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An Afghan boy pushes his wheelbarrow past oil tankers parked near the Afghan-Iran border at Islam Qala, on the outskirts of Herat, Afghanistan, west of Kabul, on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. Iran's decision to stop up to 2,500 fuel trucks at its border with Afghanistan is tantamount to an "embargo," an Afghan commerce official said Tuesday, as others warned the move could leave millions of Afghans shivering as winter rolls in. (AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi)
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Pro-separation activists hold signs and chant pro-independence slogans outside the Juba airport in Southern Sudan, where Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir arrived on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. Southerners will commence voting in an independence referendum on Sunday, the outcome of which will determine whether the south secedes to form the world's newest country. (AP Photo/Pete Muller)
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011, during a gathering to mark the seventh anniversary of the adoption of the Afghanistan Constitution. The writing behind him says, "Welcome to the adoption day of Afghanistan's Constitution." (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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UNDER ARREST: Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov displays a protocol paper as he is escorted to court in Moscow. (Associated Press)
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called Army Pfc. Bradley Manning a "political prisoner." The secrets-spilling website founded by Mr. Assange was used to leak more than 150,000 downloaded State Department cables. (Associated Press)
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Illustration: Light bulb by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times
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Dead birds lie on the ground after being thrown off the roof of a home by a worker with United States Environmental Services LLC in Beebe, Ark. Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011. Wildlife officials are trying to determine what caused more than 3,000 blackbirds to die and fall from the sky over the Arkansas town. (AP Photo/The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Stephen B. Thornton)
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Workers with United States Environmental Services LLC collect dead birds from the back yard of a home in Beebe, Ark. Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011. Wildlife officials are trying to determine what caused more than 3,000 blackbirds to die and fall from the sky over the Arkansas town. (AP Photo/The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Stephen B. Thornton)
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Chaudary Shujjat Hussain, center, talks to media after meeting with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, left, as former Chief Minister of Punjab's province Pervez Ellani, right, looks on, in Lahore, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. Mr. Gilani tried to keep his government from collapsing after a key party said it was quitting the ruling coalition, leaving the government short of majority support in parliament. (AP Photo)
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Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani pauses during a meeting with the Pakistani National Disaster Management Authority, in Islamabad on Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. Pakistan's U.S.-allied ruling party scrambled Monday, Jan. 3, 2011, to keep its fragile coalition government in power after a party quit the coalition. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), surrounded by bodyguards, arrives at a Foreign Affairs and Security Committee meeting in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. (AP Photos/Bernat Armangue)
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D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray's grandson, Austin, 5, rests on the lap of his father, Stacy Tucker, as the new mayor delivers his inauguration speech on Sunday. Mr. Gray, a native of D.C., is the sixth elected mayor of the District, and he succeeds Mayor Adrian M. Fenty. (Rod Lamkey Jr./Special to The Washington Times)
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PASSING THE TORCH: D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray receives a hug from former Mayor Adrian M. Fenty after his inaugural address at the Washington Convention Center on Sunday. (Rod Lamkey Jr./Special to The Washington Times)
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With his daughter Jonice Gray Tucker, left, looking on, Vincent C. Gray, center, gets a hug from Eric Washington, Chief Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, after taking the oath of office of mayor. Mayor Gray, a native of D.C., is the sixth elected mayor of the District of Columbia, and succeeds Mayor Adrian Fenty. (Rod Lamkey Jr / for The Washington Times)
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Vincent C. Gray, right, joins Adrian Fenty, left, at the podium following Vincent C. Gray's taking of the oath of office as the new mayor of Washington D.C. on Sunday, January 2, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr / for The Washington Times)
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Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray delivers his inaugural address after taking the oath of office at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C., Sunday January 2, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr / for The Washington Times)
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Vincent C. Gray's grandson Austin Gray, 5, rests on the lap of his father, and Vincent Gray's son-in-law Stacy Tucker, as Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray delivers his inauguration speech at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C., Sunday January 2, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr / for The Washington Times)
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Washington D.C. Council Chairman-Elect Kwame Brown, right, confers with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder during the inauguration of Vincent C. Gray. (Rod Lamkey Jr / for The Washington Times)
