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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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Police subdue a demonstrator during clashes 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. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Police subdue a demonstrator during clashes 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 Berlusconi's residence. Premier 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. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi reacts at the end of his speech at the lower chamber in Rome, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010. Premier Silvio Berlusconi urged lawmakers Monday to support him in looming confidence votes, warning that bringing down his government would be "folly" because stability is essential as the country battles an economic crisis. Fighting for his political survival, the Italian leader appealed to a group of rebel lawmakers who have vowed to try to oust him during Tuesday votes. (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. Premier 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. Premier 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, 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)
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Demonstrators, background, clash with police in Rome's Piazza del Popolo Square on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010. Premier 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 Berlusconi's residence. Premier 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. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Demonstrators, background, clash with police in Rome's Piazza del Popolo Square, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010. Premier 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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Muslim pilgrims leaving the Grand Mosque after a prayer, during the annual Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. The U.S. government sued a suburban Chicago school district on Monday, Dec. 13, 2010, for denying a Muslim teacher leave to go on the pilgrimage. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Supporters of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, hold posters with his photo during a protest in front of the British Embassy in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. WikiLeaks has been under intense pressure since it began publishing thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables, who is now in a British jail fighting extradition to Sweden on alleged sex crime charges.(AP Photo )
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A police officer looks on as a car is removed from outside the house which was searched by British police in Luton, England, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010. A Swedish prosecutor says police are "98 percent" certain the Stockholm suicide bomber is 28-year-old Taimour Abdulwahab who is a Swedish citizen but also lived several years in Britain. Prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand Monday said Abdulwahab has his roots in the Middle East and has been a Swedish citizen since 1992. Lindstrand said Abdulwahab was also the registered owner of the car that exploded in Stockholm shortly before the suicide blast Saturday. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)
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A police officer cordons off the area before a car, center, is removed from outside the house which was searched by British police in Luton, England, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010. A Swedish prosecutor says police are "98 percent" certain the Stockholm suicide bomber is 28-year-old Taimour Abdulwahab who is a Swedish citizen but also lived several years in Britain. Prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand Monday said Abdulwahab has his roots in the Middle East and has been a Swedish citizen since 1992. Lindstrand said Abdulwahab was also the registered owner of the car that exploded in Stockholm shortly before the suicide blast Saturday. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)
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The media gather as a police officer walks outside the house which was searched by British police in Luton, England, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010. A Swedish prosecutor says police are "98 percent" certain the Stockholm suicide bomber is 28-year-old Taimour Abdulwahab who is a Swedish citizen but also lived several years in Britain. Prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand Monday said Abdulwahab has his roots in the Middle East and has been a Swedish citizen since 1992. Lindstrand said Abdulwahab was also the registered owner of the car that exploded in Stockholm shortly before the suicide blast Saturday. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)
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Mounted police officers check a bag in Stockholm Monday Dec. 13, 2010 security has been stepped up in the Swedish capital after Saturdays suicide bomb attack.(AP Photo/ Fredrik Sandberg)
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Head of Swedish Security Police, SAPO, security department Anders Thornberg, left, and Chief prosecutor Thomas Linstrand, right, talk to the media during a press conference Monday Dec. 13, 2010 in Stockholm. A Swedish prosecutor says police are "98 percent" certain the Stockholm suicide bomber is 28-year-old Taimour Abdulwahab who is a Swedish citizen but also lived several years in Britain. Lindstrand Monday said Abdulwahab has his roots in the Middle East and has been a Swedish citizen since 1992. Lindstrand said Abdulwahab was also the registered owner of the car that exploded in Stockholm shortly before the suicide blast Saturday. (AP Photo/Pontus Lundahl)
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Sama Sarsour from Swedish Muslims for Peace and Justice (SMFR) participates in a peace demonstration at Sergels square in central Stockholm Sunday Dec. 12, 2010 . Swedish police said Sunday that two explosions in central Stockholm were an act of terrorism, in what appeared to be the first attack in the Nordic country by a suicide bomber. The suspect, who was not named, killed himself and injured two people on a busy shopping street Saturday. (AP photo/Scanpix Sweden/Marc Femenia)
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Kosovo's Prime Minister and leader of Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) Hashim Thaci gestures at his supporters celebrating victory in capital Pristina on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010. Thaci has claimed victory in Kosovo's first general election since the province declared independence from Serbia, as an independent exit poll showed his Democratic Party of Kosovo 6 percentage points ahead of its rivals. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
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Leader of Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK, Hashim Thaci joined by his wife Lumnije, gives a thumbs up as he casts his ballot in general elections in Kosovo's capital Pristina on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010. Kosovars vote in the first general poll since the country's declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008, a critical election already marred by ethnic tension that many fear will split the world's newest country.(AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
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Leader of Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) Hashim Thaci, gestures, after casting his ballot during the general elections, in Kosovo capital Pristina on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010. Kosovars vote in the first general poll since the country's declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008, a critical election already marred by ethnic tension that many fear will split the world's newest country. Some 1.6 million voters are eligible to vote for 29 political parties, coalitions and citizens' initiatives to enter Kosovo's 120-seat parliament. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
