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Marine Sgt. Gary Stein has criticized President Obama on his Facebook page, which is titled Armed Forces Tea Party. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Sgt. Gary Stein)
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Civilians walk past tires set afire in support of mutinying soldiers in Bamako, Mali, on Wednesday, March 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Harouna Traore)
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A French SWAT-style police officer arrives Wednesday near the building where the suspect in a series of killings was holed up in Toulouse, France. After a pre-dawn raid erupted into a firefight, French riot police pressed for his surrender. (Associated Press)
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Family members of Ahmed Mohammed, 34, who was killed in a car bombing, load his coffin onto a vehicle before burial in Najaf, Iraq, on Tuesday, March 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)
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Marine Gen. John Allen tells skeptical lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, March 20, 2012, that the war in Afghanistan is winding down. (Associated Press)
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Troops in Afghanistan have few opportunities to rest, according to an Army report that provides a stark look at post-traumatic stress disorder and its risk of irrational acts. Fighting forces have endured frequent stressful deployments and compressed time back home. (Associated Press)
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People inspect the scene of a car-bomb attack in Kirkuk on Tuesday. Bombings and shootings in eight cities across Iraq killed 46 and wounded more than 200 as Baghdad prepared to host this year's summit of the Arab world's top leaders. (Associated Press)
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Clashes between Syrian rebels and President Bashar Assad's security forces damaged this apartment building in the Mazzeh neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, on Monday, March 19, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)
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Marine Gen. John R. Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, March 20, 2012, before the House Armed Services Committee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Mourners attend the funeral of victims of a suicide bombing in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, March 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)
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** FILE ** Afghan prison security personnel march at the opening ceremony for the newly refurbished Pol-i-Charki prison in Kabul, Afghanistan, in March 2007. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)
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A man stands at the scene of a car-bomb attack in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, on Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Officials say attacks across Iraq have killed and wounded scores of people in a spate of violence that was expected in the days before Baghdad hosts the Arab world's top leaders. (AP Photo)
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Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, leader of Allied forces in World War II, was one of the few "political outsiders" who made it to the White House. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Airline passengers go through the Transportation Security Administration security checkpoint at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta on Aug. 3, 2011. (Associated Press)
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In this undated photo made available by the driver accompanying Italian tourists, abducted Italian tourist Paolo Bosusco eats a meal at an undisclosed location in India. Maoist rebels have abducted two Italian men in a poor eastern Indian state and demanded that the state government stop all anti-Maoist operations in return for their release, police and the rebels said Sunday, March 18, 2012. (AP Photo)
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Followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr chant anti-Iraqi government slogans and wave Iraqi flags during a protest March 19, 2012, in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad. Followers of the anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, seen on the poster, are demanding better living conditions in Iraq on the ninth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of their country. (Associated Press)
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This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows a damaged building after an explosion ripped through a residential neighborhood in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on March 18, 2012. The state news agency said it was a "terrorist bombing." (Associated Press/SANA)
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Destroyed cars on Sunday litter the area near the Syrian aviation intelligence department in Damascus. Bombs struck government targets in the Syrian capital early Saturday, killing security forces and civilians and leaving pools of blood and carnage in the streets, according to state-run television. (Associated Press)
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An Occupy Wall Street demonstrator is directed to step back from the scene of an arrest Saturday in New York by a police officer, after a march marking six months since the movement's founding. Protesters lack consensus on what the group's focus should be going forward. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A former private security guard (left) hands over his weapon to Jamal Abdul Naser Sidiqi, head of the Afghan Public Protection Force, during a transition ceremony Thursday of private security forces to Afghan Public Protection Force on the outskirts of Kabul. The Afghan government is giving companies extensions ranging from a few weeks to 90 days.
