Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir attends a major conference of Islamists in Khartoum on November 15, 2012. Thousands of government-linked Islamists met in Sudan, including the exiled political chief of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas Khaled Meshaal, whose visit came as warplanes from the Jewish state pounded Gaza for a second day, in Israel's toughest assault on the territory in four years. AFP PHOTO/ASHRAF SHAZLY (Photo credit should read ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images)