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Anar Gul, right, is interviewed as she sits next to the body of her grandson, allegedly killed by a U.S. service member in Panjwai, Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 11, 2012. A U.S. service member walked out of a base in southern Afghanistan before dawn Sunday and started shooting Afghan civilians, according to villagers and Afghan and NATO officials. Villagers showed an Associated Press photographer 15 bodies, including women and children, and alleged they were killed by the American. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
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An Afghan soldier speaks to civilians gathered outside a military base in Panjwai, Afghanistan, on Sunday, March 11, 2012, after a U.S. service member allegedly killed 16 Afghans, including nine children and three women. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
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The Israeli anti-missile system known as "Iron Dome" launches a rocket in Ashdod, Israel, to intercept a missile fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip on Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Dr. Ahmed Adel, an Egyptian army physician who was charged in the forced virginity-tests case on female Egyptian protesters last year, speaks during a press conference at a military court in Cairo on Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo)
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An Afghan woman gestures toward the body of a child who allegedly was killed by a U.S. service member in Panjwai, in Kandahar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
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A Free Syrian Army fighter runs for cover during fighting against government troops in Idlib, Syria, on Saturday, March 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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A Pakistani police officer examines a parked car damaged in a suicide bombing in the Badhber area on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, on Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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** FILE ** Afghan security forces shoot in the air to disperse protesters outside American military base during an anti-U.S. demonstration in Mehterlam, Laghman province east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. Afghan police fired shots in the air to disperse hundreds of protesters who tried to break into an American military base in the country's east to vent their anger over the Koran burnings incident. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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Free Syrian Army fighters take cover during fierce fighting against government troops in Idlib, north Syria, Saturday, March 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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In this June 27, 2006, file photo, reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. military guards walk within the Camp Delta military-run prison at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) ** FILE **
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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Kofi Annan, the United Nations special envoy to Syria, in Damascus, Syria, on Saturday March 10, 2012. The state-run news agency SANA reported that talks between Assad and Annan were "positive" but there were no further details on the meeting. Syrian troops pushed ahead with a new assault on the northern region of Idlib on Saturday, shelling one of the centers of the uprising against President Bashar Assad's rule and sending families fleeing for safety as armed rebels tried to fend off the attack. Thick black smoke billowed into the sky. (AP Photo/SANA)
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**FILE** Afghan detainees, seen through a mesh wire fence, prepare for noon prayers on March 23, 2011, inside the Parwan detention facility near Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. (Associated Press)
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President Nicolas Sarkozy is facing an image problem as he runs for a second term. "It's not his record. It's him. In the end, he is not loved," a senior adviser at a Paris think tank says. (Associated Press)
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An Air Force carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Lt. Col. John D. Loftis on Monday, Feb. 27, 2012, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Col Loftis, 44, of Paducah, Ky., died Feb. 25 from wounds suffered during an attack at the Afghan Interior Ministry in Kabul. (Associated Press)
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1st Lt. Robert Schmitt, shown in 1950, led a desperate U.S. hilltop assault against advancing Chinese forces in one of the bloodiest battles of the Korean War. (AP Photo/David Nelson)
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Troops of the 1st U.S. Cavalry Division land ashore at Pohang on the east coast of Korea in July 1950 during the Korean War. (AP Photo, File)
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The Maples, a 60-acre Civil War-era estate near Middleburg, Va., is on the market for $5,300,000. The home has deep front porches on the main and upper levels, and the original front door has been preserved.
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A Canadian Army soldier, mentoring the Afghan National Army, follows a training session of Afghan National Army soldiers at the Kabul Military Training Center on the outskirts of Kabul on Wednesday. The Afghan National Army will be tasked with providing security throughout Afghanistan after the last international troops pull out in 2014. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2012 file photo, Nasteho Hassan Mohyadin, 3, and her mother Farhid Ali Mohamed sit outside their small makeshift tent in a camp for those displaced by last year's famine or by conflict, in Mogadishu, Somalia. A whistleblowing report by a former Somali government official says that while tens of thousands of its citizens were dying from famine, the U.N.-backed Somali government spent only $1 million on social services despite having $58 million in revenue. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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The dusty streets of Mogadishu, Somalia, are part of the crumbling infrastructure the government is neglecting, despite $58 million in revenue last year. A report by a former Somali government official says that while tens of thousands were suffering and dying from famine, the U.N.-backed Somali government spent only $1 million on social services last year. (Associated Press)
