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The Homeland Security Department is proposing to discontinue the color-coded terror alert system that became a symbol of the country's post-9/11 jitters and the butt of late-night talk show jokes. (AP Photo/Joe Marquette, File)
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BRINK OF WAR: South Koreans watch smoke rising from South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island near the border with North Korea on Tuesday. The North fired artillery barrages onto the island. South Korea returned fire and launched fighter jets. (Associated Press)
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A Cambodian woman looks for her missing relative at Preah Kossamak Hospital in Phnom Penh on Tuesday. The prime minister called the disaster the country's biggest tragedy since the 1970s reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge. (Associated Press)
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UN peacekeepers from Brazil are seen through a window glass as they patrol on vehicles in Cap Haitian, Haiti, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. It began as a rumor that farmers saw waste from a U.N. peacekeeping base flow into a river. Within days of the talk, hundreds downstream had died from cholera. (AP photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Municipal workers scuffle with riot police in Athens, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. Mounds of rubbish have piled up on the streets of the Greek capital, as the strike by municipal employees against wage cuts and planned layoffs of contract workers entered its fifth day Tuesday. Greece will receive the next part of its euro110 billion ($150 billion) bailout package, but still faces challenges in its reforms and must make an extra effort to meet next year's deficit targets, the IMF, ECB and EU executive said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Alkis Konstantinidis)
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A Cambodian woman looks for her missing relative at Preah Kossamak Hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. Thousands of people stampeded during a festival in the Cambodian capital, leaving at least 349 dead and hundreds injured in what the prime minister called the country's biggest tragedy since the 1970s reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
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Relatives cry at Preah Kossamak Hospital where the bodies of stampede victims are laid in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. Thousands of people stampeded during a festival in the Cambodian capital, leaving over three hundred dead and scores injured in what Prime Minister Hun Sen called the country's biggest tragedy since the 1970s reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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Victims of Monday's stampede are laid at Preah Kossamak Hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. Thousands of people stampeded during a festival in the Cambodian capital, leaving over three hundred dead and scores injured in what Prime Minister Hun Sen called the country's biggest tragedy since the 1970s reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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A Cambodian relative of a stampede victim shows the dead's identification card at Preah Kossamak Hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. Thousands of people stampeded during a festival in the Cambodian capital, leaving over three hundred dead and scores injured in what the prime minister called the country's biggest tragedy since the 1970s reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
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Relatives cry near the bodies of stampede victims laid at Preah Kossamak Hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. Thousands of people stampeded during a festival in the Cambodian capital late Monday, leaving over three hundred dead and scores injured in what Prime Minister Hun Sen called the country's biggest tragedy since the 1970s reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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Cambodian police officers stand near the barricade set up at a bridge where people stampeded during a water festival in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. Thousands of people stampeded late Monday, leaving over three hundred dead and scores injured in what Prime Minister Hun Sen called the country's biggest tragedy since the 1970s reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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The bodies and belongings of Cambodians, who died in a stampede, lie on a bridge in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. Thousands of people stampeded during a festival in the Cambodian capital Monday night, leaving more than 330 dead and hundreds injured in what the prime minister called the country's biggest tragedy since the 1970s reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge. (AP Photo/Philip Heijmans)
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Houses are burned on South Korea's Yeonpyeong island near the border against North Korea, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. North Korea shot dozens of rounds of artillery onto the populated South Korean island near their disputed western border Tuesday, military officials said, setting buildings on fire and prompting South Korea to return fire and scramble fighter jets. (AP Photo/Yonhap)
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Family members of Seo Jeong-woo, a Korean marine who was killed on South Korean Yeonpyeong Island by North Korea's artillery attack, react as they arrive at a military hospital in Seongnam, South Korea, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire Tuesday after the North shelled an island near their disputed sea border, killing at least two South Korean marines, setting dozens of buildings ablaze and sending civilians fleeing for shelter in one the rivals' most dramatic military confrontations since the Korean War.(AP Photo/Yonhap).
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, during a press conference in Kabul on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, denied he ever met with a senior Taliban leader named Akhtar Mohammad Mansour. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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Cambodian police officers stand behind a barricade at the site where people stampeded during a water festival in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. Thousands of people stampeded during the festival in the Cambodian capital, leaving more than 300 dead and scores injured in what the prime minister called the country's biggest tragedy since the 1970s reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
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A South Korean soldier walks by displays of mock North Korea's Scud-B missile, back right, and other South Korean missiles at Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010. North Korea shot dozens of rounds of artillery onto a populated South Korean island near their disputed western border Tuesday, military officials said, setting buildings on fire and prompting South Korea to return fire and scramble fighter jets. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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Founder of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, poses prior to a press conference in London, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010, when WikiLeaks revealed previously secret files on the Iraq war -- the biggest leak of secret information in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Lennart Preiss)
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In this Nov. 7, 2010 photo, Khan Agha, new Afghan police recruit, center, attends a literary class at Central Training Center on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. According to the NATO training mission, only 11 percent of the enlisted personnel in the army and police can read and write, compared to 35 percent for non-commissioned officers and 93 for the officer corps. About 74 percent of the population is illiterate, but the percentage in the security forces tends to be higher since fewer educated Afghans are willing to sign up. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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In this Nov. 7, 2010 photo, new Afghan police recruits attend a literary class at Central Training Center on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. According to the NATO training mission, only 11 percent of the enlisted personnel in the army and police can read and write, compared to 35 percent for non-commissioned officers and 93 for the officer corps. About 74 percent of the population is illiterate, but the percentage in the security forces tends to be higher since fewer educated Afghans are willing to sign up. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
