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A damaged bus with shattered windows and a damaged trunk is seen in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, June 22, 2010, after a roadside bomb attack. Suspected Kurdish rebels detonated a remote-controlled bomb in Istanbul Tuesday, killing four people and wounding 12 on a bus carrying military personnel and their families, the governor said. (AP Photo )
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** FILE ** In this May 10, 2010, file photo, Commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan Gen. Stanley McChrystal, and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl W. Eikenberry brief reporters ahead of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's visit at the White House. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Iraqis protest power cuts in Nasiriyah, about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, for a second day on Monday. Riot police in southern Iraq used water cannons to disperse protesters who were pelting them with stones. (Associated Press)
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A protester holds a flyer depicting Iraq's Electricity Minister Karim Waheed, top left, and Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, bottom left, during a demonstration against electricity shortages in Nasiriyah, about 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 21, 2010. Riot police in southern Iraq used water cannons to disperse protesters pelting them with stones Monday during a demonstration against power cuts as anger spread over the lack of basic utilities to fend off the country's searing summer heat. In Arabic, the flyer reads, "Karim Waheed and Zarqawi are two sides of the same coin." (AP Photo)
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The casket is carried into the funeral for Marine Cpl. Jacob Leicht, the 1,000th American serviceman killed in Afghanistan, at the Impact Christian Fellowship church Saturday, June 5, 2010, in Kerrville, Texas. Cpl. Leicht, who was born on the Fourth of July, died several days before Americans honor fallen troops on Memorial Day. . (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Tom Reel)
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Palestinian and Lebanese flags wave over fishing boats off Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on Monday, June 21, 2010, during a demonstration supporting Lebanese ships planning to sail from Lebanon in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
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A Palestinian child stands on a side street in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Monday, June 21, 2010. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat pressed ahead Monday with a contentious plan to raze 22 illegally built Palestinian homes to make room for a tourist center that Palestinians fear would tighten Israel's grip on the city's contested eastern sector. The site, called al-Bustan, is a section of the larger neighborhood of Silwan, which is home to some 50,000 Palestinians and 70 Jewish families. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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Medics treat a wounded Afghan boy in a hospital in Herat after he was injured in a clash between the police and Taliban in Afghanistan's Badghis province, Sunday, June 20, 2010. Three Taliban militants were killed and 33 others were wounded in the clash with police Sunday morning, according to Sharafudin Najebi, a Badghis province governor spokesman said. (AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi)
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**FILE** A Chinese clerk counts U.S. dollars in exchange for the Chinese renminbi at a bank in Hefei in central China's Anhui province on June 20, 2010. (Associated Press)
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An Iraqi army soldier stands guard at the site of a car bombing in Baghdad on Sunday, June 20, 2010. Twin car bombs exploded Sunday near a major square in the Iraqi capital, killing at least 28 people and wounding dozens in the latest attack targeting a high-profile area in the capital. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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** FILE ** Palestinian trucks loaded with fruits and other goods arrive in Rafah, Gaza Strip, from Israel through the Kerem Shalom border crossing on Thursday, June 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)
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Former Taliban fighters stand in line as they surrender their weapons to Afghan authorities in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, June 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi)
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Twin car bombs exploded on Sunday, June 20, 2010, near a major square in Baghdad, killing at least 18 people and wounding dozens in the latest attack targeting a high-profile area in the capital. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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Black smoke is seen coming from the intelligence services building that came under attack in the southern port city of Aden, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) south of the capital, San'a, in Yemen Saturday, June 19, 2010. Four suspected al Qaeda gunmen blasted their way into the intelligence headquarters in Yemen's second largest city Saturday and freed several detainees in the group's most spectacular operation since a U.S.-backed government crackdown began late last year. (AP Photo)
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FILE - In this June 9, 2010 photo, former NBA basketball star Manute Bol poses for a photograph at the Sunrise Sudan headquarters in Lenexa, Kan. Bol has died at a Virginia hospital, where he was being treated for severe kidney trouble and a painful skin condition according to an associate of Bol's. Sudan Sunrise executive director Tom Prichard says in an e-mail that Bol died Saturday, June 19, 2010 at the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville. The 47-year-old Bol played 10 seasons in the NBA and later founded Sudan Sunrise, a humanitarian group based in Lenexa, Kan., that promotes reconciliation in Sudan. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)
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Kyrgyzstan's interim government leader Roza Otunbayeva, right, speaks to a wounded ethnic Kyrgyz citizen in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. She is vowing to work for the return of refugees who fled deadly ethnic violence there by the hundreds of thousands. (AP Photo/Kyrgyz Presidential Press Service, Sagyn Alchiyev, pool)
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An injured man is rushed to a hospital after a car bombing in Tuz Khormato, in northern Iraq, Friday, June 18, 2010. Car bombs, meanwhile, tore through two neighborhoods in restive cities north of Baghdad in separate attacks targeting a police captain and a provincial council member. The deadliest attack was in the northern city of Tuz Khormato when an explosives-laden car blew up about 50 yards (meters) from the house of Niazi Mohammed, a Turkomen member of the Salahuddin provincial council, according to police. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, second right, and Britain's Prince Charles, right, look at photographs of French President Charles De Gaulle during a visit to London headquarters of the Free French, the fighters led by de Gaulle, who rejected their country's surrender to Nazi Germany, on Friday June 18, 2010. Mr. Sarkozy marked the 70th anniversary of de Gaulle's defiant World War II broadcast from London on Friday, visiting the studio where the leader urged his compatriots to resist the German occupation. (AP Photo/Leon Neal, Pool)
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Kyrgyzstan's interim government leader Rosa Otunbayeva wearing a flak jacket, reacts as she listens to a question during her meeting with local officials after landing by military helicopter on the central square in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. She is vowing to work for the return of refugees who fled deadly ethnic violence there by the hundreds of thousands. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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Ethnic Uzbek women and children sit in a tent near Uzbek-Kyrgyz border in outskirts southern city of Osh, Friday, June 18, 2010. The United Nations said as many as 1 million people may need aid in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, including the potential number of refugees, internally displaced, host families and others that may suffer in one way or another from the unrest. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
