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White House press secretary Jay Carney speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. Carney discussed the Syrian peace talks, security at the Sochi 2014 Olympics and other topics. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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In this Monday, Jan. 20, 2014 screen image, member of the Greek November 17 terrorist group Christodoulos Xiros makes an Internet statement posted Monday and purportedly written by him on Jan. 14 which rails against the Greek financial crisis. Xiros, a fugitive who vanished on furlough from prison while serving six life sentences for left-wing bombings and shootings has vowed a return to armed action, in a video posted Monday, Jan. 20, 2014 on the Internet. Seen in the background from left to right are portraits of Argentine Revolutionary Che Guevara, Greek Independence War heroes Georgios Karaiskakis and Theodoros Kolokotronis, and World War II Greece guerrilla resistance leader Aris Velouchiotis. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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Haitham al-Maleh, senior member of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), Syria's main political opposition group, sits alone at the opposition table during the first day of the Syrian peace talks in Montreux, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. The Syrian peace talks begin with a bitter clash over President Bashar Assad's future. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says Assad's decision to meet peaceful dissent with brutal force had robbed him of all legitimacy, while Assad's foreign minister declared that no one outside Syria had the right to remove the government. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)