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A paramilitary policeman rests among the debris of buildings destroyed by a mudslide that swept through the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Rescuers dug through mud and wreckage Monday searching for 1,300 people missing after flash floods and landslides struck northwestern China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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German police have sealed the door of the former al-Quds mosque, now named the Taiba mosque, in Hamburg, Germany. The mosque, which once was frequented by some of the Sept. 11 attackers, was closed Monday by authorities, who said they believed it was again a meeting place for Islamic radicals. (AP Photo/dapd/Axel Heimken)
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Radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir (center) is escorted by anti-terror police as he arrives at Indonesian police headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Mr. Bashir, once imprisoned for his links to the terror group behind the Bali bombings, was arrested Monday for alleged involvement with a new militant network. (AP Photo/Irwin Ferdiansyah)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) prepares to testify before a state-appointed inquiry commission into the Israeli naval raid on a Gaza aid flotilla in Jerusalem on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Ronen Zvulun, Pool)
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Actress Mia Farrow is seen in an image taken from TV as she testifies at the Charles Taylor war crimes trial in Leidschendam, Netherlands, on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone via APTN)
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A South Korean marine surveys the situation behind a vulcan automatic cannon during an exercise on Baengnyeong Island, northwest of Seoul near the border with North Korea, on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. South Korean troops fired artillery and dropped sonar buoys into the Yellow Sea as naval drills kicked off near the spot where a warship sank four months ago. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Seo Myung-gon)
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Carole White the former agent of model Naomi Campbell is seen in this image taken from TV smiles as she gives evidence at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, Netherlands, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. White and actress Mia Farrow testifed about a gift of uncut diamonds the former Liberian president allegedly gave model Naomi Campbell after a 1997 party. (AP Photo/Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone, Via APTN)
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REMNANTS OF WAR: A South Ossetian honor guard pays his respects at a war memorial in the village of Khetagurovo on Sunday amid the wreckage of cars burned during the brief Russia-Georgia war in August 2008. Russian troops have stayed in South Ossetia to this day. (Associated Press)
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks to Russian troops stationed at the key Black Sea port of Gudauta in Abkhazia. Mr. Medvedev pledged Sunday to provide further support to breakaway Georgian regions on the anniversary of the Russian-Georgian war. He arrived in Abkhazia to hold talks with the Kremlin-friendly separatist government. (Associated Press)
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Adnan Shukrijumah, 35, is a suspected al Qaeda operative who lived for more than 15 years in the U.S. The FBI says he has become chief of the terror network's global operations. (FBI via Associated Press)
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Former student activists and pro-democracy politicians hold a quiet religious ceremony at a Buddhist monastery in an eastern suburb of Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010, to mark the anniversary of the 1988 uprising that was brutally crushed by Myanmar's military. More than a million people rose up Aug. 8 that year to protest an entrenched military-backed regime headed by Gen. Ne Win that had wiped out the savings of many by a sudden demonetization of the currency. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)
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Iraqis evacuate a victim from the scene of an explosion in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
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In this undated photo released by David L. Evans, Tom Little, right, optometrist and team leader with the International Assistance Mission, watches as an unidentified doctor examines a patient in an Afghanistan clinic. Members of a medical team, including Tom Little, were shot and killed by militants as they were returning from providing eye treatment and other health care in remote villages in northern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the team said Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010. Tom Little, an optometrist from Delmar, New York, has been working in Afghanistan for more than 30 years, according to Dirk Frans, director of the International Assistance Mission. (AP Photo/Provided by David L. Evans)
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A Saudi customer is served in a mobile shop at a market in the capital Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. (AP Photo)
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A man walks out of the office of the International Assistance Mission on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Ten members of International Assistance Mission medical team, including six Americans, were shot and killed by militants as they were returning from a two-week trip providing eye and other health care in remote villages of northern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ahmad Massoud)
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U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos, center, leaves the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park after the 65th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing in Hiroshima, western Japan, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. The United States sent its first ever delegation to the ceremony marking the anniversary of the attacks. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
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U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos, looking upward, takes part in the 65th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. The United States sent its first ever delegation to the ceremony marking the anniversary of the attacks. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, Shigeyuki Inakuma)
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Tsuyuko Nakao, 92, prays for the victims of the Hiroshima atomic bomb attack in front of the cenotaph at the Peace Memorial Park at Hiroshima, western Japan, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. Hiroshima marked the 65th anniversary of the the world's first atomic bomb attack that devastated the western Japanese city at the closing days of World War II. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
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With the gutted Atomic Bomb Dome as a backdrop, doves fly over the cenotaph of the Peace Memorial Park at Hiroshima, western Japan, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. Hiroshima marked the 65th anniversary of the the world's first atomic bomb attack that devastated the western Japanese city at the closing days of World War II. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
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In this photo provided by the City of Hiroshima, U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos, left, greets Hiroshima city's Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba on his arrival at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park to attend the 65th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing in Hiroshima, western Japan Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. The United States sent its first ever delegation to the ceremony marking the anniversary of the attacks. (AP Photo/City of Hiroshima)
