
AFTERMATH: Israeli soldiers are treated Thursday after a shooting attack along the border between Israel and Egypt. Assailants armed with heavy weapons and explosives crossed into southern Israel from the Sinai Peninsula, killing eight Israelis and wounding at least a dozen in Eilat. (Associated Press)

In this video image taken from Egyptian State Television, the sons of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Gamal (right) and Alaa, leave the defendants' cage in a Cairo courtroom on Monday, Aug. 15, 2011, after the presiding judge adjourned the trial until Sept. 5. (AP Photo/Egyptian State Television)

An Egyptian boy sits on the shoulders of a man during a protest against the Syrian regime, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Aug. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

EMOTIONAL: Protesters clash outside the Cairo courthouse where ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's trial started Wednesday. The ailing ex-president arrived by helicopter and was wheeled in on a hospital gurney. (Associated Press)

ON TRIAL: Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak lies on a hospital gurney in a cage of mesh and bars in a Cairo courtroom Wednesday as his trial begins. (Egyptian State TV via Associated Press)

An elderly Egyptian protester chants anti-military ruling council prayers during a demonstration on July 8, 2011, following the Muslims' weekly Friday prayers, part of nationally organized protests called "The revolution first" at the main Arba'in square in Suez, Egypt. (Associated Press)

Protesters in Martyrs Square in Suez, Egypt, on Tuesday, July 5, 2011, demonstrate with placards that read in Arabic, "Open strike there is retribution" (center); "I'm a thug" (right), which ridicules official accusations that protesters are violent thugs; and "Revolutionaries but they call us thugs." (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

** FILE ** An Egyptian spice dealer organizes products that include fenugreek seeds at his shop in Cairo on Thursday, June 30, 2011. The European Union on Tuesday temporarily banned the import of fenugreek seeds from Egypt after some were linked to a deadly outbreak of E. coli in Germany and France. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Flames rise near El-Arish, Egypt, 30 miles from the border with Israel, on Monday, July 4, 2011, after unidentified assailants blew up the Egyptian pipeline that carries gas to Israel and Jordan. (AP Photo)