Afghanistan

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President Obama addresses military personnel who recently returned from Afghanistan on Friday, May 6, 2011, at Fort Campbell, Ky. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

** FILE ** In this Dec. 24, 1998, file photo, Muslim militant and al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden speaks to a selected group of reporters in mountains of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahimullah Yousafzai, File)

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An Afghan reads about the death of Osama bin Laden in a newspaper published in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, May 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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Associated Press Afghan President Hamid Karzai, addressing a gathering at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday lauded Osama bin Laden's death as a serious blow to terrorism.

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Photojournalist John Cantlie's novel "River City" is illustrated with more than 100 photographs of Americans fighting in Afghanistan, including this image. Mr. Cantlie spent five months on the front line in Afghanistan. (Provided by John Cantlie)

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** FILE ** In this July 15, 2009, file photo released by Department of Defense, “Three Cups of Tea” co-author Greg Mortenson shows the locations of future village schools to U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the opening of Pushghar Village Girls School 60 miles north of Kabul in Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Department of Defense, U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley)

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Abdullah Abdullah, the opposition leader in Afghanistan, says he will run again for the Afghan presidency in 2014. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)

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An Afghan laborer works at the brick factory in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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Protesters demonstrate in Laghman, Afghanistan, on Monday, April 4, 2011, against a Florida pastor's burning of the Quran, making four straight days of demonstrations, some deadly. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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U.S. soldiers stand guard in front the gate of a U.S. base after an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, April 2, 2011. Three insurgents attacked a NATO base on the outskirts of Afghanistan's capital Saturday but were killed by coalition forces before they could enter the compound, NATO and Afghan police said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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In this photo provided by the International Security Assistance Force Regional Command (South), Zabul provincial government officials exit a CH-47 Chinook helicopter to attend the Afghan local police validation ceremony at the Shah Joy district center on Monday, March 28, 2011, in Afghanistan's Zabul province. (Photo/U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson)

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Afghan children play on a destroyed Soviet-made armored tank in Panjshir, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, March 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Ahmad Nazar)

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** FILE ** Afghan police stop people outside the Sakhi shrine during Nawroz, a new year ceremony, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, March 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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** FILE ** An Afghan woman walks past a shrine at a graveyard in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, addresses the Royal United Services Institute in London on Wednesday, March 23, 2011. Gen. Petraeus said foreign troops are on course to complete their security role in Afghanistan by the end of 2014, but he has warned that progress easily could be reversed. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a graduation ceremony for Afghan military officers at the National Military Academy of Afghanistan in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, March 22, 2011. Mr. Karzai said Afghan security forces soon will take charge of securing seven areas around the country. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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**FILE** A photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows an F-15E Strike eagle in-flight over Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2008. (Associated Press/U.S Air Force/Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon)

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An Afghan woman walks past a shrine at a grave yard in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Insurgents killed more Afghan civilians last year than ever before, and their roadside bombs, suicide attacks and assassinations were responsible for the overwhelming majority of conflict-related deaths in 2010, the United Nations said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the situation in Afghanistan. At left is Defense Under Secretary for Policy Michele Flournoy. (AP Photo)

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U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, testifies Tuesday on Capitol Hill before the Senate Armed Services Committee. (Associated Press)