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    Intense Firefight in Korengal Valley, Afghanistan
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    Navy Seals in Afghanistan
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    Empire - Obama and Afghanistan - 29 Apr 09 - Part 1
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    Rethink Afghanistan War (Part 5): Women of Afghanistan
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    Rethink Afghanistan War (Part 4): Civilian Casualties
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    U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, is greeted by top NATO commander Gen. David Petraeus as he arrives in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010.
    photo: AP / Jim Watson, Pool
    The New York Times: Gates Lands in Afghanistan
    An F/A-18 Hornet assigned to the “Checkerboards” of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron Three One Two (VMFA-312) patrols the skies over Afghanistan as part of a mission in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, and the continued war on terrorism. VMFA-312 ass
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    Chicago Sun-Times: Afghanistan War casualties from Illinois
    File - MARSOC Marines take a knee in a wheat field in Suji as Afghan National Army Soldiers and Marine Special Operation Command Marines patrol through the village in Farah Prov., Bala Baluk District, Afghanistan, March 29.
    photo: USAF file / Staff Sergeant Nicholas Pilch
    The Daily Telegraph: American deaths in Afghanistan surpass highest annual record
    Afghan National Police in Lashkar Gah
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    The Examiner: No way to tell which is worse Gaza, Iraq, Afghanistan, Balochistan , says Amnesty official
    Afghan soldiers chat in front of the main office of Kabul Bank in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010.
    photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq
    Gulf News: Afghanistan takes over biggest private bank to avert collapse
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    Daily Star Lebanon: Taliban footprint 'spreading' across Afghanistan, claims Petraeus
    Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. (js1)
    photo: AP / Jose Luis Magana
    Yahoo Daily News: Clinton condemns election-linked killings in Afghanistan
    Afghanistan, terrorist vehicle
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    The Examiner: Army Military Police killed by terrorist insurgents in Afghanistan
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    Orange News: Clegg Visits UK Troops In Afghanistan
    President Barack Obama makes a statement on the capping of the BP well in the Gulf, Friday, July 16, 2010, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington,
    photo: AP / Susan Walsh
    Chicago Sun-Times: Obama should rethink Afghanistan timeline
    Afghans are destroying a poppy field
    photo: Public Domain / High Contrast
    Taipei Times: Afghanistan watches wheat prices in face of shortfall
    Chacon herat spanish army
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    Star Tribune: 7 US troops killed in latest Afghanistan fighting, bringing August total to 42
    Wheat Foodgrain in a grocery shop India
    photo: WN / Geeta
    Yahoo Daily News: Afghanistan eyes wheat price amid import needs
    Smoke rises outside an airfield used by Afghan and international forces in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 30, 2010.
    photo: AP
    Khaleej Times: Taliban attack U.S. base in Afghanistan's east
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    Hartford Courant: Services set for CT soldier killed in Afghanistan
    An Afghan police man stands guard near the site of a suicide attack on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009. A suicide bomber in a car attacked a convoy of foreign troops in the Afghan capital Sunday, but there was no immediate word on casualties, a police officer said. Taliban militants claimed responsibility for th
    photo: AP / Rafiq Maqbool
    The Independent: Militants kill eight policeman in Northern Afghanistan
    U.S. Vice President Joe Biden waves as he arrives in Georgia's capital Tbilisi, Wednesday, July 22, 2009
    photo: AP / Shakh Aivazov
    The Examiner: VP Biden visits while insurgents killed and captured in Afghanistan
    A relative stands by the coffins of people killed in an overnight NATO raid in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, June 28, 2010.
    photo: AP / Rahmat Gul
    The New York Times: New Case of Civilian Killings Investigated in Afghanistan
    Lance Corporals Daniel Garner (left), a rifleman, and Chris Ducharme, a mortarman, both with 3rd Platoon, India Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, investigate a possible improvised explosive device while on a patrol in Marjah, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Feb. 22, 2010. The suspected IED turned out to be nothing of concern. Marines and Afghan national army soldiers patrolled through a residential area of the city to carry out counterinsurgency operations as part of Operation Moshtarak, a push to rid Marjah of Taliban presence and intimidation.
    photo: USAF / Lance Cpl. Tommy Bellegarde
    The Times of India: No south Afghanistan security handover for a 'few years': US
    U.S. Army Pvt. John Torres, of Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, Task Force Lethal Warrior, provides over watch security in Qatar Kala, Afghanistan, on May 6, 2010.
    photo: US Army / Spc. David A. Jackson
    Zeenews: Afghanistan security force more than a year away
    Joe Biden
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    The Times of India: US making measurable progress in Afghanistan: Biden
    U.S. Army General David H. Petraeus, Commander, International Security Assistance Force, speaks to key NATO and U.S. Forces leadership at a Commander's conference Aug. 14, 2010, in Kabul, Afghanistan.
    photo: USAF / Staff Sgt. Bradley Lail
    BBC News: Can 'the Petraeus factor' succeed in Afghanistan?
    Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of U.S. Central Command, puts on a Navy ball cap during an all-hands call at Naval Support Activity Bahrain.
    photo: US Navy / U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Felix Garza Jr.
    The Guardian: Petraeus: No sudden troops exodus from Afghanistan
    A British Royal Marine Commando puts on his pack after receiving supplies on a hill in southeast Afghanistan, Monday, May 20, 2002 after a supply drop. The Royal Marine Commandos were sent to the area after Australian Special Air Service (SAS) troops were fired upon and chased by suspected al-Qaida and Taliban members.
    photo: AP / Mandel Ngan/POOL
    Yahoo Daily News: NATO General warns of tough battles in Afghanistan
    U.S.Army in Afghanistan
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    The Guardian: 4 US troops killed in eastern Afghanistan
    Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai gestures after taking the oath during his inauguration as President of Afghanistan in the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009.
    photo: AP / Anja Niedringhaus
    Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai gestures after taking the oath during his inauguration as President of Afghanistan in the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009.
    Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai conducts a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2010.
    photo: US DoD / Cherie Cullen
    Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai conducts a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2010.
    AFGHANISTAN EAGLE - An F-15E Strike Eagle jet flies over Afghanistan providing overwatch for ground operations, Nov. 13, 2008 The Strike Eagle is assigned to the 391st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.
    photo: USAF / Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon
    AFGHANISTAN EAGLE - An F-15E Strike Eagle jet flies over Afghanistan providing overwatch for ground operations, Nov. 13, 2008 The Strike Eagle is assigned to the 391st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.
    Burqa clad women leave Afghanistan at the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan in Torkham, Pakistan, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2001. Women in Afghanistan are forced to cover themselves from head to toe with the burqa. Thousands are fleing Afghanistan on Sat
    photo: AP Photo
    Burqa clad women leave Afghanistan at the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan in Torkham, Pakistan, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2001. Women in Afghanistan are forced to cover themselves from head to toe with the burqa. Thousands are fleing Afghanistan on Sat
    Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, is seen in meeting with Pakistan Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayyat, not shown, at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 12, 2004. The Afghanistan Presidential election will take place on Oct.9, 2004, according to the Afghanistan Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB).
    photo: AP / Manish Swarup
    Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, is seen in meeting with Pakistan Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayyat, not shown, at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 12, 2004. The Afghanistan Presidential election will take place on Oct.9, 2004, according to the Afghanistan Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB).
    Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, left, takes the presidential oath besides Afghanistan's Chief Justice Abdul Salam Azimi during his inauguration as President of Afghanistan at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. After being sworn in to a second five-year term, Karzai said his government was doing whatever it could to implement reforms.
    photo: AP / Anja Niedringhaus
    Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, left, takes the presidential oath besides Afghanistan's Chief Justice Abdul Salam Azimi during his inauguration as President of Afghanistan at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. After being sworn in to a second five-year term, Karzai said his government was doing whatever it could to implement reforms.
    Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, the U.K. ambassador to Afghanistan, talks to a local employee in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2007. The ambassador, in a recent interview to The Associated Press said
    photo: AP / Saurabh Das
    Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, the U.K. ambassador to Afghanistan, talks to a local employee in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2007. The ambassador, in a recent interview to The Associated Press said "it matters to us because a high proportion of the terrorism investigations in the U.K. can be traced back to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area," about Britain's recent efforts at a stronger commitment to Afghanistan.
    Afghanistan Army soldiers prepare for the arrival of President Hamid Karzai during Afghanistan´s first presidential inauguration in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec 7, 2004. ula1
    photo: U.S. Army
    Afghanistan Army soldiers prepare for the arrival of President Hamid Karzai during Afghanistan´s first presidential inauguration in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec 7, 2004. ula1
    BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Daily life in an Afghanistan village near Bagram Air Base where U.S. military personnel are in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom
    photo: US Navy file/Chief Photographer´s Mate Johnny Bivera
    BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Daily life in an Afghanistan village near Bagram Air Base where U.S. military personnel are in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom
    Afghanistan's presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah holds for a moment before announcing his decision not to participate in Afghanistan's run-off election during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009.
    photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq
    Afghanistan's presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah holds for a moment before announcing his decision not to participate in Afghanistan's run-off election during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009.
    Afghanistan's presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah is seen after announcing his decision not to participate in Afghanistan's run-off election during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009.
    photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq
    Afghanistan's presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah is seen after announcing his decision not to participate in Afghanistan's run-off election during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009.
    U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates conducts a press conference with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2010.
    photo: US DoD / Cherie Cullen
    U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates conducts a press conference with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2010.
    An Afghan elder places his votes into the local and country wide ballot boxes during the heavily anticipated Afghanistan elections, Aug. 20, Barg e Matal, Afghanistan. Afghanistan village elders are considered to be the role models and leaders among the Afghan civilians.
    photo: US Army / Public Domain
    An Afghan elder places his votes into the local and country wide ballot boxes during the heavily anticipated Afghanistan elections, Aug. 20, Barg e Matal, Afghanistan. Afghanistan village elders are considered to be the role models and leaders among the Afghan civilians.
    Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai conduct a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, June 4, 2007.
    photo: Public Domain / Cherie A. Thurlby
    Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai conduct a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, June 4, 2007.
    Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates conducts a press conference with President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2010.
    photo: US DoD / Cherie Cullen
    Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates conducts a press conference with President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2010.
    An Afghan cycles past an election poster of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday Sept. 8, 2009.
    photo: AP / Farzana Wahidy
    An Afghan cycles past an election poster of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday Sept. 8, 2009.
    The U.N. special representative to Afghanistan Kai Eide gestures during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, April 9, 2008.
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    The U.N. special representative to Afghanistan Kai Eide gestures during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, April 9, 2008.
    A U.S. soldier walks in the snow at a forwarding base in Orgun-E in eastern Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007. Orgun-E is one of the largest of about a dozen similar bases along the eastern border with Pakistan and across southern Afghanistan that are still engaged in combat operations in Afghanistan.
    photo: AP photo / Rafiq Maqbool
    A U.S. soldier walks in the snow at a forwarding base in Orgun-E in eastern Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007. Orgun-E is one of the largest of about a dozen similar bases along the eastern border with Pakistan and across southern Afghanistan that are still engaged in combat operations in Afghanistan.
    Democratic Republic of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, photographed during a Graduation Ceremony, for the Afghanistan National Army (ANA) held at the KABUL Military Training Center in KABUL, Afghanistan. wnhires
    photo: USAF file/SRA Bethann Hunt
    Democratic Republic of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, photographed during a Graduation Ceremony, for the Afghanistan National Army (ANA) held at the KABUL Military Training Center in KABUL, Afghanistan. wnhires
    US special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke left, is photographed with a U.S. soldier during his visit to a U.S military base in Ghazni, Afghanistan,Friday, July 24, 2009. President Barack Obama's special envoy for the region said Afghanistan's upcoming presidential contest will be imperfect, but the country cannot be held to a standard that even the U.S. struggled to achieve. As violence escalates elsewhere, two American troops were killed in southern Afghanistan.
    photo: AP / Fisnik Abrashi
    US special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke left, is photographed with a U.S. soldier during his visit to a U.S military base in Ghazni, Afghanistan,Friday, July 24, 2009. President Barack Obama's special envoy for the region said Afghanistan's upcoming presidential contest will be imperfect, but the country cannot be held to a standard that even the U.S. struggled to achieve. As violence escalates elsewhere, two American troops were killed in southern Afghanistan.
    Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai walk together on the Presidential compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2010.
    photo: US DoD / Cherie Cullen
    Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai walk together on the Presidential compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2010.
    U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan William Wood visits Provincial Reconstruction Team Khost to meet with Soldiers, Sailors and Afghans helping to win the war in Afghanistan.
    photo: US Navy / Ensign Christopher Weis (RELEASED)
    U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan William Wood visits Provincial Reconstruction Team Khost to meet with Soldiers, Sailors and Afghans helping to win the war in Afghanistan.
    A portrait of missing Pakistan Ambassador to Afghanistan Tariq Azizuddin is shown to the media in Kabul, Afghanistan, jsa1
    photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq
    A portrait of missing Pakistan Ambassador to Afghanistan Tariq Azizuddin is shown to the media in Kabul, Afghanistan, jsa1
    A journalist photographs Afghanistan's presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah's election poster pinned on the hall where Abdullah announced his decision not to participate in Afghanistan's run-off election at a gathering in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009.
    photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq
    A journalist photographs Afghanistan's presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah's election poster pinned on the hall where Abdullah announced his decision not to participate in Afghanistan's run-off election at a gathering in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009.
    President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai greets Afghani national army and local government officials in the Kunar province of Afghanistan May 18, 2006.
    photo: US Army file/Spc. Michael Zuk
    President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai greets Afghani national army and local government officials in the Kunar province of Afghanistan May 18, 2006.
    U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, is greeted by top NATO commander Gen. David Petraeus as he arrives in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. An F/A-18 Hornet assigned to the “Checkerboards” of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron Three One Two (VMFA-312) patrols the skies over Afghanistan as part of a mission in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, and the continued war on terrorism. VMFA-312 ass File - MARSOC Marines take a knee in a wheat field in Suji as Afghan National Army Soldiers and Marine Special Operation Command Marines patrol through the village in Farah Prov., Bala Baluk District, Afghanistan, March 29. Afghan National Police in Lashkar Gah Afghan soldiers chat in front of the main office of Kabul Bank in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. File:General Petraeus Testifies .jpg Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. (js1) Afghanistan, terrorist vehicle 100207-X-XXXXX-4 President Barack Obama makes a statement on the capping of the BP well in the Gulf, Friday, July 16, 2010, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Afghans are destroying a poppy field Chacon herat spanish army Wheat Foodgrain in a grocery shop India Smoke rises outside an airfield used by Afghan and international forces in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Afghanistan An Afghan police man stands guard near the site of a suicide attack on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009. A suicide bomber in a car attacked a convoy of foreign troops in the Afghan capital Sunday, but there was no immediate word on casualties, a police officer said. Taliban militants claimed responsibility for th U.S. Vice President Joe Biden waves as he arrives in Georgia's capital Tbilisi, Wednesday, July 22, 2009 A relative stands by the coffins of people killed in an overnight NATO raid in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, June 28, 2010. Lance Corporals Daniel Garner (left), a rifleman, and Chris Ducharme, a mortarman, both with 3rd Platoon, India Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, investigate a possible improvised explosive device while on a patrol in Marjah, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Feb. 22, 2010. The suspected IED turned out to be nothing of concern. Marines and Afghan national army soldiers patrolled through a residential area of the city to carry out counterinsurgency operations as part of Operation Moshtarak, a push to rid Marjah of Taliban presence and intimidation. U.S. Army Pvt. John Torres, of Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, Task Force Lethal Warrior, provides over watch security in Qatar Kala, Afghanistan, on May 6, 2010. Joe Biden U.S. Army General David H. Petraeus, Commander, International Security Assistance Force, speaks to key NATO and U.S. Forces leadership at a Commander's conference Aug. 14, 2010, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of U.S. Central Command, puts on a Navy ball cap during an all-hands call at Naval Support Activity Bahrain. A British Royal Marine Commando puts on his pack after receiving supplies on a hill in southeast Afghanistan, Monday, May 20, 2002 after a supply drop. The Royal Marine Commandos were sent to the area after Australian Special Air Service (SAS) troops were fired upon and chased by suspected al-Qaida and Taliban members. U.S.Army in Afghanistan Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai gestures after taking the oath during his inauguration as President of Afghanistan in the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai conducts a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2010. AFGHANISTAN EAGLE - An F-15E Strike Eagle jet flies over Afghanistan providing overwatch for ground operations, Nov. 13, 2008 The Strike Eagle is assigned to the 391st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. Burqa clad women leave Afghanistan at the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan in Torkham, Pakistan, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2001. Women in Afghanistan are forced to cover themselves from head to toe with the burqa. Thousands are fleing Afghanistan on Sat Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, is seen in meeting with Pakistan Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayyat, not shown, at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 12, 2004. The Afghanistan Presidential election will take place on Oct.9, 2004, according to the Afghanistan Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB). Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, left, takes the presidential oath besides Afghanistan's Chief Justice Abdul Salam Azimi during his inauguration as President of Afghanistan at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. After being sworn in to a second five-year term, Karzai said his government was doing whatever it could to implement reforms. Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, the U.K. ambassador to Afghanistan, talks to a local employee in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2007. The ambassador, in a recent interview to The Associated Press said Afghanistan Army soldiers prepare for the arrival of President Hamid Karzai during Afghanistan´s first presidential inauguration in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec 7, 2004. ula1 BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Daily life in an Afghanistan village near Bagram Air Base where U.S. military personnel are in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom Afghanistan's presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah holds for a moment before announcing his decision not to participate in Afghanistan's run-off election during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009. Afghanistan's presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah is seen after announcing his decision not to participate in Afghanistan's run-off election during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009. U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates conducts a press conference with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2010. An Afghan elder places his votes into the local and country wide ballot boxes during the heavily anticipated Afghanistan elections, Aug. 20, Barg e Matal, Afghanistan. Afghanistan village elders are considered to be the role models and leaders among the Afghan civilians. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai conduct a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, June 4, 2007. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates conducts a press conference with President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2010. An Afghan cycles past an election poster of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday Sept. 8, 2009. The U.N. special representative to Afghanistan Kai Eide gestures during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, April 9, 2008. A U.S. soldier walks in the snow at a forwarding base in Orgun-E in eastern Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007. Orgun-E is one of the largest of about a dozen similar bases along the eastern border with Pakistan and across southern Afghanistan that are still engaged in combat operations in Afghanistan. Democratic Republic of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, photographed during a Graduation Ceremony, for the Afghanistan National Army (ANA) held at the KABUL Military Training Center in KABUL, Afghanistan. wnhires US special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke left, is photographed with a U.S. soldier during his visit to a U.S military base in Ghazni, Afghanistan,Friday, July 24, 2009. President Barack Obama's special envoy for the region said Afghanistan's upcoming presidential contest will be imperfect, but the country cannot be held to a standard that even the U.S. struggled to achieve. As violence escalates elsewhere, two American troops were killed in southern Afghanistan. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai walk together on the Presidential compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 8, 2010. U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan William Wood visits Provincial Reconstruction Team Khost to meet with Soldiers, Sailors and Afghans helping to win the war in Afghanistan. A portrait of missing Pakistan Ambassador to Afghanistan Tariq Azizuddin is shown to the media in Kabul, Afghanistan, jsa1 A journalist photographs Afghanistan's presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah's election poster pinned on the hall where Abdullah announced his decision not to participate in Afghanistan's run-off election at a gathering in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009. President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai greets Afghani national army and local government officials in the Kunar province of Afghanistan May 18, 2006.


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