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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Rebel fighters malign Moammar Gadhafi at a checkpoint between Tarhouna and Bani Walid, Libya. They say it is only a matter of time until he is captured or killed, a spokesman said Wednesday.
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Rebel fighters searching for Col. Gadhafiprepare ammunition at a checkpoint between Tarhouna and Bani Walid on Wednesday.
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Associated Press Turkana people wait in line to receive food from a famine-relief charity in Turkana district, Kenya, on Aug. 30. The U.N. says tens of thousands already have died in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti owing to famine.
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** FILE ** A U.S. Special Forces soldier trains troops from Senegal in combat techniques in Kati, Mali, during a joint training exercise with units from several African armies in the Sahara Desert in June 2010. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb wants to put its footprint on the Arab Spring now that violence is fueling the uprisings. (AP Photo/Alfred de Montesquiou, File)
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Rebel fighters practice shooting at a checkpoint between Tarhouna and Bani Walid, Libya, on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011. Libyan fighters have surrounded the ousted dictator Col. Moammar Gadhafi, and it is only a matter of time until he is captured or killed, a spokesman for Tripoli's new military council said. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
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Pakistani police officer walks past burning vehicle at the site of suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011. A pair of suicide bombers attacked the house of a top military officer in the southwestern city of Quetta, killing his wife and scores of other people, including soldiers, authorities said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
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Families of 9/11 victims and first responders will journey from Norfolk, Va. to the New York Harbor for the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks aboard the USS New York, which is bolstered by seven tons of recovered World Trade Center steel in her bow. (Image from US Navy)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Palestinians of means shop at the new al-Andulusia mall in Gaza City. A flurry of construction is allowing a tiny middle class to flaunt its wealth in the impoverished Gaza Strip, fueling perhaps the most acrimonious grass-roots resentment yet toward the ruling Hamas movement.
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Rebel fighters chat at a checkpoint between Tarhouna and Bani Walid, Libya, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. Col. Moammar Gadhafi is determined to fight his way back to power, the toppled dictator's spokesman said Tuesday, but a large convoy of his soldiers apparently has deserted, crossing the Libyan desert into neighboring Niger. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
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Libyan rebel fighters have positioned several outposts along the Mediterranean coast, some 37 miles south of Misrata, Libya, on Monday, Sept. 5, 2011. Troops are patrolling the coastal area to prevent incursions by Gadhafi supporters still in the towns that separate Misrata from Sirte. (AP Photo/Gaia Anderson)
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Rebel reinforcements from the Libyan capital of Tripoli celebrate as they arrive at a checkpoint between Tarhouna and Bani Walid, Libya, on Monday, Sept. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
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Rebel reinforcements from the Libyan capital of Tripoli celebrate as they arrive at a checkpoint between Tarhouna and Bani Walid, Libya, on Monday, Sept. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS MOMENT OF PEACE: A Libyan rebel prays Sunday outside an complex where rockets and shells were found. Internet postings by jihadists among the rebels reveal plotting to create an Islamic state.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Rebel fighters celebrate in the desert outside a military base near Bani Walid, Libya, on Saturday. The U.S. has stepped up surveillance of elements of the rebel forces interested in setting up an Islamist state.
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NEW YORK MAYOR'S OFFICE VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg says the 10th anniversary commemoration of the 9/11 attacks was designed with families in mind.
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Rebel fighters celebrate in the desert outside a military base near Bani Walid, Libya, on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011. More than a hundred armed vehicles left from Misrata rebel outposts Saturday morning on a mission to overtake a loyalist army ground forces base near Bani Walid, a stronghold of Col. Moammar Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Gaia Anderson)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Marine Lance Cpl. Lane Edward Morrow, of Susanville, Calif., has the early morning guard shift at a checkpoint near a patrol base in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan. The Marines living in austere conditions at the base exchange fire regularly with Taliban, who attack from multiple positions.
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VARIANCE FILMS "Amigo" looks at the plight of fighters on both sides and civilians caught up in the Philippine-American War.
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** FILE ** Roddy Morris polishes a tank at JV Northwest, a manufacturer of stainless steel vessels in Canby, Ore., on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011. (Associated Press)
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A Bahraini girl crosses the street in the midst of masked anti-government protesters in Sitra, Bahrain, on Aug. 31, 2011, hours after the death of 14-year-old Sitra protester Ali Jawad Ahmad. Bahraini security forces clashed with anti-government protesters after Wednesday morning prayers, and the teenager died after being hit by a police tear gas canisters, human rights activists said. (Associated Press)
