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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 ** 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 ** U.S. Army service members salute in the official uniforms of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACS) in this May 22, 1942, photo. Wartime often has been heralded as strong periods of American style, yet the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq seem to be barely a blip on the radar of the fashion community. (AP Photo/File)
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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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**FILE** Somali government coast guards patrol the coast of Mogadishu, Somalia to keep a watch for pirates who hijack ships off the coast. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** An Iraqi soldier is seen near an Iraqi Army tank, which was destroyed in the U.S.-led invasion, in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, on April 9. (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 ** 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 ** Adam Gadahn, the American-born al Qaeda spokesman seen in these undated file photos released by the FBI, called on Muslims serving in the U.S. armed forces to emulate the Army major charged with killing 13 people in Fort Hood. (AP Photo/FBI-released photos, File)
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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 ** 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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** FILE ** This Thursday, March 14, 2002, file photo shows convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, who was due to learn Thursday, Aug. 20. 2009, whether he will be freed on compassionate grounds and allowed to return to Libya or die in a British prison. (AP Photo/Via APTN)
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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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**FILE** Afghan farmers work in an opium poppy field in Nawa district of Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, on April 25, 2009. (Associated Press)
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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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**FILE** A British Airways aircraft prepares to taxi at Heathrow Airport in London on Aug. 13, 2005. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Pigeons fly as the Taj Mahal Palace hotel continued to burn in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008. Teams of heavily armed gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India's financial capital, police said. (AP Photo)
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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)
