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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)
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Afghan women chant slogans against NATO and U.S. forces during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010, in condemnation of the alleged killing of Afghan civilians by NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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Kashmiris shout pro-freedom slogans as relatives and friends carry the body of Afroza Wani on a stretcher outside a hospital in Srinagar, India, on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010. Four people were killed Sunday by security forces who opened fire on thousands of protesters at two separate places in increasingly violent Indian Kashmir, bringing the death toll from weeks of clashes to 27. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
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Iraqi soldiers secure a street in the Azamiyah neighborhood in Baghdad on Saturday, July 31, 2010, after authorities announced a partial lifting of a curfew imposed on the Sunni neighborhood on Thursday following a brazen daylight attack by al Qaeda militants. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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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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In this July 19, 2010, file photo, family members receive flags during a funeral service for Missouri Army National Guard Sgt. Robert Wayne Crow in Liberty, Mo. Crow, 42, of Kansas City, Mo., died July 10 in Paktika, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device. NATO announced Friday, July 30, 2010, that six more U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 66 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly 9-year-old war. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
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In this July 26, 2010, file photo, An Army carry team carries a transfer case containing the remains of Spc. Joseph A. Bauer at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Bauer, of Cincinnati, died while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. NATO announced Friday, July 30, 2010, that six more U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 66 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly 9-year-old war. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark, File)
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A sign asking for privacy is posted on the front door of the home of Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, Thursday, July 29, 2010, in Seattle. According to a senior U.S. military official and Afghan officials, Newlove, the second U.S. Navy sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan was found dead and his body recovered. The family of Newlove, 25, had been notified of his death, the U.S. military official said on the condition of anonymity, because he was not authorized to disclose the information. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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**FILE** U.S. Army troops from the 1st Battalion 320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, duck July 22, 2010, as an Afghan soldier fires a rocket propelled grenade towards insurgent positions at Combat Outpost Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)
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An M-14 sniper rifle sits beside a watch tower as smoke rises in the background after U.S. soldiers blew up a mud wall which Taliban insurgents were using as cover to attack troops from the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division at Combat Outpost Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Thursday, July 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, July 29, 2010. Mr. Karzai says the release of secret documents have endangered the lives of Afghan citizens who have cooperated with the international forces. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
