Politics

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** FILE ** In this Sept. 10, 2010, file photo Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Randy Babbitt speaks in Washington. Babbitt has been charged with driving while intoxicated following a weekend traffic stop in northern Virginia. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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Smoke and dust rises at the scene of a suicide bomb attack Tuesday that killed 56 during a Muharram procession outside the Abul Fazl shrine in Kabul, Afghanistan. "It was a very powerful blast. ... Everyone was crying, shouting," said Mahood Khan, who is in charge of the shrine near the presidential palace. "It is a disaster." (Associated Press)

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Palestinian Muayad Abdel Samed, 50, works at the construction site of his house in the West Bank village of Anabta. Mr. Samed, who spent half his life behind bars for killing an Israeli border police officer, is building his house with an $8,000 government grant. (Associated Press)

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during her speech on human rights issues in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Dec 6, 2011. Making an unusually strong statement in defense of gay rights, Clinton says they are equal to women's rights and racial equality and should be universal human rights. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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Israeli military attache Joseph Alon poses with daughters Rachel (foreground), Yael (center) and Dalia outside their home in Chevy Chase, Md., in 1973, the year he mysteriously was shot to death in his driveway. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Alon family)

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Rachel Alon-Margalit (left) and her older sister Yael Alon-Rosenshain, daughters of Israeli air force military attache Joseph Alon, who was killed outside their Chevy Chase home in 1973, are pictured at the home of a friend as they prepare for the screening of a documentary on the case. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)

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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson walks into the U.S. District Courthouse in Greenbelt, Md., on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011, for his sentencing after being found guilty for corruption in a pay-to-play scandal. Also pictured is his lawyer Billy Martin, left. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson walks into the U.S. District Courthouse in Greenbelt, Md., on Dec. 6, 2011, for his sentencing after being found guilty for corruption in a pay-to-play scandal. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson walks into the U.S. District Courthouse in Greenbelt, Md., on Dec. 6, 2011, for his sentencing after being found guilty for corruption in a pay-to-play scandal. Also pictured is his lawyer Billy Martin, left. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson walks into the U.S. District Courthouse in Greenbelt, Md., on Dec. 6, 2011, for his sentencing after being found guilty for corruption in a pay-to-play scandal. Also pictured is his lawyer Billy Martin, left. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Former Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson walks out of the U.S. District Courthouse in Greenbelt, Md. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks on human rights issues in Geneva on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton attends a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson (third from right) walks into the U.S. District Courthouse in Greenbelt on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011, for his sentencing after being found guilty of corruption in a pay-to-play scandal. Billy Martin, his lawyer, is at left. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Two Syrian refugees children who fled violence in their country flash a V for victory sign while their faces faces are decorated with the Syrian revolution flag and Arabic words read:"Syria, The freedom," during a demonstration in front of the International Committee of the Red Cross office, in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, on Friday Nov. 25, 2011. (AP Photo)

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Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani gives an interview to the Associated Press at his residence in Lahore, Pakistan, on Monday, Dec. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, joined by German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (right), speaks during a conference of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool)

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Russian Communist Party supporters hold flags with the party colors and emblem during a demonstration in Moscow on Monday, Dec. 5, 2011, to protest the official results of parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel responds to questions at a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011, about the possibility that Standard & Poor's may downgrade the credit ratings of 15 eurozone countries, including Germany's. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)