PARIS - APRIL 07: French Police officer arrests a Pro Tibet demonstrator in front of the Eiffel Tower as the Olympic Torch Relay pass by on April 7, 2008 in Paris, France. Pro Tibet protests have continued at Olympic torch relay in Paris, following 37 arrests that disrupted London?s torch relay on Sunday (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
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MOSCOW, RUSSIA - MARCH 02: (RUSSIA OUT) Russian soldiers queue at a polling station as Russians go to the polls on March 2, 2008 in Moscow. The presidential election is seen by critics as rigged to hand victory to Putin''s chosen successor Dmitry Medvedev. (Photo by Epsilon/Getty Images)
MUNICH, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 21: An amusement park ride in the evening is seen during day 2 of the Oktoberfest beer festival on September 21, 2008 in Munich, Germany. The Oktoberfest is seen as the biggest beer festival worldwide. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)
LONDON - JULY 26: Presumptive U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama speaks to the press outside Number 10 Downing Street after meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on July 26, 2008 in London. Senator Obama has spent the day meeting with British political leaders in London before flying back to the US later. (Photo by Bruno Vincent/Getty Images)
BELGRADE, SERBIA - FEBRUARY 21: Several tenthousand serbian rotesters gather in front of the Serbian government building during a mass protest rally against Kosovo''s declaration of independence February 21, in Belgrade, Serbia. After this demonstration serbian nationalists sets fire in the United States embassy. (Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images)
MITROVICA, SERBIA - FEBRUARY 17: Kosovo Albanians celebrate on the day their prime minister proclaimed Kosovo "an independent, sovereign and democratic state" February 17, 2008 in Mitrovica, Serbia. Kosovo declared itself a nation February 17, admidst bitter protest from Serbia and Russia, but with the backing of the United States. The Kosovo province has been under United Nations occupation since NATO forces drove the Serbian military and government out in 1999. (Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images)
THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS - JULY 31: Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic makes an initial appearance at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on July 31, 2008 in the Hague, The Netherlands. Karadzic was formally charged on 11 counts for war crimes commited during the Bosnian war of the 1990s, following his arrest in Belgrade last week and extradition to the Netherlands after evading capture for 13 years. Karadzic has 30 days to enter a plea. (Photo by Serge Ligtenberg/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Radovan Karadzic
GORI, GEORGIA - AUGUST 12: (TURKEY OUT) A woman talks with a priest after her house was hit by a Russian shell on August 12, 2008 in Gori, Georgia. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered an end to the military operations against Georgia, which had been widely condemned by the internationally community. Following their sustained incursion into the disputed Georgia region of South Ossetia, Russian troops have been given orders to withdraw. (Photo by Burak Kara/Getty Images)
GORI, GEORGIA - AUGUST 11: (ISRAEL OUT) Georgian soldiers escape their burning armoured vehicle on the road to Tbilisi on August 11, 2008 just outside Gori, Georgia. Russia called today for Georgian forces to surrender in the separatist enclave of Abkhazia after Georgia called a ceasefire and withdrew their forces from South Ossetia, leaving Russian forces now firmly in control in the disputed region. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
TSKINVALI, SOUTH OSSETIA - AUGUST 21: A woman talks down a destroyed main street August 21, 2008 in a suburb of Tskinvali, the capital of the Georgian breakaway province of South Ossetia. South Ossetia has been de facto independent from Georgia since the early 1990s, and the two sides have had frequent shelling skirmishes in recent years (including last week''s war) resulting in massive destruction of certain neighborhoods in the provincal capital. South Ossetia has been forging closer ties with Russia in the aftermath of the Russia-Georgian war. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
