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FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013, Lebanese people gather at the scene where two explosions have struck near the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. DNA tests confirmed that a man in Lebanese custody is the suspected leader of an al-Qaida-linked group that has claimed responsibility for bombings across the Middle East, the Lebanese army said Friday, Jan. 3, 2014. The latest attack claimed by the group, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, was the Nov. 19 double bombing of the Iranian Embassy in Beirut that killed at least 23 people and wounded dozens. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

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Mourners and Sunni gunmen chant slogans against Iraq's Shiite-led government during the funeral of a man killed when clashes erupted between al-Qaida gunmen and Iraqi army soldiers on Friday, his family said, in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014. Provincial spokesman Dhari al-Rishawi said Iraqi security forces and allied tribesmen are pressing their campaign to rout al-Qaida from Fallujah and Ramadi, two main cities in the western Anbar province. (AP Photo)

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In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, displaced people walk to find an unoccupied patch of ground where they can rest after arriving by river barge from Bor, some of the thousands who fled the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in Bor by boat across the White Nile, in the town of Awerial, South Sudan. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, a man unloads food assistance supplied by the international Red Cross which arrived in the morning by truck to help the thousands who fled the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in Bor by boat across the White Nile, in the town of Awerial, South Sudan. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, people displaced by the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in Bor, queue for medical care at a clinic run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) set up in a school building in the town of Awerial, South Sudan. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, displaced people arrive by river barge from Bor, some of the thousands who fled the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in Bor by boat across the White Nile, in the town of Awerial, South Sudan. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, displaced people walk to find an unoccupied patch of ground where they can rest after arriving by river barge from Bor, some of the thousands who fled the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in Bor by boat across the White Nile, in the town of Awerial, South Sudan. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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FILE- In this Nov. 22, 2000 file photo, Broward County, Fla. canvassing board member Judge Robert Rosenberg examines a challenged vote at the Broward County Emergency Operations Center in Plantation, Fla. The 2000 presidential election was decided in Florida by 537 votes after the U.S. Supreme Court halted recounts. The election increased rancor between the two major parties and highlighted deficiencies in the nation's voting infrastructure. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

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FILE- In this file photo taken April 22, 2000, in Miami, Elian Gonzalez is held in a closet by Donato Dalrymple, one of the two men who rescued the boy from the ocean, right, as government officials search the home of Lazaro Gonzalez for the young boy. The boy was eventually reunited with his father in Cuba, but the ordeal put a spotlight on bitter relations between the U.S. and Cuba. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)

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FILE-In this Nov. 2, 2010, file photo, Republican Senator-elect Marco Rubio hugs his mother Oria after thanking supporters in Coral Gables, Fla. To the left is his wife Jeanette and daughter Amanda. Rubio is a tea party favorite and is often talked about as a potential 2016 presidential candidate. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)

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A park ranger brushes a light dusting of snow from an overnight storm from the sidewalks near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington early Friday morning Jan. 3, 2014. After a storm blew through the Washington region overnight, roads are being cleared and many schools systems are closed. The federal government and the District of Columbia government will be open Friday, but workers have the option to take leave or telework. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

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President Barack Obama greets people on the tarmac before boarding Air Force One at Honolulu Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, in Honolulu, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014, as he travels back to Washington after their annual family vacation. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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President Barack Obama waves to various Hawaii dignetaries before boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam to return to Washington Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014, in Honolulu. The President along with his family spent the last two weeks vacationing in Kailua, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)

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President Barack Obama waves to various Hawaii dignitaries before boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam to return to Washington, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014, in Honolulu. The President along with his family spent the last two weeks vacationing in Kailua, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)

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President Barack Obama waves as he boards Air Force One at Honolulu Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, in Honolulu, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014, as they travel back to Washington after their annual family vacation. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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A Bangladeshi woman puts her thumb print to receive a ballot paper before casting her vote at a polling station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014. Voting has started in Bangladesh for general elections Sunday that threaten to deepen the crisis in the South Asian nation. The opposition and its allies are boycotting the vote, a move that undermines the legitimacy of the election and makes it unlikely that the polls will stem a wave of political violence that killed at least 275 people in 2013. (AP Photo/ Rajesh Kumar Singh)

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Bangladeshi women stand in a queue to cast their votes at a polling station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014. Police fired at protesters and more than 100 polling stations were torched in Sunday’s general elections marred by violence and a boycott by the opposition, which dismissed the polls as a farce. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)

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Bangladeshi army soldiers patrol on a street during election, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014. Police in Bangladesh fired at protesters and more than 100 polling stations were torched in Sunday's general elections marred by violence and a boycott by the opposition, which dismissed the polls as a farce. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)