War_Conflict

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FILE - In this May 20, 2010 file photo, British model Naomi Campbell arrives for the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS benefit, during the 63rd Cannes international film festival, in Cap d'Antibes, France. Judges at the Special Court for Sierra Leone have rejected Wednesday Aug. 4, 2010 a final protest from Charles Taylor, clearing the way for model Naomi Campbell to testify at his war crimes trial. Taylor's lawyer had objected to Campbell testifying, arguing that the prosecution had not provided a summary of her likely testimony.(AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)

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An Iraqi army soldier on top of an armored vehicle stands guard at the scene of an attack on a checkpoint in Baghdad on Tuesday, Aug 3, 2010. Suspected al-Qaida militants killed 5 Iraqi soldiers in the brazen dawn attack and planted the terror group's black banner before fleeing the scene, officials said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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U.N. peacekeepers gesture as Israeli troops patrol the border fence in the southern border village of Adaisseh, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Lebanon and Israeli troops exchanged fire on the border Tuesday in the most serious clashes since a fierce war four years ago, and Lebanon said at least two of its soldiers were killed in shelling, authorities said. (AP Photo/Lutfallah Daher)

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A Lebanese soldier holds his rifle as Israeli troops patrol the border fence in the southern border village of Adaisseh, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Lebanon and Israeli troops exchanged fire on the border Tuesday in the most serious clashes since a fierce war four years ago. (AP Photo/Lutfallah Daher)

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A vehicle burns after being set on fire by protesters following the killing of a local leader of the Muttahida Quami Movement, in Karachi, Pakistan, on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. More than 40 people were killed in revenge attacks. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

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An Indian policeman fires tear-gas shells to disperse protesters during a demonstration defying a curfew in Humhamma, on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. Government troops fired at thousands of people protesting Indian rule over the country's portion of Kashmir on Monday. (AP Photo)

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President Obama speaks about Iraq and Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, at the Disabled American Veterans national convention in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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This undated frame grab image taken from files made available by IntelCenter and taken from a video posted on a pro-rebel Web site Wednesday March 31, 2010, purports to show Chechen militant leader Doku Umarov. The leader of Chechnya's separatist militants, who claimed responsbility for the Moscow subway bombings that killed 40 people in March, has announced in a purported video posted on YouTube on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010, that he is stepping down. (AP Photo/IntelCenter, File)

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President Obama speaks about Iraq and Afghanistan , Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, at the Disabled American Veterans national convention in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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** FILE ** This is a Friday April 2, 2004 file photo of British diplomat Peter Ricketts, at NATO headquarters in Brussels. Mr. Rickett's who became Britain's first national security adviser is to leave his post, the government confirmed Monday, Aug. 2. 2010, less than three months after the official took up the newly created role. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, file)

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An Iraqi police officer uses a bomb detector at a checkpoint in central Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. Two bombings and a drive-by shooting killed eight people Monday, a reminder of Iraq's ongoing instability on a day when President Obama planned to outline progress toward the impending end of U.S. military operations in the country.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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A U.S. soldier helps an Afghan army soldier, one of two wounded in a rocket-propelled grenade attack, to an evacuation helicopter in the Arghandab district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, on Monday Aug. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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Retired Israeli Gen. Giora Eiland speaks to reporters at Israel's Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, July 12, 2010. Gen. Eiland headed an internal military investigation committee that concluded Monday that flawed intelligence gathering and planning led to the deadly botched raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla on May 31. On Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, the Israeli government announced it will work with a United Nations investigation into the incident. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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In this photograph made on Thursday, July 29, 2010, upon landing after a helicopter rescue mission, Tech. Sgt. Jeff Hedglin, right, an Air Force Pararescueman, or PJ, drapes an American flag over the remains of the first of two U.S. soldiers killed minutes earlier in an IED attack, assisted by fellow PJs, Senior Airman Robert Dieguez, center, and 1st Lt. Matthew Carlisle, in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. July 2010 was the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly 9-year Afghan War. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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** FILE ** The Red Sea resort city of Eilat, Israel, is pictured in 2007. On Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, a series of explosions was heard in Eliat, a popular tourist destination, and Israeli police confirmed that the blasts were caused by rockets. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

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Public demonstrations drew 1,000 protesters to Bell City Hall last week. Protesters called for the resignation of the part-time City Council members who approved the six-figure salaries of officials, and who themselves received high pay after holding a 2005 special election to make Bell a charter city. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS LOSING HEARTS AND MINDS: During a protest in Kabul on Sunday, hundreds of Afghans carry posters of civilians said to have been killed by U.S. and NATO forces.

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech in Grenoble, France, on Friday, July 30, 2010. Mr. Sarkozy said in the address that he wants to revoke the French citizenship of immigrants who endanger the lives of police officers. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)