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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is greeted by Col. John Shafer after arriving to greet troops at Forward Operating Base Shukvani, Afghanistan, Wednesday, March 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Scott Olson, Pool)
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During a prayer ceremony on Tuesday, March 13, 2012, an Afghan holds an empty illumination canister that residents of Panjwai, Afghanistan, claim was used during Sunday's killing of civilians, allegedly by a U.S. soldier. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
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Afghan Interior Minister Bismillah Mohammadi (right) walks with U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to the interior ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 14, 2012. (Associated Press)
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Actor George Clooney responds March 14, 2012, to questions at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Sudan and South Sudan. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Actor George Clooney (right) responds March 14, 2012, to questions at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Sudan and South Sudan. To his right are John Prendergast (center), co-founder of Satellite Sentinel Project and Enough Project, and Jonathan Temin, director of the United States Institute of Peace's Sudan program. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Afghan villagers pray during a ceremony on Tuesday, March 13, 2012, for the victims of Sunday's killing of 16 civilians allegedly by a U.S. soldier in Panjwai, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A young woman carries a water canister to make bricks for her new house in a camp for internally displaced people in North Darfur, Sudan. Severely injured and disfigured 10 years ago by the long-running violence in the region of the African nation, she is trying to rebuild her life with her sister in the refugee camp.
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An Afghan security guard keeps watch Tuesday as villagers listen to a speech by an Afghan official. They are part of a delegation attending a prayer ceremony for civilian victims in a killing spree Sunday, possibly by a U.S. soldier, in Kandahar province. (Associated Press)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 and released by the United Nations African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), Kaltoum Yakoub Issa, 19, carries a water jerry can to make bricks for her new house in Abu Shouk camp for internally displaced people (IDP) in North Darfur, Sudan. (AP Photo/UNAMID, Albert Gonzalez Farran)
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** FILE ** In this Jan. 9, 2011 file photo, George Clooney stands outside a polling station in Juba, then capital of southern Sudan. Actor and human rights activist George Clooney made a quiet visit to a volatile border region between Sudan and South Sudan last week, ahead of testimony he's giving before a U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday, March 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Pete Muller, File)
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Bary Mike, an Israeli store owner, cleans up after a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip by Palestinian militants landed nearby in the port city of Ashdod on Tuesday. Israel halted its airstrikes against Gaza Strip militants early Tuesday and rocket fire from the Palestinian territory ebbed as a cease-fire ending four days of clashes started to take effect. (Associated Press)
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Government supporters hold a national flag during a rally against an American-backed proposed U.N. Human Rights Council resolution on alleged human rights abuses during the country's civil war, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Tuesday. (Associated Press)
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Researchers believe Giorgio Vasari's fresco bearing the words "Cerca trova" (Seek and you shall find) painted on a wall in Florence, Italy, covers Leonardo da Vinci's lost painting titled "The Battle of Anghiari." (National Geographic via Associated Press)
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**FILE** A Russian army Topol ballistic missile mounted on a mobile launcher is seen May 4, 2011, during a dress rehearsal for the 2011 Victory Day military parade. (Associated Press)
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Palestinians inspect the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, on Monday, March 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
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Syrian rebels take position during clashes with government forces in Idlib, Syria, on Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Afghans burn an effigy of U.S. President Obama during a protest in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, March 13, 2012, following Sunday's killing of civilians in Kandahar province. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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Convicted terrorism plotter Ahmed Ressam is facing a longer sentence after Monday's appeals court ruling.
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An Afghan policeman stands guard as a partner searches a taxi passenger at a police checkpoint after Sunday's killing of civilians allegedly by a U.S. soldier in Kandahar province, south of Kabul. An Afghan youth recounted Monday a terrifying scene in his home as a lone gunman moved stealthily through it on a killing spree. (Associated Press)
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The Army is investigating claims that psychiatrists at the Madigan Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord military base near Tacoma, Wash., failed to diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder in hundreds of troops. About 1,500 cases have been reviewed, and 285 of the troops will be offered re-evaluations. (Associated Press)
