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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)
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William Farley (second from left) fires a mortar at Fort Johnson, near Fort Sumter, in Charleston, S.C., on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, to commemorate the moment the first shots of the Civil War were fired 150 years ago. (AP Photo/Alice Keeney)
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Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired 150 years ago, is viewed from Fort Johnson in Charleston, S.C., on Tuesday, April 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Alice Keeney)
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Civil War re-enactors fire a 21-gun salute at Fort Johnson, near Fort Sumter, in Charleston, S.C., on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, to commemorate the moment the first shots of the Civil War were fired 150 years ago. (AP Photo/Alice Keeney)
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Jacob Borror (left) shares a grit cake with his father, Matt Borror, as they portray U.S. Army soldiers guarding Fort Sumter on Monday, April 11, 2011, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/The Post and Courier, Grace Beahm)
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** File ** At a Civil War reenactment event, a man holds a Confederate naval jack flag as he looks toward Fort Sumter from the Battery in downtown Charleston, S.C., on April 12, 2011, to mark the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. (Associated Press)
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Reinforcements of Libyan rebel fighters move toward the front line as they pass through the western gate of the recaptured city of Ajdabiya, Libya, on Monday, April 11, 2011. The Libyan rebel council rejected a cease-fire proposal presented by an African Union delegation because it did not provide for the departure of Col. Moammar Gadhafi, the Libyan leader, and his top associates. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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An Afghan laborer works at the brick factory in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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** FILE ** In this image made from television, demonstrators march in Daraa, Syria, Friday, April 8, 2011. Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Daraa on Friday, a city in the south of Syria that has become a flashpoint for anti-government demonstrations. (AP Photo)
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A woman lights a candle at an entrance to the Oktyabrskaya station of Minsk subway in downtown on Tuesday, April 12, 2011. Belarusian authorities said Tuesday they have identified a suspect in a subway bombing as the death toll rose to 12, with more than 200 wounded. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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An African Union delegation meets with Libyan rebel leaders at the Tibesty Hotel in Benghazi, Libya, on Monday, April 11, 2011. The AU delegation took its cease-fire proposal to the rebels' eastern stronghold and was met with protests by crowds opposed to any peace until the country's longtime leader, Col. Moammar Gadhafi, gives up power. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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A cameraman films a tank belonging to pro-Gadhafi forces as it burns on the outskirts of Ajdabiya, Libya, on Sunday, April 10, 2011. Libyan rebels said NATO airstrikes helped them drive Col. Moammar Gadhafi's forces out of the hard-fought eastern city of Ajdabiya, which is the gateway to the opposition's stronghold. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Libyan rebel fighters fire rockets in the desert between Ajdabiya and Brega on Saturday. The rebels said NATO airstrikes Sunday helped them drive Col. Moammar Gadhafi's forces out of Ajdabiya, the gateway to the opposition's stronghold.
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Followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, seen in the poster at center, wave Iraqi flags Saturday during a rally in Baghdad marking the eighth anniversary of the fall of the Iraqi capital to American troops. (Associated Press)
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Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi greets supporters in Tripoli on Sunday as envoys from the African Union, including South African President Jacob Zuma, arrived for two days of talks with Col. Gadhafi and rebel leaders. The African Union repeated its call for a cease-fire. (Associated Press)
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Libyan rebel fighters fire rockets in the desert between Ajdabiya and Brega on Saturday. The rebels said NATO airstrikes Sunday helped them drive Col. Moammar Gadhafi's forces out of Ajdabiya, the gateway to the opposition's stronghold. (Associated Press)
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Vietnamese and foreign audiences come to the concert named "Bob Dylan - Live in Vietnam," a one night only show held at RMIT University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on Sunday, April 10, 2011. After nearly five decades of singing about a war that continues to haunt a generation of Americans, legendary performer Bob Dylan is finally getting his chance to see Vietnam at peace. (AP Photo/Le Quang Nhat)
