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The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) transits the Strait of Hormuz, in this November 12, 2011 file photo. Iran's army chief told the United States that a U.S. aircraft carrier which left the area because of Iranian naval exercises should not return to the Gulf, the state news agency reported on Janurary 3, 2012. REUTERS/U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kenneth Abbate/Handout

News Corp Chief Executive and Chairman Rupert Murdoch holds a copy of The Times newspaper as he leaves his home in London. Murdoch has rung in the New Year with a new Twitter account that includes praise for Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum and opinions on President Barack Obama's policies and the Steve Jobs biography. REUTERS/Andrew Winning

A man walks down the stairs of the Imam Al-Khoei Foundation, a Shiite organization, that was hit by a firebomb on Sunday night is seen in the Queens borough of New York January 2, 2012. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

A child sings as people demand for transparency from the National Transitional Council (NTC) and its head Mustafa Abdel Jalil during a protest in the city center of Benghazi, December 16, 2011. Libyans with ties to ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi will be banned from running in elections under a bill drafted by the country's new rulers. REUTERS/Esam Al-Fetori

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak lies on a gurney bed while leaving the courtroom at the police academy in Cairo, January 2, 2012. REUTERS/Stringer

Arab League observers in yellow jackets are seen with anti-government protesters on the streets in Idlib December 30, 2011. Syria's military has withdrawn from residential areas and is on the outskirts of the country's cities, but gunfire continues and snipers are still a threat, Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby said on Monday. REUTERS/Handout

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers his speech during the opening session of the Global Progress Foundation Conference in Madrid October 18, 2011. British police have found evidence that private investigators working for newspapers hacked into the email account of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown while he was finance minister, The Independent newspaper reported on Monday. Hundreds of other people may have also had their emails intercepted, perhaps as many as were caught up in the phone hacking scandal at News International's now defunct News of the World tabloid, the paper said. REUTERS/Sergio Perez

A Taiwan Air Force US-made F-16 fighter jet performs a low altitude fly-by on a highway used as an emergency landing strip during a military drill in Jiadong, Pingtung County, southern Taiwan November 17, 2011. Booming Middle East purchases of U.S. fighter jets will be a bright spot in what is expected to be a sluggish economy in 2012, possibly paying dividends for President Barack Obama's bid for a second term. REUTERS/Pichi Chuang

Republican presidential candidate and Representative Michele Bachmann makes a campaign phone call to a supporter from her office in Urbandale, Iowa December 31, 2011. Facing colossal odds in the Republican nomination race, presidential candidate Michele Bachmann cast her struggle in Biblical terms on Sunday in a late attempt to win over conservative voters. REUTERS/Joshua Lott

A military personnel checks a new medium-range missile before its test fire during Velayat-90 war game on Sea of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran January 1, 2012. REUTERS/Jamejamonline/Ebrahim Norouzi