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The six American civilian health-care volunteers who were killed in Afghanistan on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010, are (clockwise from top left) Dan Terry, Cheryl Beckett, Glen Lapp, Tom Little, Thomas Grams and Brian Carderelli. (AP Photo)
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Afghan police officers stand alert on the back of a police pickup truck at the scene of militants attack in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Aug 10, 2010. Two suicide attackers struck a building rented by a private security company in Afghanistan's capital Tuesday, detonating their explosive vests to kill two company drivers, police said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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Afghan security force soldiers rush to the scene of a militant attack in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Two suicide attackers struck a building rented by a private security company in Afghanistan's capital Tuesday, detonating their explosive vests to kill two company drivers, police said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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Afghan police officers block traffic near the scene of a militant attack in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Two suicide attackers struck a building rented by a private security company in Afghanistan's capital Tuesday, detonating their explosive vests to kill two company drivers, police said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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An Afghan security man covers a body at the scene of a militant attack in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Two suicide attackers struck a building rented by a private security company in Afghanistan's capital Tuesday, detonating their explosive vests to kill two company drivers, police said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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An Afghan security man carries evidences, passing by logo of a police vehicle at the scene of militants attack in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Two suicide attackers struck a building rented by a private security company in Afghanistan's capital Tuesday, detonating their explosive vests to kill two company drivers, police said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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Dirk Frans (center), director of the International Assistance Mission, talks to a journalist during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. The Christian charity said it had no plans to leave Afghanistan despite the murders of 10 members of its medical aid team, and it repeated that the organization does not attempt to convert Muslims to Christianity. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Tom Little (top center in blue shirt with baseball cap), an optometrist and team leader with the International Assistance Mission, joins villagers and other team members in Afghanistan in this undated photo. (AP Photo/Provided by David L. Evans)
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In this undated photo released by David L. Evans, Tom Little, right, optometrist and team leader with the International Assistance Mission, watches as an unidentified doctor examines a patient in an Afghanistan clinic. Members of a medical team, including Tom Little, were shot and killed by militants as they were returning from providing eye treatment and other health care in remote villages in northern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the team said Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010. Tom Little, an optometrist from Delmar, New York, has been working in Afghanistan for more than 30 years, according to Dirk Frans, director of the International Assistance Mission. (AP Photo/Provided by David L. Evans)
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A man walks out of the office of the International Assistance Mission on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Ten members of International Assistance Mission medical team, including six Americans, were shot and killed by militants as they were returning from a two-week trip providing eye and other health care in remote villages of northern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ahmad Massoud)
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President Obama speaks about Iraq and Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, at the Disabled American Veterans national convention in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Obama speaks about Iraq and Afghanistan , Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, at the Disabled American Veterans national convention in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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A U.S. soldier helps an Afghan army soldier, one of two wounded in a rocket-propelled grenade attack, to an evacuation helicopter in the Arghandab district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, on Monday Aug. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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In this photograph made on Thursday, July 29, 2010, upon landing after a helicopter rescue mission, Tech. Sgt. Jeff Hedglin, right, an Air Force Pararescueman, or PJ, drapes an American flag over the remains of the first of two U.S. soldiers killed minutes earlier in an IED attack, assisted by fellow PJs, Senior Airman Robert Dieguez, center, and 1st Lt. Matthew Carlisle, in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. July 2010 was the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly 9-year Afghan War. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Afghan women chant slogans against NATO and U.S. forces during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010, in condemnation of the alleged killing of Afghan civilians by NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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In this photograph made on Thursday July 29, 2010, upon landing after a helicopter rescue mission, Tech. Sgt. Jeff Hedglin, right, an Air Force Pararescueman, or PJ, drapes an American flag over the remains of the first of two U.S. soldiers killed minutes earlier in an IED attack, assisted by fellow PJs, Senior Airman Robert Dieguez, center, and 1st Lt. Matthew Carlisle, in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. July 2010 was the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly 9-year Afghan War. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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**FILE** U.S. Army troops from the 1st Battalion 320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, duck July 22, 2010, as an Afghan soldier fires a rocket propelled grenade towards insurgent positions at Combat Outpost Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)
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U.S. soldiers stand guard as a medical helicopter arrives to evacuate a soldier from 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, Friday, July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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An M-14 sniper rifle sits beside a watch tower as smoke rises in the background after U.S. soldiers blew up a mud wall which Taliban insurgents were using as cover to attack troops from the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division at Combat Outpost Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Thursday, July 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, July 29, 2010. Mr. Karzai says the release of secret documents have endangered the lives of Afghan citizens who have cooperated with the international forces. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
