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"There will be tough days ahead. I have no illusions about the challenges," Gen. Allen said of his new duties. (Associated Press)
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A Cambodian police officer (right) stands near the 11th-century Hindu Preah Vihear temple, near the disputed Cambodia-Thailand border in Preah Vihear province north of Phnom Penh. The U.N.'s highest court on Monday ordered troops from both Thailand and Cambodia to immediately withdraw military forces from disputed areas around the World Heritage temple straddling their border. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** In this photo from July 9, 2009, London's Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates stands outside the force's headquarters at New Scotland Yard in London. (Associated Press)
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A heavily armed police officer stands guard at a Times Square subway station in New York on July 1, 2011. (Associated Press)
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U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the outgoing commander of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, salutes during a change-of-command ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 18, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Soldiers from New Zealand, part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, stand aside during Sunday's ceremony to hand over control to Afghan police in Bamiyan province, one of seven areas that will transfer this month. (Associated Press)
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"To Kill a Mockingbird"
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Smoke rises after a coalition airstrike against a building occupied by Taliban fighters in Kuz Kunar in Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, July 17, 2011. Afghan and NATO officials say at least 13 insurgents were killed. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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** FILE ** An Afghan man, injured in a suicide attack gestures from an ambulance in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, June 18, 2011. Men dressed in Afghan army uniforms stormed the police station near the presidential palace and opened fire said Mohammed Honayon, an eyewitness. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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Lebanese protesters burn an Iranian flag during a rally in solidarity with Syrian anti-government protesters, in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Friday, July 15, 2011. Syrian security forces fired on protesters in the capital and other major cities Friday, killing at least 14 people as hundreds of thousands gathered for some of the largest anti-government rallies since the uprising began in March, witnesses and activists said. (AP Photo)
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Libyan rebels gather around a captured tank in Kabaw, western Libya, on July 14, 2011. (Associated Press)
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People line up to stitch the National 9/11 Flag during a special ceremony Thursday at the Russell Senate Office Building. The flag is on tour countrywide to be mended in time for the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Smoke from a burning effigy of India's home minister floats by a man in Allahabad during protests Thursday of the Mumbai bombings. (Associated Press)
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Indian police officers look over debris, covered by blue tarps, at the Mumbai Opera House, one of three sites where bombings killed 18 people and wounded 131 on Wednesday. Residents reacted with anger over the lack of security. "Our life is cheap," one said. (Associated Press)
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People walk near the site of Wednesday's explosion at Dadar in Mumbai, India, Thursday, July 14, 2011. No terror group has claimed responsibility for the triple bombings that killed 17 people on Wednesday in India's financial capital, and investigators have no immediate suspects in the attacks that came without warning, the country's top security official said Thursday. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
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A security guard keeps watch at News International in Wapping, London, on July 14, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Afghan police men stand guard outside the mosque after a suicide attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on July 14, 2011. The bomber blew himself up inside the mosque during a memorial service for the assassinated half brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, killing four people, the government said. (Associated Press)
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Indian police officers stand guard behind a barricade at the site of a blast near the Opera house in Mumbai, India, early Thursday, July 14, 2011. Near-simultaneous bomb blasts rocked three busy neighborhoods during evening rush hour in India's busy financial capital Wednesday, killing 17 people in another terrorist attack on the city besieged by militants nearly three years ago. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
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People gather at the site of an explosion at Dadar in Mumbai, India, on July 13, 2011. Three explosions rocked India's busy financial capital at rush hour in what officials described as another terror strike on the city hit by militants nearly three years ago. (Associated Press)
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Sgt. James T. Hackemer, who lost both legs in a roadside bombing in the Iraq war, receives a van through Help Our Military Heroes in Beltsville, Md., in March 2011. (AP Photo/Help Our Military Heroes, Marybeth Vandergrift)
