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Afghan police shout at photographers to prevent them approaching the entrance of a damaged shopping complex after a suicide bomber detonated a cache of explosives inside the building in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011. The explosion rocked the shopping and hotel complex and killed at least two people, officials said, in the second attack in less than a month in the heavily secured Afghan capital. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
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An Afghan policeman guards the Kabul City Center shopping mall in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011, after a suicide bomber detonated a cache of explosives. The blast rocked the shopping and hotel complex, killing at least two people, officials said, in the second attack in less than a month inside the heavily secured Afghan capital. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
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U.S. Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, the commander of NATO's mission to train Afghan policemen and soldiers, speaks with the Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011. Gen. Caldwell said more nations are pledging support, yet the coalition still faces a shortage of 740 trainers needed to get the Afghan security forces ready to take the lead in securing their nation by the end of 2014. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
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An Afghan policeman runs to the scene of an explosion in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Police say the bomb exploded in a crowded intersection, but there were no reports of any fatalities. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is seated at the podium during the International Conference on Security Policy in Munich on Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
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Pakistani displaced people arrive at a camp set up in Naghi, 11 miles northwest of the Afghanistan border in the Pakistani tribal area of Mohmand on Jan. 31, 2011. About 22,000 Pakistani villagers have fled military operations against Islamist militants in a tribal region near the Afghan border, a government administrator and the army said on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Anwarullah Khan)
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** FILE ** In this photo provided by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Sen. Jon Tester (right), Montana Democrat, and Army Lt. Gen. David M. Rodriguez, commander of the ISAF Joint Command and deputy commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, speak with the governor of Kandahar province, Tooryalai Wesa, concerning the current status of his province during a briefing at the governor's palace on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011, in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Chief Jason Carter)
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An Afghan policeman stands near a vehicle which carried the deputy governor of Kandahar province, Abdul Latif Ashna, in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle packed with explosives rammed into the car, killing the deputy governor and wounding three of his bodyguards, the Interior Ministry said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
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Employees run through a burning supermarket in central Kabul, Afghanistan, that was rocked by an explosion Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. A suicide bomber killed eight people, including five foreigners, inside the store. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai salutes to members of a guard of honor during the inauguration of new parliament in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, Jan.26, 2011. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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Former legislator Najibullah Mujahed (center, in the background) addresses demonstrators on a loudspeaker on Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011, in Kabul, Afghanistan, during a protest against the Afghan parliament elected in September. The protesters urged President Hamid Karzai not to inaugurate the new legislative body. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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** FILE ** Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai gestures during a joint press conference in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia, Friday, Jan. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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Sedaqalluh Haqiq, who heads a tribunal set up by Afghanistan's Supreme Court, prays at the end of a press event in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. The tribunal called Wednesday for a one-month delay in the opening of the parliamentary session to further investigate charges of electoral fraud. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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Afghan soldiers block the scene of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011. A suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up next to a minibus carrying intelligence service employees in the Afghan capital. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. arrives by helicopter at Forward Operating Base Airborne in Afghanistan's Wardak province on Tuesday. He noted coalition successes against the Taliban but said the gains are "fragile and reversible." (Associated Press)
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., center, alights from a helicopter as he arrives at a forward operating base Airborne, in Maidan Shar, in Afghanistan's Wardak province, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. (right) speaks with Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, during a press event in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. Mr. Biden is in Afghanistan on a surprise visit to assess progress in handing over security from foreign to Afghan forces. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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Helmand's Gov. Gulab Mangal, left, shakes hand with U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, NATO's top commander in Afghanistan, in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Heidi Vogt)
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An Afghan boy pushes his wheelbarrow past oil tankers parked near the Afghan-Iran border at Islam Qala, on the outskirts of Herat, Afghanistan, west of Kabul, on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011. Iran's decision to stop up to 2,500 fuel trucks at its border with Afghanistan is tantamount to an "embargo," an Afghan commerce official said Tuesday, as others warned the move could leave millions of Afghans shivering as winter rolls in. (AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi)
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011, during a gathering to mark the seventh anniversary of the adoption of the Afghanistan Constitution. The writing behind him says, "Welcome to the adoption day of Afghanistan's Constitution." (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
