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** FILE ** A lab technician at the Armed Forces Institute of Medical Science in Bangkok who works with the HIV Vaccine Trial Phrase Project in Thailand holds up a vial of AIDS vaccine in 2005 to check information and the manufacturing date printed on the vials. (AP Photo/Thai Public Health Ministry)
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A North Korean mock Scud-B missile, center, and other South Korean mock missiles are displayed at the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, July 4, 2009. On Saturday, North Korea fired seven missiles into the waters off the peninsula's eastern coast from morning until evening. AP photo.
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The Washington Monument looms over the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Wednesday, June 10, 2009. An elderly gunman opened fire with a rifle inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, gravely wounding a security guard before being shot. Authorities said they were investigating a white supremacist as the possible shooter. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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** FILE ** In this Nov. 19, 2008, photo reviewed by the U.S. military, a Guantanamo detainee glances up while resting on a foam pad inside a fenced-in outdoor exercise area at the Camp 6 high-security detention facility on the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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** FILE ** An Oklahoma City fireman walks near explosion-damaged cars on the north side of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City after the bombing on April 19, 1995. More than 600 people were injured in the attack and 168 people were killed. (AP Photo/Daily Oklahoman, Jim Argo, File)
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** FILE ** In this March 18, 2004, file photo Malian soldiers from the 512th Motorised Infantry company complete their training by U.S. Special Forces, top, in the desert near Timbuktu in Mali as part of the U.S. Pan-Sahel Initiative to secure the Sahel region from being used by terrorists. A North African faction, which calls itself Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), is still small and largely isolated, numbering a couple hundred militants based mostly in the vast desert of northern Mali. But there are signs of signs of stepped-up activity in the region. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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** FILE ** Supporters of the Communist Party of Nepal, or Maoists, dance to a patriotic song as they block a road in Katmandu, Nepal, on Sunday, May 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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** FILE ** Thai Buddhist monks pray for peace as anti-government demonstrators gather to shout insults at police outside police headquarters on Friday, April 9, 2010, in Bangkok. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)
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German Bundeswehr soldiers seen during a training in Seedorf, northern Germany on Aug. 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Joerg Sarbach, File) ** FILE **
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**FILE** In this photo taken Tuesday, June 23, 2009, U.S. Marine Capt. Zachary Martin, Golf Company commander of 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines of the 2nd MEB patrols with a squad through the empty town of Now Zad in Afghanistan's Helmand province. Three years after its residents fled, the once bustling town of Now Zad is the scene of a stalemate between U.S. Marines and Taliban insurgents and an example of the challenges facing the U.S. administration even as it sends 21,000 extra Marines and soldiers to the south to try and turn around a bogged down, 8-year-long war. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
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**FILE** U.S. Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Battalion walk through the sand inside Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan's Helmand province on June 8, 2009. (Associated Press)
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An anti-terrorist unit from the Central Security Forces of the Ministry of Interior trains in the Sarif area on the eastern outskirts of the Yemeni capital, San'a, on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010. Yemeni security forces arrested three suspected al Qaeda militants from a cell that the United States has said was linked to a plot against the American or other embassies, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday. (AP Photo)
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**FILE** Riot police stand guard in front of the residence of Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva during a demonstration in Bangkok by Red Shirt anti-government protesters on April 12, 2010. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** A U.S. Army Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopter flies on a mission over Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009.
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Thai soldiers use elevated train tracks to advance on protesters near Lumpini Park in downtown Bangkok on Wednesday. Large numbers of Thai troops and armored vehicles marshaled near the fortified encampment in a downtown area occupied by thousands of civilians trying to topple the government. (Associated Press)
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An anti-government protester lights a firecracker against Thai soldiers Tuesday, May 18, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. The Thai government rejected a proposal Tuesday for peace talks with leaders of the Red Shirt protesters to end the deadly mayhem gripping Bangkok, saying negotiations cannot start until the protesters disperse. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)
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An Indian peacekeeper keeps watch at the MONUC base in Kiwanja. MONUC has 34 mobile operating bases in North Kivu, small military encampments planted in or near villages to provide security and communications. These bases can be scattered through the battlespace for protection and observation. The U.N. chief for humanitarian affairs warned that the premature withdrawal of the U.N. peacekeeping force known as MONUC could worsen the situation. (The Washington Times)
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Firefighters try to extinguish burning cars near to the Hadrian's Arch seen in the background, in Athens, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. Greek fire officials say three people have died in a blaze at an Athens bank during rioting over government austerity measures. An estimated 100,000 people took to the streets Wednesday during a nationwide wave of strikes against spending cuts aimed at saving the country from bankruptcy. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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A Nigerian soldier stands guard outside the central mosque in Jos, Nigeria, in January after violence resulted in the deaths of both Christians and Muslims. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom puts Nigeria in the company of China, Iran and other top violators of religious freedom. (File photo, Associated Press)
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**FILE** A Pakistani police officer guards a U.N. car destroyed in June 2009 by suicide bomber at the Peshawar Pearl Continental Hotel. An increase in terrorist attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan triggered a spike in the number of civilians killed or wounded in 2009, pushing South Asia past the Middle East as the top terror region in the world, according to new figures compiled by a U.S. intelligence agency. (Associated Press)
