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A woman casts her ballot during state elections in the town of Puerto Aventuras in Quintana Roo state, Mexico, Sunday July 4, 2010. A dozen Mexican states held elections Sunday after campaigning besieged by assassinations and scandals that have showcased the drug cartels' power, like in Quintana Roo where one of the main candidates for governor was arrested last month on charges of protecting two cartels. (AP Photo/Israel Leal)
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Tong Wei, the lawyer to American geologist Xue Feng, walks out from the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court where sentencing for Xue Feng was to take place in Beijing, China, Monday, July 5, 2010. Xue Feng, an American geologist detained and tortured by China's state security agents over an oil industry database, was jailed for eight years Monday in a troubling example of China's rough justice system and the way the U.S. government handles cases against its citizens. The court convicted Xue Feng of collecting intelligence for overseas and illegally providing state secrets. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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Jesus Ernesto Chavez, known as "El Camello," second from left, stands as he is guarded by a federal police officer during a presentation to the press, in Mexico City, Friday, July 2, 2010. According to the federal police Chavez ordered the March 13 attack that killed a U.S. consulate employee and her husband as they drove in the violent border city. The other two detained men are unidentified. (AP Photo/Carlos Jasso)
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Artist's rendering of, from left, Patricia Mills, Michael Zottoli, and Mikhail Semenko, standing, at their appearance in federal court in Alexandria, Va., Thursday, July 1, 2010. The three northern Virginia residents are accused of being foreign agents for Russia. (AP Photo/Dana Verkouteren)
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Former South African National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi, inside the Johannesburg High Court, in Johannesburg Friday, July 2, 2010. He was convicted of corruption Friday after a nation beset by crime heard months of testimony about its top cop going on designer shopping sprees with a convicted drug smuggler. (AP Photo/Werner Beukes, Pool)
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Pakistani women mourn the death of their family members in Thursday night attack in Lahore, Pakistan in Lahore, Pakistan on Friday, July 2, 2010. Two suicide bombings that killed 42 at a popular Sufi shrine in Lahore stirred outrage in this terror-scarred nation Friday. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)
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In this April 16, 2010, file photo Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, Utah Republican, listens on Capitol Hill in Washington. On Friday, July 2, Mr. Hatch said he will vote against the confirmation of President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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Forensic experts and federal police examine the body of a man that was killed by gunmen along with her 3 year-old daughter in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tueday June 1, 2010. Ciudad Juarez has become one of the deadliest cities in the world as drug gangs are fighting an ongoing battle for smuggling routes. (AP Photo)
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Afghan security forces members carry the body of a foreign security contractor inside a USAID compound in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, Friday, July 2, 2010, after it was stormed by militants wearing suicide vests. Six suicide bombers attacked the compound Friday, killing at least four people and wounding several others, officials said. (AP Photo)
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In this courtroom sketch, Tracey Lee Ann Foley, left, and her husband, Donald Heathfield, third from left, are depicted with Heathfield's attorney Peter Krupp, second from left, at a bail hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jennifer Boal, right, in federal court in Boston, Thursday, July 1, 2010. Heathfield and Foley are among 11 people accused of trying to infiltrate U.S. policymaking circles. (AP Photo/Constance Flavell Pratt)
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** FILE ** Lyle Mann, executive director of the Arizona Peace Officers Standards and Training Board, addresses the panel at an Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board hearing regarding the update on its preparation of materials to train officers to enforce the state's illegal immigration law on Wednesday, June 16, 2010, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Chicago Mayor Richard Daley speaks during a press conference, Thursday, July 1, 2010 in Chicago. Daley introduced what the city says is the most comprehensive gun ordinance in the United States. Daley said the ordinance would include a ban on gun shops in the city and prohibit guns from anywhere except inside the owner's home. That would mean owners couldn't bring a gun into a garage, yard or porch. The ordinance would bar gun ownership for anyone convicted of a violent crime or with two or more convictions for drunken driving. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 30, 2010, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on her nomination. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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This undated image taken from the Russian social networking website "Odnoklassniki," or Classmates, shows a woman who journalists have identified as Anna Chapman. Chapman, along with 10 others, was arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. attorney general. (AP Photo)
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A crowd of media photographs Juan Miguel Gonzalez and his son Elian Gonzalez as they board a private jet that took them from Dulles International Airport to Havana, Cuba, June 28, 2000. ( J.M. Eddins Jr. / The Washington Times )
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Attorney General Janet Reno speaks to reporters Friday morning, April 7, 2000 after a meeting with Juan Miguel Gonzalez about his son, Elian. ( Maya Alleruzzo / The Washington Times )
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Marisleysis Gonzalez, of Miami, Fla., cousin of Elian Gonzalez, cries as she testifies before the Senate judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 1, 2000. Gonzalez, who is caring for Elian, testified as a tug of war over the boy's fate returned to Congress. ( Daniel Rosenbaum / The Washington Times )
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Possible break-thru in the Elian Gonzalez case ... Elian supporters wait near his home Monday afternoon, April 3, 2000. ( Sean Dougherty / The Washington Times )
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A Cuban American is arrested by Miami police in the aftermath of federal agents seizing Elian Gonzalez from the Little Havana home of relatives Sat., April 22, 2000. ( Kenneth Lambert / The Washington Times )
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A Cuban American is arrested by Miami police in the aftermath of federal agents seizing Elian Gonzalez from the Little Havana home of relatives Sat., April 22, 2000. Some police (like this officer) threaten journalists with arrest for coming too close to arrests. At least one TV photographer was arrested while covering the Miami unrest. ( Kenneth Lambert / The Washington Times )
