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Afghan policeman stand guard near burning NATO supply trucks following an attack by militants on a U.S. base in the Torkham area near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Jalalabad province east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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** FILE ** Afghan men prepare the graves of 14 civilians, killed a bomb explosion in Nangarhar province’s Ghany Khel district, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai (foreground) inspects the guard of honor during Independence Day celebrations at the Defense Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Aug 19, 2013. Mr. Karzai and Cabinet members attended a parade on Monday to mark the event, which commemorates the day Afghanistan signed a treaty with Britain in 1919 making it independent. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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Afghan men prepare graves of 14 people killed by a bomb explosion for a funeral ceremony in Nangarhar province’s Ghany Khel district, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 8, 2013. The bomb killed the single family as they were marking the start of a major Muslim holiday with a visit to the tombs of relatives. (Associated Press)
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A dozen senators — Republicans and Democrats, led by Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican — are not happy about the Defense Department buying 30 helicopters destined for Afghanistan that it bought from a Russian manufacturer.
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Security officials conduct investigation at the scene of suicide bomb attacks in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Saturday, 3, 2013. Three suicide attackers killed at least nine civilians, most of them children, in a botched attack Saturday on the Indian consulate in an eastern Afghan city near the border with Pakistan, security officials said. (Associated Press)
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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell is part of a delegation that traveled to Kuwait and Afghanistan this week to visit troops (Photo courtesy of the Department of Defense)
