Afghanistan

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** FILE ** An Afghan policeman and security forces stand guard in front of former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani's house after he was killed in suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

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** FILE ** An Afghan soldier takes position under a huge poster of Afghan President Hamid Karzai with his late brother Ahmad Wali Karzai, during a gun battle with militants in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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** FILE ** Afghan President Hamid Karzai talks to one of elders during the funeral ceremony of former president Burhanuddin Rabbani at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday Sept. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

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An Afghan police officer (left) looks at a police vehicle damaged in a suicide attack in Lashkar Gah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaleq)

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai (left) prays during a memorial service for former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani at the mosque of the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

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A protester in Multan, Pakistan, shout slogans at an anti-American rally on Friday, Sept. 23, 2011, to condemn the United States for accusing Pakistan's most powerful intelligence agency of supporting extremist attacks against American targets in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)

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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta (left) looks on as Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011, before the Senate Armed Services Committee on U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and Iraq. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

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A man holds a poster of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, the High Peace Council leader who was assassinated Tuesday, during a rally in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

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**FILE** This photo from Jan. 21, 2002, shows Burhanuddin Rabbani, former president of Afghanistan sitting in his office in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, file photo, former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, head of the Afghan High Peace Council, speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan. Two Afghan government sources said Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011, Mr. Rabbani has been killed in the capital Kabul. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)

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A military helicopter belonging to coalition forces flies around a building during a gunbattle with Taliban militants in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday Sept. 14,2011. The 20-hour insurgent attack in the heart of the capital ended Wednesday morning after a final volley of helicopter gunfire as Afghan police ferreted out and killed the last few assailants who had taken over a half-built downtown building to fire on the nearby U.S. Embassy and NATO compounds. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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Afghan security forces are seen in a high-rise building during a gunbattle with al-Qaeda- and Taliban-affiliated Haqqani militants in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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An Afghan soldier takes position near the building which is occupied by militants in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept. 13, 2011. Taliban insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of the Afghan capital Tuesday in a brazen attack two days after the United States marked the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Dust rises over Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept. 13, 2011, as Taliban insurgents fire rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of the Afghan capital. (Associated Press)

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An Afghan soldier takes position near the building which is occupied by militants in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept. 13, 2011. Taliban insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of the Afghan capital in a brazen attack two days after the United States marked the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. (Associated Press)

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Lt. Col. Daniel Wilson lights a candle Sunday at Forward Operating Base Bostick in Kunar province, Afghanistan, in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the attacks and the soldiers his Hawaii-based unit has lost since then in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Associated Press)