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Viktor Bout, a suspected Russian arms dealer, is led to a court room at the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. An appeals court backed a U.S. request to extradite the elusive Russian businessman dubbed "The Merchant of Death." (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
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Viktor Bout, a suspected Russian arms dealer, is escorted by prison officials as he arrives at the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. An appeals court granted a U.S. request to extradite the elusive Russian businessman dubbed "The Merchant of Death." (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
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Viktor Bout, a suspected Russian arms dealer, left, walks past newsmen as he arrives at the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. An appeals court in Thailand ordered Mr. Bout's extradition to the United States. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
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Viktor Bout, a suspected Russian arms dealer, speaks with reporters from inside the court cell at the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. An appeals court in Thailand ordered Mr. Bout's extradition to the United States. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
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In this Aug. 20, 2009, file photo, hundreds of Libyans welcome Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, top left, as he is accompanied by Seif al-Islam el- Gadhafi, son of Libyan leader Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi upon his arrival at airport in Tripoli, Libya, after Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
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Viktor Bout, a suspected Russian arms dealer, listens to reporter's questions from inside a court cell at the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. An appeals court in Thailand ordered his extradition to the United States on Friday. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS From right, former New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens, lawyer Charles Scheeler and his former personal trainer Brian McNamee, are sworn-in before Mr. Clemens' hearing on drug use in 2008. Mr. Clemens was indicted on charges of lying to Congress.
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An inmate and his son embrace after the closing recital of the summer camp. Thirty of North Branch's 1,470 inmates applied to participate in the summer program.
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** FILE ** Clarence Butterfield listens to opening statements at his murder trial on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010, in Santa Ana, Calif. On Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010, an Orange County jury found Butterfield guilty of first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon, and also found true special circumstances of murder with mayhem and murder with torture. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Michael Goulding)
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In a photo taken from video, Cynthia Parker, a juror in the federal corruption trial of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, speaks to reporters on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010, outside her home in Gurnee, Ill. Ms. Parker said she doesn't feel the case is finished and recommends a second trial. She said charges related to the alleged sale of President Obama's former Senate seat had the strongest evidence. (AP Photo/Mark Carlson)
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Mourners pay their respects to former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens during funeral services at the Anchorage Baptist Temple Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010, in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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In this Oct. 22, 2004, file photo, a Pakistani woman prays after the first Friday prayers of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan at a mosque in Lahore, Pakistan. An Australian Muslim woman who sought permission to keep her face and head covered while she gives evidence at an upcoming trial was told by a judge Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010, she would have to remove her veil. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)
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Mourners pay their respects to former Sen. Ted Stevens during funeral services at the Anchorage Baptist Temple on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010, in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Former Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich talks with reporters as he leaves his home with daughter Annie on Wednesday. The failure to win conviction on more charges in Blagojevich's case is another setback in a string of recent corruption cases.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Shaquan Duley, 29, who was charged Tuesday with two counts of murder, arrives in court in Orangeburg, S.C., on Wednesday. Probers say she confessed to killing the toddlers by suffocating them.
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Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich talks to the media at the Federal Court building, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, in Chicago. A federal jury found Blagojevich guilty on Tuesday of one count of lying to federal agents, and the judge said he intended to declare a mistrial on the more serious remaining 23 counts. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich talks to the media at the Federal Court building, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, in Chicago, next to his wife Patti. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (L), with his wife Patti, talks to reporters after being found guilty on one count in his 24 count federal corruption indictment in Chicago on August 17, 2010. Blagojevich was found guilty of lying to federal agents, but the judge said he intended to declare a mistrial on the other 23 more serious counts. UPI/Brian Kersey
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** FILE ** Sam Adam Jr. (right) and Sam Adam Sr., attorneys for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, talk to reporters after Blagojevich was found guilty on one count in his 24-count federal corruption indictment in Chicago on Aug. 17, 2010. Blagojevich was found guilty of lying to federal agents, but the judge said he intended to declare a mistrial on the other 23 more serious counts. (UPI/Brian Kersey)
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Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich stands on the porch of his home on the north side of Chicago after being convicted on one of 24 counts in his federal corruption trial on Tuesday Aug. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Eric Y. Exit)
