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Anti-government protesters celebrate in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. Egypt's military announced on national television it had stepped in to secure the country and promised protesters calling for President Hosni Mubarak's ouster that all their demands would soon be met. Tens of thousands of protesters packed in central Tahrir broke into chants of "We're almost there, we're almost there" and waved V-for-victory signs as thousands more flowed in to join them well after nightfall. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

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Anti-government protesters celebrate in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. Egypt's military announced on national television it had stepped in to secure the country and promised protesters calling for President Hosni Mubarak's ouster that all their demands would soon be met. Tens of thousands of protesters packed in central Tahrir broke into chants of "We're almost there, we're almost there" and waved V-for-victory signs as thousands more flowed in to join them well after nightfall. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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Anti-government protesters celebrate in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. Egypt's military announced on national television it had stepped in to secure the country and promised protesters calling for President Hosni Mubarak's ouster that all their demands would soon be met. Tens of thousands of protesters packed in central Tahrir broke into chants of 'We're almost there, we're almost there' and waved V-for-victory signs as thousands more flowed in to join them well after nightfall. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

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Anti-government protesters celebrate in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. Egypt's military announced on national television it had stepped in to secure the country and promised protesters calling for President Hosni Mubarak's ouster that all their demands would soon be met. Tens of thousands of protesters packed in central Tahrir broke into chants of "We're almost there, we're almost there" and waved V-for-victory signs as thousands more flowed in to join them well after nightfall. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

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Anti-government protesters celebrate in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. Egypt's military announced on national television it had stepped in to secure the country and promised protesters calling for President Hosni Mubarak's ouster that all their demands would soon be met. Tens of thousands of protesters packed in central Tahrir broke into chants of "We're almost there, we're almost there" and waved V-for-victory signs as thousands more flowed in to join them well after nightfall. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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Anti-government protesters celebrate in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. Egypt's military announced on national television it had stepped in to secure the country and promised protesters calling for President Hosni Mubarak's ouster that all their demands would soon be met. Tens of thousands of protesters packed in central Tahrir broke into chants of 'We're almost there, we're almost there' and waved V-for-victory signs as thousands more flowed in to join them well after nightfall. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

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Egyptian protesters celebrate in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. Egypt's military announced on national television it had stepped in to secure the country and promised protesters calling for President Hosni Mubarak's ouster that all their demands would soon be met. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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Egypt's Defense Minster Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi attends a meeting of the military supreme council in this image taken from TV Thursday Feb. 10, 2011. President Hosni Mubarak will meet the demands of protesters, military and ruling party officials said Thursday in the strongest indication yet that Egypt's longtime president may be about to give up power and that the armed forces were seizing control. (AP Photo/Nile TV via APTN)

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An Egyptian anti-government protester marches with a banner reading "the end" as he celebrates in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. Egypt's military announced on national television it had stepped in to secure the country and promised protesters calling for President Hosni Mubarak's ouster that all their demands would soon be met. Tens of thousands of protesters packed in central Tahrir broke into chants of 'We're almost there, we're almost there' and waved V-for-victory signs as thousands more flowed in to join them well after nightfall. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

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Cheering protesters react as high-ranking Egyptian Army Gen. Hassan El-Rueni, unseen, addresses the continuing anti-government demonstration in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt Thursday, Feb 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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Members of Egypt's military supreme council attend a meeting in this image taken from TV Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. President Hosni Mubarak will meet the demands of protesters, military and ruling party officials said Thursday in the strongest indication yet that Egypt's longtime president may be about to give up power and that the armed forces were seizing control. (AP Photo/Nile TV via APTN)

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** FILE ** Iraqis gather at the ruins of the al-Askari mosque in Samarra, Iraq, in February 2006. A car bomb killed eight pilgrims on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011, as they made their way to the reconstructed mosque, one of Iraq's holiest Shi'ite shrines. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

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Vehicles carrying coffins head to the Pakistan army training camp in Mardan near Peshawar, Pakistan, on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. A suicide bomber attacked soldiers during morning exercises at a Pakistani army training camp killing 31 troops and injuring dozens others, police and the military said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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Opium sacks, motor bikes and explosives confiscated by Afghan security forces in Kandahar are shown; allied forces are trying to make it harder for the Taliban to launch a spring offensive. (Associated Press)

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A bomb detonates on a street in Kirkuk, Iraq, on Wednesday as security forces and emergency vehicles pass along the main road on their way to attend the scene of another explosion. Car bombs ripped through the oil-rich Iraqi city killing at least six and wounding some 35 others. (Associated Press)

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A rusted car sits on blocks in run-down surroundings in Juba. Decades of war have kept southern Sudan poor and decrepit. (Associated Press)

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Security forces, emergency responders and civilians stand near a destroyed building after a car-bomb attack in Kirkuk, Iraq, 180 miles north of Baghdad, on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)

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Anti-Mubarak protesters are seen next to Egyptian army tanks and armored vehicles near Tahrir Square in Cairo on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. Protesters appear to have settled in for a long standoff, turning the square into a makeshift village with tens of thousands coming every day, with some sleeping in tents made of blankets and plastic sheeting. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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A march through the village of Whistler, British Columbia, on Saturday protests the slaughter of 100 sled dogs owned by Howling Dog Tours Whistler. The owner's claim that the dogs were old and sick is challenged. (Associated Press)

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Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her party say Western sanctions against Myanmar hurt the military junta, not the people, and should continue. (Associated Press)