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Posted: 6/18/2013 2:56:30 PM EST
Australia's Mark Bresciano, left, kicks the ball behind his back during their World Cup soccer Asian qualifying match against Iraq at the Sydney Olympic Stadium in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Australia won the match 1-0 and qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
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Posted: 6/18/2013 2:56:30 PM EST
Australia's captain Lucas Neill, center right, carries teammate Luke Wilkshire after their victory over Iraq in their World Cup soccer Asian qualifying match at the Sydney Olympic Stadium in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Australia won the match 1-0 and qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
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Posted: 6/18/2013 2:56:30 PM EST
Australia's teammates celebrate their victory over Iraq in their World Cup soccer Asian qualifying match at the Sydney Olympic Stadium in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Australia won the match 1-0 and qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
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Posted: 6/16/2013 1:11:02 PM EST
FILE - In this file photo from Aug. 27, 1992, a year after the first Gulf War, U.S. President George H. Bush speaks at a White House news conference, wherein he announced a "no fly zone" over Iraq in which Iraqi warplanes would be shot down if they flew below the 32nd parallel. Though U.S. jets flew over the vast Iraqi desert every day for more than a decade, they could not prevent then-dictator Saddam Hussein, a Sunni Muslim, from persecuting and killing hundreds of thousands of Shiites whom he viewed as a political threat to his regime. (AP Photo/Greg Gibson, File)
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Posted: 6/16/2013 1:11:02 PM EST
FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2002, file photo Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld speaks at a Pentagon news conference to criticize Iraq for continuing to fire on U.S. and British warplanes patrolling over two no-fly zones. Ten years after the 1992 establishment of the first no-fly zone over Iraq, and despite daily U.S. jet flights to enforce it, the U.S. did not prevent then-dictator Saddam Hussein, a Sunni Muslim, from persecuting and killing hundreds of thousands of Shiites whom he viewed as a political threat to his regime. That failure is now being used as a case in point of why the U.S. should, or shouldn't, police Syria's skies to prevent Syrian President Bashar Assad from accelerating a two-year death toll that last week reached 93,000. (AP Photos/Susan Walsh, File)
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Posted: 6/16/2013 1:11:02 PM EST
FILE - In this April 30, 2013, file photo President Barack Obama answers questions at a White House news conference in Washington, where he strongly suggested he'd consider military action against Syria if it could be confirmed that President Bashar Assad's government used chemical weapons in the two-year-old civil war. Seeking to avoid getting sucked deeper into Syria's civil war, the Obama administration has long pointed to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq as a symbol of what can go wrong when America's military wades into Middle East conflicts. But experts say the White House is looking at the wrong Iraq war, especially as it weighs whether to impose a no-fly zone over Syria. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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Posted: 6/15/2013 1:22:11 PM EST
FILE -- Sunni protesters wave Islamist flags while others chant slogans at an anti-government rally in Fallujah, Iraq, Friday, May 3, 2013. The leader of al-Qaida's Iraq arm, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, defiantly rejected an order from the terror network's global command to scrap a merger with the organization's Syria affiliate, according to a message purporting to be from Al-Baghdadi that was posted online Saturday, June 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Bilal Fawzi, File)
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Posted: 6/15/2013 1:22:11 PM EST
FILE - Masked Sunni protesters wave Islamist flags while others chant slogans at an anti-government rally in Fallujah, Iraq, Friday, April 26, 2013. The leader of al-Qaida's Iraq arm, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, defiantly rejected an order from the terror network's global command to scrap a merger with the organization's Syria affiliate, according to a message purporting to be from Al-Baghdadi that was posted online Saturday, June 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Bilal Fawzi, File)
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Posted: 6/11/2013 2:58:32 PM EST
FILE - In this April 29, 2013 file photo, bombing victim, Bashar Muhsin, 28, is taken for burial in Najaf, Iraq. Signs are growing that stretches of Iraq and Syria are morphing into a single battlefield for militants, exacerbating Iraq’s slide into renewed deadly chaos a decade after Saddam Hussein’s fall. Iraqi border posts are coming under attack, fighters are criss-crossing the frontier, and Syrian truck drivers and soldiers have been slain by militants inside Iraq. It’s happening as the drumbeat of violence inside Iraq surges to levels not seen in half a decade _ back when U.S. troops were still here to help keep the peace. (AP Photo/ Alaa al-Marjani, File)
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Posted: 6/11/2013 2:58:32 PM EST
FILE - In this May 30, 2013 file photo, Iraqis gather at the scene of a bomb attack in the commercial area of Karradah in Baghdad, Iraq. Signs are growing that stretches of Iraq and Syria are morphing into a single battlefield for militants, exacerbating Iraq’s slide into renewed deadly chaos a decade after Saddam Hussein’s fall. Iraqi border posts are coming under attack, fighters are criss-crossing the frontier, and Syrian truck drivers and soldiers have been slain by militants inside Iraq. It’s happening as the drumbeat of violence inside Iraq surges to levels not seen in half a decade _ back when U.S. troops were still here to help keep the peace. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban, File)
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Posted: 6/11/2013 2:58:32 PM EST
FILE - In this May 27, 2013 file photo, Iraqis gather at the scene of a car bomb attack at a used cars dealers parking lot in Habibiya neighborhood of eastern Baghdad, Iraq. Signs are growing that stretches of Iraq and Syria are morphing into a single battlefield for militants, exacerbating Iraq’s slide into renewed deadly chaos a decade after Saddam Hussein’s fall. Iraqi border posts are coming under attack, fighters are criss-crossing the frontier, and Syrian truck drivers and soldiers have been slain by militants inside Iraq. It’s happening as the drumbeat of violence inside Iraq surges to levels not seen in half a decade _ back when U.S. troops were still here to help keep the peace. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim, File)
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Posted: 6/11/2013 2:58:32 PM EST
FILE - In this Feb.17, 2013 file photo, Iraqis inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in the Ameen neighborhood of eastern Baghdad, Iraq. Signs are growing that stretches of Iraq and Syria are morphing into a single battlefield for militants, exacerbating Iraq’s slide into renewed deadly chaos a decade after Saddam Hussein’s fall. Iraqi border posts are coming under attack, fighters are criss-crossing the frontier, and Syrian truck drivers and soldiers have been slain by militants inside Iraq. It’s happening as the drumbeat of violence inside Iraq surges to levels not seen in half a decade _ back when U.S. troops were still here to help keep the peace. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed, File)
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Posted: 6/11/2013 2:58:32 PM EST
FILE - In this May 27, 2013 file photo, Security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in the Baghdad, Iraq. Signs are growing that stretches of Iraq and Syria are morphing into a single battlefield for militants, exacerbating Iraq’s slide into renewed deadly chaos a decade after Saddam Hussein’s fall. Iraqi border posts are coming under attack, fighters are criss-crossing the frontier, and Syrian truck drivers and soldiers have been slain by militants inside Iraq. It’s happening as the drumbeat of violence inside Iraq surges to levels not seen in half a decade _ back when U.S. troops were still here to help keep the peace. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed, File)
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Posted: 6/11/2013 2:58:32 PM EST
FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2013 file photo, Protesters chant slogans against the Iraq's Shiite-led government as they wave national flags during a demonstration in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Signs are growing that stretches of Iraq and Syria are morphing into a single battlefield for militants, exacerbating Iraq’s slide into renewed deadly chaos a decade after Saddam Hussein’s fall. Iraqi border posts are coming under attack, fighters are criss-crossing the frontier, and Syrian truck drivers and soldiers have been slain by militants inside Iraq. It’s happening as the drumbeat of violence inside Iraq surges to levels not seen in half a decade _ back when U.S. troops were still here to help keep the peace. (AP Photo, File)
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Posted: 6/11/2013 2:58:32 PM EST
Syrian refugees leave Iraq to Syria to reunite with their families at a bus station in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Signs are growing that stretches of Iraq and Syria are morphing into a single battlefield for militants, exacerbating Iraq’s slide into renewed deadly chaos a decade after Saddam Hussein’s fall. Iraqi border posts are coming under attack, fighters are criss-crossing the frontier, and Syrian truck drivers and soldiers have been slain by militants inside Iraq. It’s happening as the drumbeat of violence inside Iraq surges to levels not seen in half a decade _ back when U.S. troops were still here to help keep the peace. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)
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Posted: 6/11/2013 2:58:32 PM EST
Syrian refugees leave Iraq to Syria to reunite with their families at a bus station in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Signs are growing that stretches of Iraq and Syria are morphing into a single battlefield for militants, exacerbating Iraq’s slide into renewed deadly chaos a decade after Saddam Hussein’s fall. Iraqi border posts are coming under attack, fighters are criss-crossing the frontier, and Syrian truck drivers and soldiers have been slain by militants inside Iraq. It’s happening as the drumbeat of violence inside Iraq surges to levels not seen in half a decade _ back when U.S. troops were still here to help keep the peace. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)
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Posted: 6/11/2013 2:58:32 PM EST
Syrian refugees leave Iraq to Syria to reunite with their families at a bus station in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Signs are growing that stretches of Iraq and Syria are morphing into a single battlefield for militants, exacerbating Iraq’s slide into renewed deadly chaos a decade after Saddam Hussein’s fall. Iraqi border posts are coming under attack, fighters are criss-crossing the frontier, and Syrian truck drivers and soldiers have been slain by militants inside Iraq. It’s happening as the drumbeat of violence inside Iraq surges to levels not seen in half a decade _ back when U.S. troops were still here to help keep the peace. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)
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Posted: 6/11/2013 2:58:32 PM EST
FILE - In this March 16, 2013, a suspected al-Qaida member is detained in an Iraqi SWAT raid in Latifiyah, Iraq. Signs are growing that stretches of Iraq and Syria are morphing into a single battlefield for militants, exacerbating Iraq’s slide into renewed deadly chaos a decade after Saddam Hussein’s fall. Iraqi border posts are coming under attack, fighters are criss-crossing the frontier, and Syrian truck drivers and soldiers have been slain by militants inside Iraq. It’s happening as the drumbeat of violence inside Iraq surges to levels not seen in half a decade, back when U.S. troops were still here to help keep the peace. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani, File)
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Posted: 6/11/2013 10:36:32 AM EST
In this March 29, 2013 photo provided by the French Army's images division, ECPAD, a French soldier holds the launch tube of an SA-7 surface-to-air missile before its destruction in Timbuktu, northern Mali. The knowledge that the terrorists have the weapon has already changed the way the French are carrying out their five-month-old offensive in Mali. They are using more fighter jets rather than helicopters to fly above its range of 1.4 miles (2.3 kilometers) from the ground, even though that makes it harder to attack the jihadists. They are also making cargo planes land and take off more steeply to limit how long they are exposed, in line with similar practices in Iraq after an SA-14 hit the wing of a DHL cargo plane in 2003. (AP Photo/ECPAD, Olivier Debes)
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Posted: 6/10/2013 4:35:10 PM EST
A member of Iraq security personnel inspects the site of a car bomb attack at Jadidat al-Shatt in Diyala province, 40 km (25 miles) north of Baghdad, June 10, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer
