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South Korean human rights activists stage a rally demanding release of American Aijalon Mahli Gomes in North Korea, in front of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Korea Representative Office in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, July 26, 2010. The rally marked six month after Mr. Gomes was arrested in North Korea on Jan. 25. Mr. Gomes was sentenced in April to eight years of hard labor and fined $700,000 for entering the country illegally and for an unspecified "hostile act." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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A South Korean human rights activist holds up a defaced portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il during a rally demanding release of American Aijalon Mahli Gomes in North Korea, in front of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Korea Representative Office in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, July 26, 2010. The rally marked six month after Mr. Gomes was arrested in North Korea on Jan. 25. Mr. Gomes was sentenced in April to eight years of hard labor and fined $700,000 for entering the country illegally and for an unspecified "hostile act." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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Chum Mey reacts outside the court hall after a verdict was handed down to Kaing Gek Eav, alias Duch, former S-23 prison commander, at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal l in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, July 26, 2010. The tribunal sentenced the former Khmer Rouge chief jailer Monday to 35 years in prison _ the first verdict involving a leader of the genocidal regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodia's people. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks during a press conference in London on Monday, July 26, 2010, during which he said he believes there is evidence of war crimes in the thousands of pages of leaked U.S. military documents relating to the war in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Lizzie Robinson, PA)
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In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, who ran the notorious Toul Sleng, a top secret detention center for the worst "enemies" of the state, looks on during his sentencing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, July 26, 2010. The U.N.-backed tribunal has found the former Khmer Rouge chief jailer guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and ordered him to serve 19 years in prison. (AP Photo/ Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)
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In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, who ran the notorious Toul Sleng, a top secret detention center for the worst "enemies" of the state, looks on during his sentencing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, July 26, 2010. The U.N.-backed tribunal has found the former Khmer Rouge chief jailer guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and ordered him to serve 19 years in prison. (AP Photo/ Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)
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In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, spectators watch the sentencing of Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, who ran the notorious Toul Sleng, a top secret detention center for the worst "enemies" of the state, at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, July 26, 2010. The U.N.-backed tribunal found the former Khmer Rouge chief jailer guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and ordered him to serve 19 years in prison. (AP Photo/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)
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Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, who ran the notorious Toul Sleng, a top secret detention center for the worst "enemies" of the state, appears on a television screen of the press center of the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, July 26, 2010. The tribunal opened Monday to hand down a verdict in the first trial of a senior member of the Khmer Rouge regime that turned Cambodia into a vast killing field three decades ago. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
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Cambodian victim Hong Savath, right, 47, weeps after a verdict was handed down to Kaing Gek Eav, alias Duch, former S-23 prison commander, at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, July 26, 2010. The tribunal sentenced the former Khmer Rouge chief jailer Monday to 35 years in prison, the first verdict involving a leader of the genocidal regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodia's people. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
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Chum Mey reacts outside the court hall after a verdict was handed down to Kaing Gek Eav, alias Duch, former S-23 prison commander, at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal l in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, July 26, 2010. The tribunal sentenced the former Khmer Rouge chief jailer Monday to 35 years in prison _ the first verdict involving a leader of the genocidal regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodia's people. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
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In this July 22, 2010 photo, Cambodian villagers tour the Tuol Sleng genocide museum, former Khmer Rouge S-23 prison, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. A war crimes tribunal convicted and sentenced the Khmer Rouge's chief jailer Monday July 26, 2010, for overseeing the deaths of up to 16,000 people, in the first verdict involving a senior member of the "killing fields" regime that devastated a generation of Cambodians. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
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** FILE ** Abdul Kadir, a former member of the Guyanese Parliament, arrives at the Magistrates' Court in downtown Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, in 2007 for an extradition hearing. A New York jury is hearing closing arguments in a terrorism case in which Mr. Kadir and another man are accused of plotting to blow up John F. Kennedy International Airport. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)
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** FILE ** Sam Adam Jr., defense lawyer for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, talks to the media on Wednesday, July 21, 2010, in Chicago after the defense rested without calling any witnesses in Mr. Blagojevich's corruption trial. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)
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In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, who ran the notorious Toul Sleng, a top secret detention center for the worst "enemies" of the state, looks on Monday during his sentencing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The U.N.-backed tribunal has found the former Khmer Rouge chief jailer guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and ordered him to serve 19 years in prison. (Associated Press/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)
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Fired Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod is contemplating a lawsuit against blogger Andrew Breitbart for an edited video of her that he posted. (Associated Press)
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Democratic Rep. Charles B. Rangel, left, speaks to reporters during a news conference Friday, July 23, 2010, in New York. Rangel, once among the most powerful members of Congress, will face a hearing on charges of violating House ethics rules after a panel of his peers formally accused him of wrongdoing Thursday. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Democratic Rep. Charles B. Rangel, left, speaks to reporters during a news conference Friday, July 23, 2010 in New York. Rangel, once among the most powerful members of Congress, will face a hearing on charges of violating House ethics rules after a panel of his peers formally accused him of wrongdoing Thursday. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Torrie Emery appears in a video arraignment in Pontiac, Mich. on Friday July 23, 2010. Torrie Emery was charged with second-degree murder, assault and child abuse in a fatal car crash stemming from a dispute on the social networking site Facebook. Police say the 23-year-old woman had her 3-year-old daughter in the car Wednesday afternoon when she rammed a car being driven by Alesha Abernathy of Pontiac. Police said Abernathy's car hit a dump truck while being chased. (AP Photo/The Oakland Press, Vaughn Gurganian)