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An Israeli member of the Women of the Wall organization prays outside a police station after Anat Hoffman, not pictured, the chairwoman of their organization, was detained outside the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City, Monday, July 12, 2010. Ms. Hoffman was arrested for carrying a biblical scroll at a Judaism's holiest site on Monday in contravention of an Israeli high court ruling that bars women from carrying the holy texts in the area of the Western Wall, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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An Israeli member of the Women of the Wall organization prays outside a police station after Anat Hoffman, not pictured, the chairwoman for their organization, was detained outside the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City, Monday, July 12, 2010. Ms. Hoffman was arrested for carrying a biblical scroll at a Judaism's holiest site on Monday in contravention of an Israeli high court ruling that bars women from carrying the holy texts in the area of the Western Wall, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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Israeli and international members of the Women of the Wall organization pray at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City, Monday, July 12, 2010. Anat Hoffman, the chairwoman for the Women of the Wall, was arrested for carrying a biblical scroll at a Judaism's holiest site on Monday in contravention of an Israeli high court ruling that bars women from carrying the holy texts in the area of the Western Wall, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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Anat Hoffman, center, chairwoman of the Women of the Wall organization, holds on to a Torah scroll as Israeli police attempt to take it from her and detain her outside the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, Monday, July 12, 2010. Ms. Hoffman was arrested for carrying a biblical scroll at Judaism's holiest site on Monday, in contravention of an Israeli high court ruling that bars women from carrying the holy texts in the area of the Western Wall, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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In this April 12, 2010, file photo top administration counter-terror deputy John Brennan addresses reporters during a briefing with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, right, in Washington. The Obama administration's recent move to drop references to Islamic radicalism in order to build relations with Muslim nations is drawing fire in a new report warning the decision ignores the role religion can play in motivating terrorists. Explaining the shift, Mr. Brennan said terror leaders "play into the false perception that they are religious leaders defending a holy cause, when in fact they are nothing more than murderers, including the murder of thousands upon thousands of Muslims." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a religious ceremony in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Saturday, July 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
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Laura Pollan speaks with hospitalized dissident Guillermo Farinas on the phone after Cuba's Roman Catholic Church said that the government has agreed to free 52 political prisoners and allow them to leave the country in Havana on Wednesday, July 7, 2010. Ms. Pollan is the leader of Ladies in White, an organization made up of wives and mothers of political prisoners, and her husband Hector Maseda is one of the 52 people expected to be released. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)
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Iraqi security forces are seen on the street as Shi'ite pilgrims head to the Imam Moussa Kadhim shrine, on the final day of the annual commemoration of the saint's death, in the Shi'ite district of Kazimiyah in Baghdad, Thursday, July 8, 2010. Hundreds of thousands of devout Shi'ites from across the country walk to Baghdad to take part in the occasion. Iraqi officials say a handful of have been killed by bombs targeting pilgrims taking part in the final day of the Shi'ite religious holiday, a day after scores of pilgrims were killed Wednesday in a suicide attack as they passed through a Sunni neighborhood.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Churchgoers sing during a service at Barataria Baptist Church in Lafitte, La. Pastor Eddie Painter in the fishing village told his congregation recently that a silver lining in the otherwise disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill might be renewed government commitment to restoring the region's battered coastal marshlands.
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A statue of Saint Fermin, center, is carried during a procession on the saint's day in Pamplona, Spain, Wednesday, July 7, 2009. The fiestas 'Los San Fermines' held since 1591, attract tens of thousands of foreign visitors each year for nine days of revelry, morning bull-runs and afternoon bullfights. (AP Photo/Ivan Aguinaga)
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Rudi Odeh-Ramadan, of New York, speaks in support of a group planning a proposed mosque near ground zero in New York. Three separate plans to build Muslim worship centers in the city have raised issues from some community members. (Associated Press)
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An instructor teaches Detroit Public Schools parents skills to help their children in school. (Associated Press)
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A military honor guard escorts the casket of Sen. Robert Byrd, Tuesday, July 6, 2010, after a funeral service at the Memorial Baptist Church in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Linda Davidson, Pool)
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, talks with Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., during a funeral service for Sen. Robert Byrd, Tuesday, July 6, 2010, at the Memorial Baptist Church in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Linda Davidson, Pool)
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From second from left, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, Sharon Rockefeller, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and others, attend a funeral service for Sen. Robert Byrd, Tuesday, July 6, 2010, at the Memorial Baptist Church in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Linda Davidson, Pool)
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From right to left, West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., his wife Sharon, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and others, attend a funeral service for Sen. Robert Byrd, Tuesday July 6, 2010, at the Memorial Baptist Church in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Linda Davidson, Pool)
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A funeral service for Sen. Robert Byrd, Tuesday, July 6, 2010, at the Memorial Baptist Church in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Linda Davidson, Pool)
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Marjorie Ellen Moore speaks at a funeral service of her father Sen. Robert Byrd, Tuesday, July 6, 2010, at the Memorial Baptist Church in Arlington, Va. Byrd will be buried in Columbia Gardens Cemetery in Arlington next to his wife Erma. Byrd died last week, he was 92. ( AP Photo/Linda Davidson, Pool)
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Military recessional after the funeral service for Sen. Robert Byrd, Tuesday, July 6, 2010, at the Memorial Baptist Church in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Linda Davidson, Pool)
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A joint-services military honor guard carries the casket of Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., Tuesday, July 6, 2010, after a funeral service at the Memorial Baptist Church in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
