Pakistani border guards stand near Afghanistan-bound NATO trucks parked on the roadside in Pakistani tribal area of Khyber on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010. Pakistan closed the Khyber Pass supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan on Thursday after a coalition helicopter attack mistakenly killed three Pakistani soldiers at a border post, raising tensions in a vital relationship for both Islamabad and Washington. (AP Photo/Mohammad Iqbal)
Afghanistan-bound NATO trucks carrying supplies for NATO forces make their way through the Pakistani border town of Chaman on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010. Pakistan blocked a vital supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan on Thursday in apparent retaliation for a purported cross-border helicopter strike by the coalition that killed three Pakistani frontier troops. (AP Photo/Shah Khalid)
** FILE ** Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, speaks in September 2010 with Afghan military personnel during a tour of the U.S. run-Parwan detention facility north of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo)
Smoke rises after NATO aircraft conducted an air strike near the Arghandab river, south of Senjeray village, Kandahar province, where U.S. commanders had identified as insurgent positions Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Todd Pitman)
A Pakistani officer in Peshawar displays recovered equipment of NATO forces fighting in neighboring Afghanistan on Monday. The paramilitary Frontier Corps has recovered a variety of military gear stolen from NATO convoys in recent months in Pakistan's Khyber tribal region, official said. (Associated Press)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (left), NATO Deputy Secretary General Claudio Bisogniero (center) and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen attend the NATO-Russia Council ministerial meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010, in New York. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
Smoke rises after NATO aircraft conducted an airstrike near the Arghandab River south of the village of Senjeray in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, where U.S. commanders had identified insurgent positions on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Todd Pitman)
Smoke rises after NATO aircrafts conducted an air strike near the Arghandab river, south of Senjeray village, Kandahar province, where U.S. commanders had identified as insurgent positions Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Todd Pitman)
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, is greeted by top NATO commander Gen. David Petraeus as he arrives in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)
An Afghan National Army soldier stands near the body of a suicide attacker near a NATO base in Khost province of Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. Insurgents launched pre-dawn attacks Saturday on a major NATO base in eastern Afghanistan and a nearby camp where seven CIA employees were killed last year in a suicide bombing. NATO said there were no coalition casualties and the attacks were repelled. It said 13 insurgents were killed, four of whom were wearing suicide vests, and five captured. (AP Photo/Nishanuddin Khan)
Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NB) speaks before U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses the Washington Strategic Concept Seminar on the future of NATO in Washington on February 22, 2010. UPI/Alexis C. Glenn.
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At top, Afghan policemen watch a NATO vehicle burn in late July after a convoy was hit by a suicide attack in Jalalabad. Arab and other foreign fighters with ties to al Qaeda are infiltrating the mountains of eastern Afghanistan.Afghan firemen try to extinguish a burning oil tanker in early June after an explosive device planted under it exploded near a NATO air base in Jalalabad, east of Kabul.
"We are doing everything we can to achieve progress as rapidly as we can without rushing to failure," said Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan. (Associated Press)
**FILE** In this photo from May 28, 2010, local Afghan residents watch a burning oil tanker that was carrying fuel supplies for NATO forces after it was allegedly attacked by Taliban on a Jalalabad highway, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)
An Afghan mourns for relatives who other mourners say were killed by NATO forces during a raid in the Sayed Abad district of Wardak province west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Naikzad)
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LOSING HEARTS AND MINDS: During a protest in Kabul on Sunday, hundreds of Afghans carry posters of civilians said to have been killed by U.S. and NATO forces.
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)
Recruited Afghan soldiers march for an oath-taking ceremony with a Turkish military officer, front center, at the Ghazi Military Training Center, where they are being trained by Turkish military officers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, July 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
A U.S. helicopter lands near recruited Afghan soldiers during an oath taking ceremony at the Ghazi Military Training Center, where they are being trained by Turkish military officers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, July 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, salutes during an oath-taking ceremony of recruited Afghan soldiers at the Ghazi Military Training Center, where the newcomers are being trained by Turkish military officers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, July 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)