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A Palestinian waves a flag during a demonstration in the West Bank, Friday, Sept. 9, 2011

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FILE - In this Feb. 6, 1993 file photo, Goran Hadzic, who heads representatives of the Krajina Serbs, talks with reporters at the United Nations in New York, United States. It has been reported on Wednesday, July 20, 2011 by Serbian TV station B92 that authorities have arrested Goran Hadzic, the last remaining fugitive sought by the U.N. war crimes court. Hadzic has been on the run for eight years. He is wanted for atrocities stemming from the 1991-1995 war in Croatia. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File) (AP)

FILE - This undated file photo obtained by The Associated Press shows Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private suspected of being the source of some of the unauthorized classified information disclosed on the WikiLeaks website. Army officials are opening the doors to a Fort Leavenworth prison where WikiLeaks suspect Pfc. Bradley Manning awaits further court proceedings. Manning was moved last week from the Marine brig in Quantico, Va., to the Joint Regional Correctional Facility in Kansas amid criticism over his treatment and confinement. (AP Photo, File) (AP)

Glenn Greenwald

Bahraini Shiite Muslims chant slogans to free prisoners during a sermon Friday, June 10, 2011, in Diraz, Bahrain, when Sheik Issa Qassem, Bahrain's top Shiite cleric, said Bahrain should free political prisoners and that the nation's reputation is being damaged by prosecuting doctors, teachers, youths, women, clerics and other professionals arrested during the crackdown on anti-government protesters. Many Shiite Muslim clerics, including Sheik Ali Salman, leader of the largest opposition party, attended midday prayers in Diraz, an unusual move to show their solidarity with Qassem. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (AP)

Bahrain's crackdown: From the streets to the court

Natasha Lennard

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Edith M. Lederer

FILE - In this July 2, 2009 file photo, a gay rights activist in Calcutta, India, participates in a rally celebrating the groundbreaking ruling by the Delhi High Court decriminalizing homosexuality. The United Nations issued its first condemnation of discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgender people on Friday, June 17, 2011, in a cautiously worded declaration hailed by supporters as a historic moment. Members of the U.N. Human Rights Council narrowly voted in favor of the resolution put forward by South Africa, against strong opposition from African and Islamic countries. (AP Photo/Sucheta Das, File) (AP)

A Palestinian family waits before crossing into Egypt through the Rafah border crossing, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, May 28, 2011. Egypt officially and fully reopens its passenger crossing with Gaza at the town of Rafah, after a long period of restrictions aimed at isolating the Hamas militant group that rules the Palestinian coastal strip which could ease the isolation of 1.4 million Palestinians there. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) (AP)

Natasha Lennard

In this photo obtained by the Associated Press on Thursday June 2, 2011 and taken on May 8, 2011, a man, who according U.N. reports had been killed in a apparent massacre of civilians, lies on the ground in the village of Kaldak, Jonglei state, southern Sudan. Southern Sudan soldiers attacking a minority ethnic group targeted and shot unarmed men and women after a battle at this remote Nile River village that resulted in hundreds of civilian victims, according to secret U.N. reports obtained by The Associated Press. The killings including of women and young children, raise serious questions over how much control Southern Sudan's military leaders have over troops in the field as the south approaches its independence day July 9, when it officially breaks away from northern Sudan and becomes the world's newest nation. (AP Photo) (AP)

Associated Press

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A Libyan man shouts as he and others rally next to Moammar Gadhafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound, a regular target of NATO airstrikes, in Tripoli, Libya, on Tuesday, June 7, 2011. Gadhafi has vowed to fight to the death in a surprise speech during the heaviest day of NATO shelling in the capital Tripoli. Gadhafi's voice suddenly emerged on Libyan television Tuesday afternoon _ barely an hour after the last of some 30 NATO strikes pounded the capital. He vowed "We will not kneel" and "We will not surrender!" (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) (AP)

Natasha Lennard

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)

In this photo taken Tuesday, May 24 , 2011, a table and a chair are seen in an apartment used by snipers loyal to Libyan-leader Moammar Gadhafi and destroyed during fighting with rebels for the control of Tripoli Street, Misrata, Libya. Since the weeks-long siege of the city ended in mid-May, Misrata residents make pilgrimages to Tripoli Street, site of the fiercest fighting in the battle for Libya between the rebels and Moammar Gadhafi's forces. People gawk at the wreckage of bombed-out buildings with gaping holes and walls pocked by bullets, and shoot photos of charred hulks of tanks, rubble-strewn streets and a side walk museum featuring drumloads of bullet casings, uniforms of dead enemies, and unexploded munitions. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) (AP)

FILE - Bosnian-Serb General Ratko Mladic is seen in this 1995 file photo during a visit to troops in the east Bosnian town of Vlasenica. Belgrade's B-92 radio reports Thursday May 26, 2011 that a man suspected to be Europe's most wanted war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has been arrested in Serbia. Serbia's war crimes prosecutors refused to confirm or deny the report. (AP Photo/Oleg Stjepanovic) (AP)

Associated Press

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In this photo released by the Hamas Media Office, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center-left, and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, center-right, shake hands at a ceremony in Cairo, Egypt Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas on Wednesday proclaimed a landmark, Egyptian-mediated reconciliation pact aimed at ending their bitter four-year rift, at a declaration ceremony in the Egyptian capital Cairo. (AP Photo/Hamas Media Office) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES ** (AP)

Katharine Houreld

Palestinian mourners burn an Israeli flag during a funerla procession of three Palestinians who killed when Israeli soldiers opened fire on Sunday at protesters who approached the village of Majdal Shams at Syria's border with the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, at Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, Syria, on Monday May 16 2011. Israeli troops clashed with Arab protesters along three hostile borders on Sunday, leaving people dead and dozens wounded in an unprecedented wave of violence marking the anniversary of the mass displacement of Palestinians surrounding Israel's establishment in 1948. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi) (AP)

John Bolton

Bolton: I care about things besides bombing Iran

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Pakistani security officers stand guard near the perimeter of the compound of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Many of the residents of Abbottabad seem to be confused and suspicious about the killing of Osama bin Laden, which took place in their midst before dawn on Monday, even as the U.S. White House has struggled to communicate its account of the audacious raid that killed Osama bin Laden for both a jubilant American public and a skeptical Muslim world. (AP Photo/Aqeel Ahmed) (AP)

Associated Press

Peter Finocchiaro

Soldiers loyal to Alassane Ouattara occupy an area of the Youpougon neighborhood, near a checkpoint at the main northern entrance to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Ivory Coast's strongman leader Gbagbo holed up in a bunker inside the presidential residence Tuesday, defiantly maintaining he won the election four months ago even as troops backing the internationally recognized winner encircled the home. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) (AP)

Rukmini Callimachi, Marco Chown Oved

This handout photo provided by the French Defense Ministry on Sunday April 3, 2011, shows French soldiers patrolling as part of the French Force Licorne, in Port Bouet district of Abidjan, Saturday, April, 2, 2011. The United Nations mission in Ivory Coast began moving some 200 employees out of the main city Sunday after repeated attacks on its headquarters, as fighters loyal to the internationally recognized president prepared for a battle to oust the incumbent leader. (AP Photo/Sch. Blanchet, ECPAD) NO SALES (AP)

Rukmini Callimachi, Marco Chown Oved

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President Barack Obama makes a statement on Libya, Friday, March 18, 2011, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo) (AP)

Bradley Klapper

American Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice speaks to reporters after a Security Council meeting on the situation in Libya, Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo) (AP)

Edith M. Lederer

France's Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, left, welcomes, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, right, for a Group of Eight Foreign Ministers meeting in Paris, Tuesday, March 15, 2011.(AP Photo/Michel Euler) (Picasa 2.6)

Obama has little hope for UN no-fly zone measure

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