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FILE - In this Friday, June 3, 2011 file photo, Bahraini women shout "God is greater" in the streets of the Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Sanabis in Manama, Bahrain, shortly after riot police dispersed anti-government protesters who began a march after the funeral of a woman they claim died of tear gas inhalation the day before. The Shiite groups that speak on behalf of protesters, who took to the streets four months ago to demand greater rights, have shown no rush to embrace the appeals for dialogue by the Sunni monarchs they accuse of creating a two-tier society in the strategic Gulf kingdom. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File) (AP)

Obama finally applying pressure on Bahrain?

Natasha Lennard

In this photo taken on a government-organized tourm a Libyan student holds a portrait of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, outside the damaged university building in Tripoli, Libya, on Saturday, June 18, 2011. Libyan officials claim that one of the buildings at the university complex was recently hit by a NATO airstrike. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) (AP)

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Adam Schreck

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 24, 2011 file photo, Saudi women board a taxi in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A campaign to defy Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving opened Friday, June 17, 2011 with female motorists getting behind the wheel, including one who took a 45-minute tour through the nation's capital, amid calls for sustained challenges to the restrictions in the ultraconservative kingdom. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File) (Associated Press)

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Saudi women board a taxi in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, May 24, 2011. A Saudi woman was arrested for a second time for driving her car in what women's activists said Monday was a move by the rulers of the ultraconservative kingdom to suppress an Internet campaign encouraging women to defy a ban on female driving. Manal al-Sherif and a group of other women started a Facebook page called "Teach me how to drive so I can protect myself," urging authorities to lift the ban and posted a video clip last week of al-Sherif behind the wheel in the eastern city of Khobar. The page was removed after more than 12,000 people indicated their support for its call for women drivers to take to the streets in a mass drive on June 17. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) (AP)

A Syrian refugee woman brings laundry to an irrigation canal in a camp, in Boynuyogun, Turkey, Tuesday, June 14, 2011. According to the Turkish Prime Minister's office the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey stands at more than 8.500 people.As the government expands its crackdown on dissent, activists report tanks entering the northern town of Maaret al-Numan on Tuesday and other villages near Jisr al-Shughour.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) (AP)

Selcan Hacaoglu, Elizabeth A. Kennedy

President Barack Obama speaks at the beginning of a meeting with the Jobs and Competitiveness Council at the corporate and U.S. manufacturing headquarters of Cree, a leading manufacturer of energy-efficient LED lighting. Monday, June 13, 2011, in Durham, N.C. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

Glenn Greenwald

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A Syrian refugee woman walks in the new refugee tent compound in Boynuyogun, Turkey, near the Syrian border, Sunday, June 12, 2011. Syrian forces launched a crackdown on the Syrian town of Jisr al-Shughour on Sunday, fueling fears that the clashes could spark a further influx of refugees towards bordering Turkey.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) (AP)

An Egyptian prays on an Arabic slogan reads " Jerusalem for us, Palestine is an Arabic land " during a protest against Israel's closure of Gaza at Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian uprising, in Cairo, Egypt Friday, May 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (AP)

A resident spreads his arms in front of riot police and tanks moving into the Shiite Muslim village of Malkiya, Bahrain, southwest of Manama, on Sunday, March 20, 2011.Bahraini authorities are trying to crush a revolt by the nation's majority Shiites for greater political freedoms. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states have sent forces to help Bahrain's Sunni dynasty. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (Associated Press)

DC firm defends Bahrain on human rights crackdown

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This image taken from video released by Anatolia Agency shows two Syrian refugee children playing outside tents in a camp built to accommodate 5,000 people in the town of Yayladagi, Hatay province, Turkey near the Syrian border Thursday June 9, 2011. About 1,000 Syrians fleeing violence crossed into Turkey overnight, raising the total number of refugees in the country to 1,600. Hundreds of Syrians fled to Turkey on Thursday as elite Syrian troops moved to encircle a restive town ahead of a possible assault, sharply escalating the upheaval that threatens the 40-year regime led by President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Anatolia Agency via APTN) TURKEY OUT, TV OUT (AP)

Selcan Hacaoglu, Bassem Mroue

Armed Yemeni tribesmen stand on the back of a vehicle in Taiz, Yemen, Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Hundreds of armed tribesmen have taken control of part of Yemen's second-largest city, Taiz, security officials said Wednesday. The advance on Taiz showed the government's already tenuous control over the country has slipped further since President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded in a rocket attack on his compound in the capital Sanaa on Friday and left for medical care in neighboring Saudi Arabia. Saleh left as his country was edging closer to civil war. (AP Photo/Anees Mahyoub) (AP)

Natasha Lennard

Questions swirl around Syrian-American blogger

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA and according to them, Syrian policemen carry the coffins of their comrades who were killed in recent violence in the country, during their funeral procession at the Police Hospital in Damascus, Syria on Tuesday, June 7, 2011. Residents fled the northern region of Jisr al-Shughour on Tuesday where authorities said weekend clashes between armed men and government troops killed 120 security forces, fearing retaliation from a regime known for ruthlessly crushing dissent. (AP Photo/SANA) EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

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In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and provided by Shaam News Network, Syrian protesters hold an Arabic banner read:"May God help break the silence of the Arab League," as they march during a protest at the village of Kfar-Nebel, in the northen province of Edleb, Syria, on Friday June 3, 2011. Syrian troops pounded a central town with artillery and heavy machinegun fire Friday, killing at least two people in the latest onslaught as authorities cut off Internet service in several regions in an apparent move to prevent the uploading of videos of anti-regime demonstrations, activists said. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTO (AP)

Syria: Crackdowns, blackouts, blogger kidnappings

Natasha Lennard

Seen from Majdal Shams, an armed Syrian security officer on a hill over looking Majdal Shams near the border between Syria and Israel in the Golan Heights early Monday, June 6, 2011. Syrian police blocked dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters from approaching the Israeli frontier on Monday. The toll of demonstrators killed trying to break through into the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights rose to 23. Syrian police set up a pair of checkpoints, including one a half-mile (kilometer) from the border. Nearly 20 protesters, some waving Syrian flags, began walking down a hill leading to the border when two police officers blocked their advance by extending their arms. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) (AP)

In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and provided by Shaam News Network, Syrian protesters hold an Arabic banner read:"May God help break the silence of the Arab League," as they march during a protest at the village of Kfar-Nebel, in the northen province of Edleb, Syria, on Friday June 3, 2011. Syrian troops pounded a central town with artillery and heavy machinegun fire Friday, killing at least two people in the latest onslaught as authorities cut off Internet service in several regions in an apparent move to prevent the uploading of videos of anti-regime demonstrations, activists said. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTO (AP)

Associated Press

A discarded sandal is seen amid debris and destroyed vehicles the morning after four blasts killed several people in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, June 3, 2011. The blasts in what was the heartland of the al-Qaida-led insurgency are a reminder of the danger still facing Iraq, as it prepares for the departure of the remaining U.S. troops by the end of this year.(AP Photo) (AP)

Rebecca Santana

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A Druze boy looks at Syria along the border between Israel and Syria near the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights early Monday, June 6, 2011. Israeli troops are bracing for more border violence after a day of deadly clashes with pro-Palestinian protesters who tried to surge into the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights from Syria. Several dozen demonstrators were camped out on the Syrian side of the border overnight, but the Israeli military says all was quiet early Monday. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) (AP)

Daniella Cheslow

Pro Palestinians protesters try to break a fence along the border between Israel and Syria near the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, Sunday, June 5, 2011 . Israeli troops opened fire across the Syrian frontier on Sunday to disperse hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters who stormed the border of the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, reportedly killing four people in unrest marking the anniversary of the Arab defeat in the 1967 Mideast war. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) (AP)

Daniella Cheslow

Yemeni army soldiers lifted by anti-government protestors, chants slogans and wave their national flag as they celebrate President Ali Abdullah Saleh's departure to Saudi Arabia, in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, June 5, 2011. Thousands of protesters are dancing and singing in the Yemeni capital Sanaa after the country's authoritarian leader flew to Saudi Arabia to receive medical treatment for wounds he suffered in a rocket attack on his compound. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) (AP)

An anti-government protestor, reacts during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, June 3, 2011. A government official says Yemen's president was lightly injured and four top officials wounded when opposition tribesmen struck his palace with rockets Friday. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) (AP)

5 top Yemeni officials in Saudi for treatment

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