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A Bahraini anti-government protester flashes a victory sign in front a Bahraini flag at the Pearl Square in Manama, Bahrain, the Gulf nation's capital, on Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011. Bahrain's opposition leaders gathered Sunday to examine offers for talks by Bahrain's rulers after nearly a week of protests and deadly clashes. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Police officers urge people to leave from in front of a cinema that was a planned protest site in Shanghai, China, on Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011. Jittery Chinese authorities staged a show of force to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine Revolution," apparently modeled after pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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Smoke rises from the Kabul Bank branch in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, east of Kabul, on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011, after gunmen wearing explosives vests stormed the bank as government employees were waiting to be paid. Authorities said 38 people were killed. (AP Photo/Shir Shah Hamdard)
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A wounded anti-government demonstrator is helped by other demonstrators after being hit by a stone thrown by Yemeni government supporters during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen, on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011. Hundreds of Yemenis began demonstrating early in the morning Saturday outside the university in Sanaa, demanding the ouster of the country's longtime ruler as they marched toward the Justice Ministry. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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** FILE ** In this Tuesday, June 10, 2008, file photo, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, facing, embraces Tunisia's then President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali at an Arab mini-summit, in the capital Tripoli, Libya. Libyan special forces stormed a two-day-old protest encampment in the country's second largest city of Benghazi, clearing the area early Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011, said witnesses, as a human rights group estimate scores of people have died in the harsh crackdown on days of demonstrations. (AP Photo/Abdel Meguid Al-Fergany, File)
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Bahraini cleric chants slogans at the Pearl roundabout soon after the military pulled out in Manama, Bahrain, on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011. The deputy chief of Bahrain's armed forces has ordered the military to withdraw from the streets of the capital. Army tanks are moving out of Manama's Pearl Square as Bahrain's monarchy seeks to open negotiations with protesters. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Afghan police man stand near guard near the wreckage of a suicide attackers vehicle in Khost, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Feb, 18, 2011. A suicide bomber detonated a car rigged with explosives in the eastern Afghan city of Khost Friday morning, killing at least eight people and injuring scores of others, police said. (AP Photo/ Nishanuddin Khan)
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A funeral procession for Mahmoud Maki Abu Taki, 22, who died during clashes between Bahraini anti- government and riot police early Thursday, moves slowly through the streets in Sitra village, Bahrain, Friday, Feb. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Supporters of the Yemeni government chant slogans during clashes with anti-government demonstrators in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. Police opened fire on protesters during clashes in a southern Yemeni port, killing two people, in the first known deaths in six days of Egypt-style demonstrations across the country's biggest cities, demanding the ouster of the president, a key U.S. ally in battling al Qaeda. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
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Yemeni anti-government demonstrators (top right) and government supporters hurl stones at each other during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen, on Thursday, the seventh day of protests. (Associated Press)
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Bahraini women wait outside a hospital Thursday in Manama, Bahrain, where victims of the confrontation between anti-government protesters and riot police were being treated. (Associated Press)
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A wax figure of President George W. Bush is part of an American presidents exhibit at Madame Tussauds wax museum. The background shows scenes from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorism attacks. (Associated Press)
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Children peer from a doorway at a women's charity organization in Kandahar. Security has been difficult to maintain in the war-torn city, despite the longtime presence of NATO troops. (Associated Press)
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A private security guard does his best to keep the peace in a vulnerable neighborhood of Kandahar, Afghanistan. Many in the impoverished city say they still feel insecure, even after 10 years of NATO presence in the capital of the province that's the birthplace of the Taliban. (Associated Press)
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Bahraini women cry outside a hospital in capital Manama Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011, where victims of the confrontation between anti-government protesters and riot police were being treated. Armed patrols prowled neighborhoods and tanks appeared in the streets for the first time after riot police with tear gas and clubs drove protesters from a main square where they had demanded sweeping political change.(AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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A supporter of the Yemeni government prepares to hurl a stone at anti-government demonstrators during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. Police opened fire on protesters during clashes in a southern Yemeni port, killing two people, in the first known deaths in six days of Egypt-style demonstrations across the country's biggest cities, demanding the ouster of the president, a key U.S. ally in battling a Qaeda. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
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Iraqi riot police officers prevent anti-government protesters from entering the Basra provincial headquarters during a demonstration in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. Hundreds of Iraqi demonstrators massed in the southern city of Basra to demand the ousting of the local governor, a day after a similar anti-government protest sparked violence that killed a few people. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
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Protesters sit on the ground in front of the provincial headquarters building in Kut, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. On Wednesday about 2,000 stone-throwing demonstrators attacked local government offices, setting fire to some buildings, including the governor's house. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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Iraqi protesters chant anti-government slogans in front of Kut's provincial headquarters building Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. On Wednesday about 2,000 stone-throwing demonstrators attacked local government offices, setting fire to some buildings, including the governor's house. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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Iraqi riot police officers prevent anti-government protesters from entering the Basra provincial headquarters during a demonstration in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. Hundreds of Iraqi demonstrators massed in the southern city of Basra to demand the ousting of the local governor, a day after a similar anti-government protest sparked violence that killed a few people. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
