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Saad Saif, 25, gets a tattoo done by Mohammed Abass, 28, in Baghdad. He is one of many young Iraqis who have adopted the ways of some of the U.S. soldiers who have been in their country for eight years. For them, rap music, tattoos and American slang are part of what the departing forces are leaving behind. (Associated Press)
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Security forces inspect the scene of a bomb attack in Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. Three bombs went off in a popular open-air market Thursday evening, killing and wounding scores of people, police said. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
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A wounded protestor is carried from the site of clashes with security forces in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
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A boy looks at Egyptian Army soldiers standing guard atop a concrete block barricade on the street between Tahrir Square and the interior ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011. Police and protesters demanding that Egypt's ruling military council step down are observing a truce after five days of deadly street battles in which dozens have died. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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Riad al-Asaad heads a group of Syrian army defectors responsible for attacks against the regime. The Free Syrian Army (FSA) holds no territory, appears largely disorganized and is up against a fiercely loyal and cohesive military that will stop at nothing to protect the regime. (Associated Press)
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Accusing newly independent South Sudan of arming anti-Khartoum rebels, Sudanese President Omar Bashir (left) warned: “We are ready to teach you another lesson.” South Sudan President Salva Kiir (right) responded, saying Gen. Bashir's accusation are only to justify “his pending invasion.” (Associated Press)
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South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, speaks at a joint news conference with President Omar al-Bashir, not seen, at the airport in Khartoum, Sudan, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011. The president of South Sudan made his first official visit to Khartoum since the south broke away to form an independent country earlier this year. South Sudan became officially independent from the north on July 9, breaking away after more than 50 years of on-and-off war. (AP Photo/Abd Raouf)
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A protester gestures to Egyptian riot police during clashes near Tahrir Square in Cairo on Nov. 23, 2011. (Associated Press)
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An Egyptian boy holds two Molotov cocktails during clashes with Egyptian riot police, unseen, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Mohammed Abu Zaid)
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Protesters demonstrate during clashes with Egyptian riot police near Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square on Tuesday. Concessions by the ruling military on turning over power to a civilian government were immediately rejected by protesters, who threatening a "second revolution." (Associated Press)
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In this photo taken Monday, Nov. 21, 2011, a Somali government soldier provides security for visiting media near Dolo in Somalia. (AP Photo/Jason Straziuso)
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Rep. Kim Seon-dong of the opposition Democratic Labor Party (center bottom) is blocked Nov. 22, 2011, by a security officer as National Assembly Vice Speaker Chung Eui-hwa (center seated) covers his face after Kim exploded tear gas to try to block the passage of a bill on ratification of a South Korea-U.S. free trade agreement at the National Assembly in Seoul. (Associated Press)
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A protester runs to throw a tear gas canister away during clashes with the Egyptian riot police near Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner announced new sanctions against Iran on Monday for the purpose of pressuring Tehran to halt its suspected nuclear weapons program. The Treasury Department also named the Central Bank of Iran as a primary money-laundering "concern." (Associated Press)
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A protester stands on top of a burned car during clashes with Egyptian riot police, unseen, in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Monday. Security forces fired tear gas and clashed with several thousand protesters in the third straight day of violence that has killed at least two dozen people and has become the most sustained challenge yet to the rule of Egypt's military. (Associated Press)
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Protesters confront police in a vehicle spraying water during a protest Friday in Santiago demanding education reform.
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Protesters move away from tear gas fired by Egyptian riot police during clashes near Tahrir Square in Cairo on Nov. 21, 2011. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah is seen in Beirut on June 2007. (Associated Press/Hezbollah Media Office)
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**FILE** Protesters throw stones at Egyptian riot police in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Nov. 21, 2011. Police are clashing for a third day in Cairo's central Tahrir Square with stone-throwing protesters demanding the country's military rulers quickly transfer power to a civilian government. (Associated Press)
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Jose Pimentel (right), 27, represented by attorney Joseph Zablocki (left), is arraigned at Manhattan criminal court in New York on Nov. 20, 2011. Pimentel, an "al Qaeda sympathizer" accused of plotting to bomb police and post offices in New York City as well as U.S. troops returning home, was charged with criminal possession of explosive devices with the intent to use in a terrorist manner. (Associated Press)
