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Tribesmen stand guard near the house of Sheik Sadeq al-Ahmar, the head of the powerful Hashid tribe, during clashes with Yemeni security forces in Sanaa, Yemen, on May 24, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 25, 2011. (Associated Press)

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A view of destruction caused by a suicide bombing on May 25, 2011, in Peshawar, Pakistan. A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden pickup truck leveled a police building in northwest Pakistan, killing five officers and wounding 30 other people. (Associated Press)

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FILE--Exiled Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden is seen in Afghanistan in this April 1998 file photo. U.S. authorities are investigating whether four separate cells of terrorists were involved in Tuesday's devastating attacks. At least one set of hijackers is believed to have crossed from Canada and had ties to Bin Laden, law enforcement officials said Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001. (AP Photo)

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Associated Press Locals and foreign tourists stand amid debris at the scene of a nightclub bomb blast in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, after an attack by an al Qaeda affiliate in October 2002 that killed 202 people. It remains to be seen how affiliates will be affected by Osama bin Laden's death.

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NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (left) and Afghan President Hamid Karzai have a joint press conference at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, May 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)

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Explosions illuminate the night sky during a NATO airstrike on Tripoli, Libya, early on Tuesday, May 24, 2011. The alliance's warplanes repeatedly hit the nation's capital in what appears to be the heaviest night of bombing since the start of the air campaign against Col. Moammar Gadhafi's forces. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

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In this photo released by the U.N. Mission in Sudan (UNMIS), homes burn in the town of Abyei, Sudan, on Monday, May 23, 2011. (AP Photo/UNMIS, Stuart Price)

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An Israeli Arrow interceptor anti-tactical ballistic missile is test-fired in 2007 from an undisclosed location in Israel. It and other major defense projects were developed through a U.S.-Israeli partnership. (Israel Aerospace Industries via Associated Press)

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Homes burn in Abyei, Sudan, on Monday. Armed men burned and looted the disputed oil-rich province on Monday, the U.N. mission there said. (Associated Press)

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Wal-Mart has found a new site for a store in Orange County, Va., appeasing preservationists who deemed the corporation's original site too close to the land where the Battle of the Wilderness was fought in 1864. (Associated Press)

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"By honoring its public commitment to choose an alternate site in Orange County, Wal-Mart has demonstrated that preservation groups and retailers can work together to find universally beneficial resolutions." - James Lighthizer, president of the Civil War Trust (Associated Press)

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Anti-government protesters in Sanaa, Yemen, react during a demonstration on May 23, 2011, demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. (Associated Press)

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A Pakistani army commando mans a checkpoint while others check vehicles after an attack by militants on a naval aviation base in Karachi, Pakistan, on May 23, 2011. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** This undated photo reportedly shows the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar. (AP Photo/File)

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Signs and boxes mock Israeli checkpoints as pro-Palestinian demonstrators make known their displeasure with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Civilians and security forces gather at the scene of a car-bomb attack in Baghdad on Sunday. A rapid-fire series of explosions in Baghdad as Iraqis were going to work on Sunday morning killed and wounded scores of people, police said.

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Afghan policemen and U.S. and Afghan soldiers are on alert near the police traffic department building, which was under attack by insurgents in Khost, Afghanistan, on Sunday, May 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Nishanuddin Khan)

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Iraqis clean up at the scene of a car bombing in Baghdad on Sunday, May 22, 2011. A rapid-fire series of explosions in and around the city as residents were going to work on Sunday morning killed 16 and wounded scores more, police said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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Pakistani tribesmen carry a casket of a victim of NATO oil tanker explosion for a funeral prayer in Landi Kotal near Afghan border in Pakistan on Saturday, May 21, 2011. A tanker carrying oil for NATO forces in Afghanistan exploded Saturday in northwestern Pakistan as people tried to siphon off some of its fuel, an official said. (AP Photo/Qazi Rauf)