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Libyan rebel fighters drive by a previously destroyed tank belonging to Col. Moammar Gadhafi's forces as the rebels make their way to the front line on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, Libya, on Wednesday, April 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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On Tuesday, April 19, 2011, rebels in Benghazi, Libya, carry the coffin of a comrade who they said was killed by forces loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi during fighting in Brega. (AP Photo)
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, welcomes Libyan National Transitional Council's Mustapha Abdeljalil at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, Wednesday, April 20, 2011. France's government said Wednesday it will send a small number of military liaison officers to Libya to work with opposition forces, but no ground troops. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS CIA Director Leon Panetta says it's possible to reveal certain World War I-era spying techniques now because the old methods have been far outpaced by advances over the years.
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WAR-WEARY: The escalation of violence has led to protests like this one in Mexico City this month that drew thousands of participants. (Associated Press)
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Mexican federal police and army soldiers guard a U.S. Embassy vehicle after it came under attack by gunmen on a highway between Mexico City and Monterrey in February. A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was killed and another wounded in the attack. Many of Zetas' targets have been Mexican military and police personnel, but in recent years, U.S. law enforcement authorities also have come under attack. (Associated Press)
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Children rioted in the streets of Goma demanding the promised free education from the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Whether or not they escaped the pull of militias that followed the official end of Second Congo War, they have grown up seeing violence as the solution to unmet demands. (Lindsay Branham/Special to The Washington Times)
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A Mai-Mai child soldier, recently demobilized by the United Nations, says he has nothing to do now and is considering a return to fighting. It is a decision many may make if not offered an alternative. (Lindsay Branham/Special to The Washington Times)
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A protester attacks ATMs amid a clash in Istanbul on Tuesday between Kurdish demonstrators and Turkish police. The main Kurdish party threatened to boycott Turkey's upcoming election because some Kurdish candidates will be barred. (Associated Press)
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Egyptians chant slogans as they protest the government in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Friday, April 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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A Yemeni police officer holding posters of a demonstrator killed by security forces last March, shouts slogans during a demonstration by anti-government protestors demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, on Sunday, April 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Workmen prepare a Grad rocket launcher for operation at a Libyan rebel weapons workshop and training camp in Benghazi, Libya, on Tuesday, April 19, 2011. The rebels are hard at work training new recruits and making operational the mostly decades-old captured heavy weapons that Col. Moammar Gadhafi forces left behind, but the rebels are struggling to overpower the better-trained and -equipped forces they are facing in the eastern desert. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Syrians pray in Clock Square in the center of Homs, Syria, the nation's third-largest city, in this photo taken on Monday, April 18, 2011, by a citizen journalist with a cellphone camera and acquired by the AP. Security forces fired tear gas and live ammunition Tuesday at hundreds of anti-government protesters who had taken over the square. (AP Photo)
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Associated Press Morgan Barfield carries her grandfather's World War II-era American flag across what is left of her grandmother's home in Colerain, N.C., Monday after a tornado.
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A Libyan rebel fighter reads his Koran next to a tank of the pro-Gadhafi forces that was destroyed near Ajdabiya, Libya. The loyal forces have changed their tactics since NATO airstrikes began. (Associated Press)
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An Iraqi soldier secures the scene of a suicide car bomb in Baghdad on Monday, April 18, 2011. Bombers detonated two explosives-packed cars outside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, killing at least 9 people and wounding 23, police said. (AP Photo)
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** FILE ** Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, here in 2004 with U.S. troops in Iraq. (Associated Press)
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A Libyan rebel fighter armed with a rocket propelled grenade launcher looks down the road toward the front line on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, Libya, on Saturday, April 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Female anti-government protesters gesture while chanting slogans during a demonstration in Sanaa, Yemen, on Sunday, April 17, 2011, to demand the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The country's anti-government movement took up the issue of women's rights in the conservative Muslim nation as thousands of demonstrators seeking the president's ouster denounced his comments against the participation of women in protest rallies. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Two Afghan boys walk near the military base (background) where a suicide bomber wearing an Afghan security-forces uniform blew himself up at the entrance in the eastern Afghan province of Laghman, killing NATO and Afghan soldiers, on Saturday, April 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
