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This image made from a gun camera video released during a Pentagon Briefing in Washington on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2001, shows an explosion during a strike by U.S. forces on a surface to air missile site located inside Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Department of Defense, File)
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** FILE ** In this Wednesday, April 13, 2005, file picture, then-U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, left, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai give a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Tomas Munita, File)
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In this Wednesday, July 28, 2010 file picture, U.S. Army Lt. Christopher Babcock looks at the body of a suspected Taliban fighter killed by U.S. soldiers from 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, while local people say the man was a farmer from Samir Kalacha village in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
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In this Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009 file picture, President Barack Obama, right, salutes as a carry team walks with the transfer case containing the remains of Army Sgt. Dale R. Griffin of Terre Haute, Ind., who died in Afghanistan according to the Department of Defense, during a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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In this Sunday, Oct. 14, 2001 file picture, 1-year-old Azizullah lies in the arms of his father Ahmanzai at the hospital in the city of Jalalabad, Afghanistan. They were allegedly wounded in the village of Karam, some 50 km (30 miles) west of Jalalabad, Afghanistan during a U.S. air attack. According to the Taliban government, who organized a visit to the village by foreign journalists, around 200 civilians were killed in Karam on Thursday, during a U.S. air attack. (AP Photo/Enric Marti, File)
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** FILE ** In this May 11, 2009, file photo, soldiers from the U.S. Army First Battalion, 26th Infantry take defensive positions at firebase Restrepo after receiving fire from Taliban positions in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar Province. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)
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In this Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010 file picture, newly trained female officers of Afghan National Army take front seats as a new group of officers attend their graduation ceremony at National Army's training center in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/ Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)
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In this July 7, 2008 file photo, an police officer walks among the dead and wounded bodies at the site of a suicide attack near the Indian Embassy in central Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Pajhwok News Agency, File)
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**FILE** In this photo from May 6, 2009, President Obama speaks to reporters after his meeting with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai (left) and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in the Grand Foyer of the White House. (Associated Press)
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In this July 8, 2009 file photo, U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 1st Battalion 5th Marines sleep in their fighting holes inside a compound where they stayed for the night, in the Nawa district of Afghanistan's Helmand province. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)
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In this Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010 file picture, a U.S. soldier returns fire as others run for cover during a firefight with insurgents in the Badula Qulp area, West of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, near Marjah, where U.S. Marines are conducting an offensive against the Taliban. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)
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In this Feb. 2, 2002 file photo, a suspected al-Qaida or Taliban detainee from Afghanistan is carried on a stretcher before being interrogated by military officials at the detention facility Camp X-Ray on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
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In this Thursday, July 29, 2010 file picture, Spc. Dallas Purdy from Hockley, Texas, hangs a message of support from friends Ashley and Katie Daniels while serving with the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division at COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
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In this Wednesday Feb. 17, 2010 file picture, U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Christopher Whitman, from Clearwater, Fla., and from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment kicks in a door to search a compound while on a patrol in Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)
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In this May 2, 2008 file photo, U.S. Marines, from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, return fire on Taliban positions near the town of Garmser in Helmand Province of Afghanistan. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)
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In this Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009 file picture, a child looks on as military vehicles of 5th Striker Brigades drive past his village on the outskirts of Spin Boldak, about 100 kilometers (63 miles) southeast of Kandahar, Afghanistan. Thousands of U.S. troops are deploying in southern Afghanistan as part of an effort to prevent the Taliban from disrupting the country's Aug. 20 presidential ballot. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
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In this Wednesday, July 28, 2010 file picture, Lt. Matt Fryer smiles as he lifts his one-and-a-half-year-old daughter Clarity on the tarmac at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D. Lt. Fryer was among 350 airmen returning home to the South Dakota airbase after being deployed in Southeast Asia for six months in support of the 28th Bomb Wing whose B-1 bombers supply long-range and close air support to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Steve McEnroe, File)
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In this Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2001 file picture, a fighter with the northern-based alliance opposed to Afghanistan's Taliban rulers fires at Taliban positions on a frontline outpost in northern Takhar province in Puli Khumri Hill, Afghanistan, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the border with Tajikistan. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File)
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n this Sunday, Sept. 10, 2006 file picture, a girl holds her grandfather's cane as he carries aid supplies distributed by the U.S. Army at Kandagal, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das, File)
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In this Friday, July 30, 2010 file picture, a U.S. medical helicopter arrives to evacuate a soldier from the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, who was seriously wounded when he stepped on an improvised mine near Combat Outpost Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
