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In this picture taken Thursday Nov. 19, 2009, Rahimullah stands at an Afghan National Army checkpoint soldier , the car he was traveling in being stopped because of his weapon, in the Tagab Valley some 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of Kabul, Afghanistan. Rahimullah, a former Taliban fighter, changed side, joined the Afghan forces and was given an AK47 automatic riffle. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

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Wooing of Taliba... In this picture taken Thursday Nov. 19, 2009, Rahimullah stands at an Afghan National Army checkpoint soldier , the car he was traveling in being stopped because of his weapon, in the Tagab Valley some 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of Kabul, Afghanistan. Rahimullah, a former Taliban fighter, changed side, joined the Afghan forces and was given an AK47 automatic riffle. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Indian probe bla... India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party leader S.S. Ahluwalia, right, talks with Samajwadi, or Socialist party leader Amar Singh after the tabling of Liberhan report, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2009. A government investigation released Tuesday reportedly implicated dozens of Hindu nationalist politicians, including a former prime minister in the 1992 demolition of Babri mosque that sparked deadly communal riots. Ahluwalia had a minor scuffle with Singh after the report was tabled. (AP Photo)
Festival of mass... Butchers with butcher knives participate in religious rituals before slaughtering buffalos during a mass sacrifice ceremony at Gadhimai temple in Bariyapur, about 70 kilometers (43 miles) south of Katmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. Hundreds of thousands of Hindus gathered at a temple in southern Nepal on Tuesday for a ceremony involving the slaughter of more than 200,000 animals, a festival that has drawn the ire of animal-welfare protesters. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
Former Thai Prim... FILE - In this January 29, 2008 file photo, Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej gestures after receiving the royal command appointing him the country's prime minister at his residence in Bangkok, Thailand. Samak, a firebrand politician who briefly served as prime minister but was ousted for simultaneously getting income as host of a popular TV cooking show, died of cancer Tuesday. He was 74. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)
Philippines decl... Police officers carry one of dead bodies they recovered along a hillside in Datu Ampatuan, Maguindanao province, southern Philippines on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo placed two souuthern provinces under a state of emergency, giving security forces free hand to pursue gunmen who killed at least 24 people in one of the country's worst election massacres. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Icebergs head fr... In this Nov. 16, 2009 photo released by the Australian Antarctic Division, an iceberg is seen at Sandy Bay on Macquarie Island's east coast, in the Southern Ocean 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) southeast of Tasmania, Australia. It is very rare to see icebergs from Macquarie Island and is uncommon to find icebergs in this general region. (AP Photo/Australian Antarctic Division, Eve Merfield)
Opposition backs... FILE - This Oct. 4, 2009 file photo shows Daniel Fawcett of the U.S. Forest Service setting a back-fire to combat a wildfire in Wrightwood, Calif. Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated, beyond some of the grimmest warnings. Officials from across the world will convene in Copenhagen next month to seek a follow-up pact, one that President Barack Obama says "has immediate operational effect...an important step forward in the effort to rally the world around a solution." (AP Photo/Francis Specker, File)
Long prison term... In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Kaing Guek Eav, right, the former chief of the Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison, now known as Tuol Sleng genocide museum, talks with his lawyer Francois Roux, left, from France, in a courtroom of the U.N.-backed tribunal, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. Also known as Duch, Kaing Guek Eav is charged with crimes against humanity, war crimes, murder and torture, and is the first of five defendants scheduled for long-delayed trials by the tribunal. (AP Photo/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)
Bomb kills 6 fam... U.S. Army Stf. Sgt. Leslie Harbin from East Over, S.C., left, and Stf. Sgt. Joseph Timms from Williamston, S.C. foreground, belonging to the South Carolina National Guard patrol near the town of Baraki Barak, Logar province, Afghanistan Monday Nov. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
Pakistani troops... Local residents examine a damaged government high school, wrecked by suspected militants on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009 on the outskirts of Bara, the main town of Pakistan troubled tribal region Khyber along the Afghan border. Militants target schools, particularly girls schools, because they deeply opposed to Western-style education. (AP Photo/Qazi Tariq)
Renowned Chinese... In this October 2006 photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, Yang Xianyi, one of China's well-known translators, known for rendering numerous ancient Chinese classics into English, including "The Dream of the Red Mansions," poses at his home in Beijing. Yang died in Beijing on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009, Xinhua said Tuesday. He was 94. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Tang Shizeng)
China activist w... FILE - In this April 5, 2000 file photo, Chinese computer engineer Huang Qi poses for photo in his office in Chengdu, in China's Sichuan province. A Chinese court handed down a three-year sentence in prison to the veteran dissident accused of spying, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. (AP Photo, File)
Kangaroo tries t... FILE - In this file photo taken Aug. 29, 2005, file photo, a female kangaroo and her joey are seen in suburban Sydney, Australia. An Australian man was in stable condition Monday, Nov. 23, 2009, after being slashed across the abdomen and face by a kangaroo that was holding his dog underwater. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)
Woman found 25 h... An unidentified relative of a victim weeps while waiting for news at Sekupang port in Batam, Indonesia, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. Rescuers returned to choppy waters off Indonesia's Sumatra island Monday to search for passengers still missing after a ferry sank in a storm on Sunday. (AP Photo/Tjundra Laksamana)
Official: China ... Relatives of miners who were killed in a gas explosion cry at the entrance of Xinxing Coal Mine in Hegang, Heilongjiang province, China, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. The death toll two days later was up to 104, with four still missing, the official Xinhua news agency said Monday. The accident Saturday was the deadliest in China's mining industry for two years, and has highlighted how heavy demand for power-generating coal comes at a high human cost. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Hundreds protest... Police hold a protestor during a protest against the planned construction of a trash incinerator outside Guangzhou's main government headquarters, southern China, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. Banners read, "Oppose the trash incinerator." Hundreds of residents protested Monday against the planned construction of a trash incinerator in the southern boomtown city of Guangzhou. (AP Photo)
Afghan provinces... In this Oct. 2, 2009 photo, Afghan opium addicts squat on the floor as they smoke opium inside the bombed-out ruins of the former Russian Cultural Center, in Kabul, Afghanistan. The U.S. announced Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 that it is giving US$38.7 million to 27 Afghan provinces that either reduced poppy cultivation by more than 10 percent or became poppy free this year. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Gunfire at home ... An Indonesia police officer, center, talks with Michelle Ahmed as Sarah Willis walks by them at the two English teachers' home after unidentified gunmen fired shots at it in Darussalam, Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. Officials say gunfire hit the home of the two American lecturers in Indonesia's western province of Aceh. No one was injured. (AP Photo/Heri Juanda)
2 bomb blasts le... Medical staff carry a blast victim for treatment at Gauhati Medical College Hospital in Gauhati, India, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009. Two bombs exploded in India's restive northeast Sunday, police said. (AP Photo)
Mumbai still vul... A Jewish man stands behind a candle during a multi-faith candle light vigil to commemorate last year's terror attacks at Nariman House in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. Nariman House is the Jewish center where the attackers killed a rabbi, his wife and a National Security Guard commando. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Afghan road buil... This Nov. 3, 2009 photo shows Afghan contractor Khalid Khan, 30, during an interview in Kabul, Afghanistan. Once on the front lines of the international effort to rebuild Afghanistan, the black-bearded road construction contractor now sits idle, cross-legged and quiet on the floor of the small hilltop home he moved into after he had to sell his own. (AP Photo/Farzana Wahidy)
Sri Lanka to rel... In this photo provided by the United Nations, U.N. Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes, left, speaks with a group of resettled internally displaced people at a camp for the displaced in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. Holmes visited northern Sri Lanka to study the welfare of war-displaced civilians held in camps and those recently resettled. (AP Photo/United Nations)
Buddhists from 2... In this photo released by Geumgang News Paper, North and South Korean, clad in Buddhist garb, Buddhist monks pray during a service marking the 908th anniversary of the death of the Cheontae Order's founder at the a temple in Kaesong, North Korea, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009. More than a dozen of South and North Korean Buddhist monks held a joint ceremony at a temple in the communist country on Saturday, a South Korean Buddhist monk said, showing the countries continue civil exchange despite a bloody naval skirmish earlier this month. (AP Photo/Geumgang News Pape, Nam Dong-woo)
Afghan police ar... In this Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 photo, Afghan policemen try to stop cars at a mobile checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan. Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the country to Afghans so American and other foreign troops can go home. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
US envoy critici... President Barack Obama, center, walks to his vehicle after his arrival on Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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