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A Libyan rebel fighter takes target practice with a heavy machine gun on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, Libya, on Saturday, April 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Libyan rebel fighters load a truck with ammunition on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, Libya, Saturday, April 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008, file photo Britain's Prince William gestures as he walks across the airfield at RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire, England. Britain's monarchy has an enduring connection to the armed forces Prince William is part of the fourth successive generation to have served as a pilot. His grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, is the military's ceremonial chief and joined the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service during World War II, reaching the rank of junior commander and training as a driver. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth/file)
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A Libyan rebel fighter smokes a cigarette next to a multiple rocket launcher in the back of a pickup truck, as the rebels prepare to make an advance, in the desert on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, Libya. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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A wounded rebel fighter rides in a pickup truck taking him to an ambulance that will carry him to a hospital on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, Libya. Britain and France want more NATO airstrikes against the Libyan regime. (Associated Press)
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Family members and friends of killed Camp Ashraf residents hold pictures of the deceased as they scream slogans while protesting in front of the U.S. Embassy in Brussels on Thursday, April 14, 2011. On Friday, April 8, 2011, the Iraqi army launched a military raid on the camp that left a number of dead and injured. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to the media before meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Chancellery in Berlin on Thursday, April 14, 2011. Mrs. Clinton is in Berlin to attend a two-day meeting of NATO foreign ministers. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)
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U.S. unit commanders in Iraq devised their own counter-insurgency tactics, author James A. Russell says in a new book.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) speaks with British Foreign Secretary William Hague in the Qatari capital, Doha, at meeting of the Libya Contact Group on Wednesday, April 13, 2011. Libyan rebels are in Qatar to call for stronger international pressure on Col. Moammar Gadhafi's regime as Western and Arab envoys gather to discuss options. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)
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Delegates from the Libya Contact Group meet in Doha, Qatar, on Wednesday, April 13, 2011. Representatives of the Libyan rebels called for stronger international pressure on Col. Moammar Gadhafi's regime as Western and Arab envoys gathered to discuss options. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)
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A rebel fighter shouts to others not to flee after brief shelling landed near an ammunition dump on the outskirts of Ajdabiya. Pro-Gadhafi forces have waged a battle to retake the city, where rebels say they captured more than a dozen Algerian fighters last week.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A boy holding an opposition flag is walked back Tuesday to a checkpoint near the front line on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, Libya, for his safety by a rebel thought to be his father. A female relative brought the boy to show support.
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A rebel with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher talks with others watching the horizon for possible activity from their position in a partially destroyed restaurant on the outskirts of Ajdabiya. The rebels say Moammar Gadhafi is getting significant foreign help.
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Supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad raise posters depicting the leader as they protest against pro-reform activists. Pro-government gunmen attacked two villages in a move to crush the uprising against Mr. Assad's regime, witnesses said. (Associated Press)
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President Obama greets members of the military and their families at the White House on Tuesday after first lady Michelle Obama announced "Joining Forces," which is intended to help troops and their loved ones on multiple fronts. (Associated Press)
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Civil War re-enactors fire a 21-gun salute on Tuesday at Fort Johnson, near Fort Sumter, to commemorate the moment the first shots of the Civil War were fired 150 years ago in Charleston, S.C. (Associated Press)
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Muslim men gather at the shrine to Imam Hussein, the grandson of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Cairo, on April 4. The shrine is a leading pilgrimage site for Sufis, whose shrines have come under attack from members of the extremist Salafi movement in Egypt. (Associated Press)
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Muslim Brotherhood supporters alleging electoral fraud chant during a standoff with riot police outside a vote-counting center in Cairo in November. The Brotherhood has years of experience in contesting elections, giving it a leg up in post-Mubarak Egyptian politics. (Associated Press)
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Ernest Parks, a re-enactor from Company I, Massachusetts 54th Regiment, salutes after tossing a wreath into Charleston Harbor toward Fort Sumter (in background) on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, during the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. (AP Photo/Post and Courier, Wade Spees)
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Cannon blasts from Fort Johnson across Charleston Harbor toward Fort Sumter at daybreak on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, in Charleston, S.C., signal the commemoration of the start of the Civil War 150 years ago. (AP Photo/Post and Courier, Wade Spees)
