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Police and SWAT members assault a tourist bus to rescue hostages at Manila's Rizal Park Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. Rolando Mendoza, a dismissed policeman armed with automatic rifle, seized the bus with 25 people aboard, mostly foreign tourists in a bid to demand reinstatement, police said. Mendoza was killed along with an undetermined number of hostages. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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An Afghan soldier stands guard over arrested Taliban suspects and confiscated arms and ammunition at a police compound in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi)
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Hostages peer from the window of a tourist bus during a standoff at Rizal Park Monday Aug. 23, 2010, in Manila, Philippines. Former Police Senior Inspector Rolando Mendoza, a dismissed policeman armed with automatic rifle, seized the bus in Manila Monday with 25 people aboard, mostly foreign tourists in a bid to demand reinstatement, police said. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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Federal police officers examine one of their vehicles after it crashed during a gunbattle in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Saturday. At least one gunman was killed and three police officers were injured. (Associated Press)
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he decided to ban private security firms in his country because they were contributing to corruption. (Associated Press)
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Demonstrators in favor of the proposed Islamic center near ground zero march on Church Avenue in Lower Manhattan on Sunday. Opponents and supporters of the Islamic cultural center were separated by barricades and police officers as both groups rallied. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS "We continue to see development ... in their ability to conduct operations," Gen. Raymond T. Odierno said of the Iraqi army.
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** FILE ** Hard-line Islamist al-Shabab fighters conduct a military exercise in the northern Suqaholaha neighborhood of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Al-Shabab, which is linked to al Qaeda, is reported to have started ordering parents in the country's south to give a boy from every household to the militants to boost the militia's ranks. Childless families are being forced to pay the militants $50 a month. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)
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U.S. soldiers shield themselves from the rotor wash of a medevac helicopter as it takes off with patients in the Zhari district of Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan on Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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** FILE ** El Paso police officers lookout into the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez after a heavy gun battle erupted in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Raymundo Ruiz)
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In this June 7, 2009, file photo originally released by the USO, comedian Stephen Colbert, from the Comedy Central television program, "The Colbert Report," us shown during a taping the first of four shows in front of U.S. soldiers at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq. COLBERT will broadcast two special episodes of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" to celebrate the end of combat operations in Iraq and to honor returning troops.(AP Photo/USO, Steve Manuel, file)
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U.S. Army Capt. Mark Fisher, left, leans down to kiss his daughter Madeline, 2, as he sits to have lunch with her and another daughter after arriving at nearby Joint Base Lewis-McChord the evening before Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010, in DuPont, Wash. Fisher had just returned from a nearly one-year tour in Iraq, his second there. Seven years and five months after the U.S.-led invasion, the last American combat brigade was leaving Iraq, well ahead of President Barack Obama's Aug. 31 deadline for ending U.S. combat operations there. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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The last in a convoy of U.S. Army Stryker armored vehicles leave Iraq at the Khabari border crossing into Kuwait, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. The U.S. Army's 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division is the last combat brigade to leave Iraq as part of the drawdown of U.S. forces. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)
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In this Dec. 2, 2009, file photo, U.S. soldiers patrol through the heart of Kabul, Afghanistan. A majority of Americans see no end in sight in Afghanistan, and nearly six in 10 oppose the nine-year-old war as President Obama sends tens of thousands more troops to the fight, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)
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An Afghan Army soldier watches for threats as two simultaneous firefights take place outside the wire at the Afghan and U.S. Forward Operating Base Howz-e-Madad, operated by the U.S. 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, in Zhari district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. The 101st Airborne's 2-502 and their Afghan Army partners operate in a district which, as the birthplace of the Taliban movement, continues to hold many well-armed fighters, and a support network which provides the fighters with improvised explosives and safe havens. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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An Afghan Army soldier in a guard tower watches as an improvised explosive device blows up during a battle outside the wire at the Afghan and U.S. Forward Operating Base Howz-e-Madad, operated by the U.S. 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, in Zhari district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. The 101st Airborne's 2-502 and their Afghan Army partners operate in a district which, as the birthplace of the Taliban movement, continues to hold many well-armed fighters, and a support network which provides the fighters with improvised explosives and safe havens. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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An Afghan National Police officer covered in the blood of his wounded comrade watches as he is loaded into an ambulance by U.S. Army medics and Afghan soldiers for transport to a helicopter landing zone, during an ongoing firefight outside the wire of the Afghan and U.S. Forward Operating Base Howz-e-Madad, operated by the 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, in Zhari district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. The 101st Airborne's 2-502 and their Afghan Army partners operate in a district which, as the birthplace of the Taliban movement, continues to hold many well-armed fighters, and a support network which provides the fighters with improvised explosives and safe havens. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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An Afghan soldier wounded in an ongoing firefight is loaded into a U.S. Army, 101st Airborne Division, Task Force Destiny medevac helicopter, at the Afghan and U.S. Forward Operating Base Howz-e-Madad, operated by the the 101st's 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, in Zhari district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. The 101st Airborne's 2-502 and their Afghan Army partners operate in a district which, as the birthplace of the Taliban movement, continues to hold many well-armed fighters, and a support network which provides the fighters with improvised explosives and safe havens. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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American and Afghan soldiers turn away from the dusty rotor wash as an Afghan soldier and police officer wounded in an ongoing firefight are evacuated by a U.S. Army, 101st Airborne Division, Task Force Destiny medevac helicopter, at the Afghan and U.S. Forward Operating Base Howz-e-Madad, operated by the the 101st's 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, in Zhari district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. The The 101st Airborne's 2-502 and their Afghan Army partners operate in a district which, as the birthplace of the Taliban movement, continues to hold many well-armed fighters, and a support network which provides the fighters with improvised explosives and safe havens. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Afghan Army soldiers pictured during a lull in a battle outside the wire at the Afghan and U.S. Forward Operating Base Howz-e-Madad, operated by the U.S. 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, in Zhari district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. The 101st Airborne's 2-502 and their Afghan Army partners operate in a district which, as the birthplace of the Taliban movement, continues to hold many well-armed fighters, and a support network which provides the fighters with improvised explosives and safe havens. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
