Iraqi National Guardsmen are seen training Thursday Sept. 9, 2004 with an unidentified U.S. army instructor on the American base in Uja, Iraq (news - web sites). The 50 Iraqi National Guardsmen training on the American base outside this dusty village where Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) was born are key to U.S. plans to pull its 140,000 troops out of Iraq. The recruits hope to become one of postwar Iraq's first bomb disposal units. (AP Photo/Jim Krane)
BALAD, IRAQ: A US soldier looks over the Iraqi village of Balad, northern Iraq, as he mans a machine gun at a US Blackhawk helicopter, 10 September 2004. Militants loyal to Al-Qaeda's number two have given Italy 24 hours to promise to release Muslim women prisoners in Iraq in exchange for details about two kidnapped women aid workers, in a statement published on a website today. AFP PHOTO/Jewel SAMAD (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
Supporters of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr are barred from arguing with Iraqi soldiers by their leaders as they congregate to show support for al-Sadr in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Friday Sept. 10, 2004. Altercations broke out after some of the supporters challenged the soldiers for supporting the U.S. Army. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Palestinian militants from the hardline Islamist movement Hamas lay a mine during clashes near the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip (news - web sites). A Hamas militant was killed in clashes with Israeli troops in the nrothern Gaza Strip(AFP/Mahmud Hams)
Ayman al-Zawahri (R), the number two figure in al Qaeda, appeared in a new videotape aired on Al Jazeera on September 9, 2004 ridiculing U.S. forces which he said were 'hiding in their trenches' in Afghanistan (news - web sites). Zawahri, the right-hand man of Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)(L), spoke to camera for several minutes in the videotape, wearing a white turban with a machine gun at his side. Zawahri is seen with Bin Laden in this November 2001 file photo. Photo by Reuters (Handout)
Armed police officers maintain their usual security presence outside the American Embassy in London, Friday Sept. 10, 2004, on the eve of the third anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. (AP Photo/John D McHugh)
A Chechen police officer looks through an embrasure at a checkpoint near the Chechen village of Tsentoroy, 80 km (50 miles) south of Grozny, Dec. 10, 2003. Citing police sources, the Russky Kuryer newspaper reported Thursday, Sept. 9, 2004, that two of the terrorists who attacked the school in Beslan on Sept. 1, identified as Nur-Pashi Kulayev and Mairbek Shaybekkhanov, had been arrested in 2002 and 2003 by police in Chechnya (news - web sites) but freed after what the paper said was a 'substantial' payoff to police. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev, File)
Soldiers from Trinidad & Tobago provide security to a truck of the Grenada Electricity Services in downtown St. George's, Grenada, Friday, Sept. 10, 2004. Ivan, the deadliest hurricane to hit the Caribbean in a decade, pummeled Grenada, Barbados and other southern islands on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)
Soldiers guard the American information center in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, Sept.10, 2004. Suspected communist rebels bombed the center on Friday, damaging parts of the building but causing no casualties, police said. It was the first time that rebels, who oppose U.S. support for the government, are suspected of directly attacking an American government target. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)
Indonesian army soldiers carry their rifles during a show of force in Jakarta, September 10, 2004. Hundreds of elite Jakarta police troops paraded in Jakarta on Friday in preparations to secure the capital. Security fears after a car bomb blast outside Australia's Embassy in Indonesia are overshadowing upcoming presidential elections in the world's most populous Muslim country. REUTERS/Beawiharta
Gurkha soldiers. For two centuries, tens of thousands of men from the mountains of Nepal have been recruited by the British army, earning reputations worldwide as unusually tough and brave soldiers.(AFP/File /Raveendran )
MANILA, PHILIPPINES: Elite Philippine police stand guard outside the US embassy in Manila 10 September 2004, as part of heightened security measures in the wake of the car bombing in Jakarta that left nine dead. Philippine authorities boosted security around key embassies and other installations to guard against any copycat attacks. The Jakarta bombing is widely believed to have been carried out by the Jemaah Islamiyah regional terror network which has also carried out bombings in the Philippines. AFP PHOTO/JAY DIRECTO (Photo credit should read JAY DIRECTO/AFP/Getty Images)
MANILA, PHILIPPINES: Elite Philippine police stand guard outside the US embassy in Manila 10 September 2004, as part of heightened security measures in the wake of the car bombing in Jakarta that left nine dead. Philippine authorities boosted security around key embassies and other installations to guard against any copycat attacks. The Jakarta bombing is widely believed to have been carried out by the Jemaah Islamiyah regional terror network which has also carried out bombings in the Philippines. AFP PHOTO/JAY DIRECTO (Photo credit should read JAY DIRECTO/AFP/Getty Images)
An Indonesian anti-terrorist squad carries their rifles during a show of force at Jakarta police headquarters on September 10, 2004. Hundreds of elite Jakarta police troops paraded in Jakarta on Friday in preparations to secure the capital. Security fears after a car bomb blast outside Australia's Embassy in Indonesia are overshadowing upcoming presidential elections in the world's most populous Muslim country. REUTERS/Beawiharta