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In this Oct. 28, 2007, file photo, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force tanks rumble during a military parade, marking the 57th anniversary of the founding of the Japan Self-Defense Forces at Asaka Base, north of Tokyo. Japan should refocus its defense strategy on the rise of China and not on the Cold War threat of Russia, according to new guidelines announced Friday Dec. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, File)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Shiite men walk in a massive procession Thursday in Nabatieh, Lebanon. Many cut themselves with swords or lash themselves with chains to mourn the seventh-century death in battle of the beloved Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson.
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Then-Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, in Pristina on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. (AP Photo / Visar Kryeziu) ** FILE **
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Shi'ite Muslims touch a horse, a symbol of Imam Hussein's horse that carried him through a battlefield, to pay tribute during a Muharram procession in Lahore, Pakistan, on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. Muharram is observed around the world for ten days as mourning in remembrance of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
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Paramilitary soldiers stand guard near the the Muharram procession in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. Muharram is observed around the world for ten days as mourning in remembrance of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
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An Afghan soldier stands guard near a burnt out tanker which was carrying NATO fuel in the Behsud district of Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. Officials said they believed a bomb had gone off inside or near the truck, sparking the fire. No one was injured. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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Associated Press Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates addresses U.S. troops while visiting Forward Operating Base Howz-E-Madad in Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Dec. 8.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Southern army officers in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state in Sudan on Saturday peer into a bomb crater created from one of the bombs dropped by the northern Sudanese army on a southern army base in the disputed border zone of Kiir Adem, where southern Sudan meets Darfur. The northern Sudanese army has launched a series of aerial bombardments in this disputed zone over the past month, and the southern army says it will not respond to these provocations in order to protect the rights of southern Sudanese to participate peacefully in their January independence referendum.
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Sudan People's Liberation Army Col. Wieu Pal Padiet Deng, one of the top southern army officers in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state, holds remnants of munitions dropped by the northern Sudanese army on Kiir Adem on Saturday. Officials in the Khartoum-based north deny bombing areas under southern control and instead say southern officials are hosting Darfur rebels.
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Protesters throw Molotov cocktails in Athens on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010, as hundreds of demonstrators clashed with riot police across the center city, smashing cars and sending Christmas shoppers fleeing during a massive labor protest against the crisis-hit government's austerity measures. (AP Photo/Alkis Konstantinidis)
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In an image taken from TV, an ambulance attends the scene of a bomb blast in Chahbahar, Iran, on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010. Two suicide bombers blew themselves up near a mosque in the southeastern Iranian city near the Pakistan border, and the explosions killed at least of 38 people at a Shi'ite mourning ceremony, state media reported. (AP Photo/Press TV)
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, 76, hasn't openly designated a favorite to succeed him, but insists it doesn't matter because he's not planning to step down anytime soon. (Associated Press)
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, 76, hasn't openly designated a favorite to succeed him, but insists it doesn't matter because he's not planning to step down anytime soon. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Palestinian children, one masked and waving a green Islamic flag, sit near a photo of Gaza's Hamas prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, during a rally to mark the 23rd anniversary of the group's founding, in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Majed Hamdan)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Israeli President Shimon Peres, right, stand with a representative of the Palestinian Authority, name not known, as he accepts a certificate of appreciation and award for Palestinian help in fighting the wildfires at the Carmel forest in northern Israel, during a ceremony in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010. Another ceremony to honor the Palestinian firefighters was canceled Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010, when most of the Palestinians did not get their permits to enter Israel. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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A mounted police officer checks a bag in Stockholm on Monday, Dec. 13, 2010, after an increase in security in the Swedish capital following Saturday's suicide bomb attack. (AP Photo/Fredrik Sandberg)
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Demonstrators, background, clash with police in Rome's Piazza del Popolo Square, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi won back-to-back votes of confidence in the Italian parliament Tuesday to survive one of the toughest tests of his political life. But he was left with a razor-thin majority that will make it hard for him to govern effectively. As lawmakers cast their votes, a violent core of anti-Berlusconi protesters outside clashed with police, smashing shop windows, setting cars on fire and hurling firecrackers, eggs and paint. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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Demonstrators clash with police in Rome, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010. Outside parliament, thousands of students, some of them downing beers as they marched, smashed shop windows, destroyed bank ATMs and set at least three vehicles on fire. At one point they even entered a bank, prompting staffers to try to barricade themselves inside. Police fired tear gas as the protesters neared Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's residence. Mr. Berlusconi won back-to-back votes of confidence in the Italian parliament Tuesday to survive one of the toughest tests of his political life. But he was left with a razor-thin majority that will make it hard for him to govern effectively. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Demonstrators, background, clash with police in Rome's Piazza del Popolo Square on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi won back-to-back votes of confidence in the Italian parliament Tuesday to survive one of the toughest tests of his political life. But he was left with a razor-thin majority that will make it hard for him to govern effectively. As lawmakers cast their votes, a violent core of anti-Berlusconi protesters outside clashed with police, smashing shop windows, setting cars on fire and hurling firecrackers, eggs and paint. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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Demonstrators run away from tear gas during scuffles with police in Rome, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi won back-to-back votes of confidence in the Italian parliament Tuesday, but he was left with a razor-thin majority that will make it hard for him to govern effectively. In the second and most dramatic of the tests, Mr. Berlusconi survived a no-confidence motion in the lower house by just three votes. The tense session was briefly interrupted as lawmakers pushed and shoved each other, while outside parliament protesters hurling firecrackers, eggs and paint scuffled with police. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
