War_Conflict

mosques_2057.jpg

People in New York protest the proposed construction of a mosque near the World Trade Center site Sunday, June 6, 2010.

In this May 20, 2010, file photo, a defaced portrait of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is seen in front of the arson attack on the Thailand's biggest shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand. A state of emergency imposed during anti-government protests was extended in Bangkok on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

mosques_2057

STANDING THEIR GROUND: Protesters object to proposed construction of a mosque near ground zero. Three separate plans to build mosques in the city are being met with anger. (Associated Press)

mosques_2052

People in New York protest the proposed construction of a mosque near the World Trade Center site Sunday, June 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Swoan Parker)

Lebanon_2035

A Shiite scout boy stands in between two posters of Lebanon's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, who died on Sunday, during his funeral procession at the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Tens of thousands of people swarmed the coffin of Lebanon's top Shiite cleric as it made its way through the streets of south Beirut to the mosque for burial. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon_2034

Shiite supporters carry the coffin of Lebanon's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, who died on Sunday, during his funeral procession at the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Tens of thousands of people swarmed the coffin of Lebanon's top Shiite cleric as it made its way through the streets of south Beirut to the mosque for burial. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon_2033

Lebanese Shiite women mourn as they take pictures for the coffin of Lebanon's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, who died on Sunday, during his funeral procession at the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, 75, died Sunday after a long illness. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon_2031

Lebanese Shiite women mourn during the funeral procession of Lebanon's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, who died on Sunday, at the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Tens of thousands of people swarmed the coffin of Lebanon's top Shiite cleric as it made its way through the streets of south Beirut to the mosque for burial. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

ODIERNO.jpg

U.S. Army Gen. Raymond T. Odierno speaks during a press conference in Baghdad on Tuesday, July 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

IRAQ.jpg

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, left, his wife, Jill Biden, center and Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, right, are seen during a naturalization ceremony for service members at al-Faw Palace on the western outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, July 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

fourth_177

Soldiers with the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment Old Guard Continental Color Guard line up near the National Archives building, left, in Washington before the start of the Fourth of July, Independence Day, festivities Sunday, July 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Afghanistan_AKCF108.jpg

Spec. Donny Mason, a U.S. soldier from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion of the 508 Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne, looks through his rifle scope as he stands guard at Combat Outpost Ware in the volatile Arghandab Valley, outside Kandahar City in Afghanistan on Sunday. (Associated Press)

APTOPIX_Afghanistan.jpg

Gen. David H. Petraeus speaks during a ceremony in which he formally assumed command on Sunday in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

GITMO.jpg

** FILE ** In this May 13, 2009, file photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, a U.S. trooper walks near an entrance to the Guantanamo detention facility at dawn, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

ODIERNO.jpg

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, Gen. Ray Odierno, center, and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill, left, confer at the embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, July 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

WORLDCUP.jpg

Germany's Miroslav Klose celebrates after scoring the second goal during the World Cup quarterfinal soccer match between Argentina and Germany at the Green Point stadium in Cape Town, South Africa, Saturday, July 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

PATRAEUS.jpg

** FILE ** Gen. David H. Petraeus (center right), the newly appointed International Security Assistance Forces commander, greets Lt. Gen. David Rodriguez upon Gen. Petraeus' arrival in Kabul, Afghanistan, in July 2010 to take command of U.S. and international forces fighting the nearly 9-year-old war. (AP Photo/Staff Sgt. Daylena Gonzalez, U.S. Air Force)

MEXICO.jpg

Jesus Ernesto Chavez, known as "El Camello," second from left, stands as he is guarded by a federal police officer during a presentation to the press, in Mexico City, Friday, July 2, 2010. According to the federal police Chavez ordered the March 13 attack that killed a U.S. consulate employee and her husband as they drove in the violent border city. The other two detained men are unidentified. (AP Photo/Carlos Jasso)

bom_233

Family members of victims comfort each others after suicide bombers attacked a popular Muslim shrine in the Pakistan city of Lahore late Thursday night July 1, 2010, killing more than 30 people and wounding 175 others, the city's top official said. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)

bom_232

Pakistani police officers cordon off the area where suicide bombers attacked a popular Muslim shrine in the Pakistan city of Lahore late Thursday night July 1, 2010, killing more than 30 people and wounding 175 others, the city's top official said. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)