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This Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows an aerial view of the roller coaster from the Seaside Heights amusement park on the New Jersey shore submerged in surf, taken during a search-and-rescue mission by 1-150 Assault Helicopter Battalion, New Jersey Army National Guard. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen)
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People walk among rubble at the site of a fuel truck explosion in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012. A fuel truck exploded after hitting portions of a bridge Thursday in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, engulfing buildings and cars in flames and killing dozens of people and injuring scores, witnesses and officials said. (AP Photo)
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In this Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012 photo, a police instructor passes by a wall painting at the police academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
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Afghan police officers line up to wash their hands before breakfast at the police academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
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Police officers line up to take their tea pots for breakfast at the police academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. The readiness of AfghanistanÃs security forces is central to U.S. and NATO plans to withdraw all forces from the country by the end of 2014, and the academyÃs new commander wants to help turn around a 146,000-strong national police force long riddled with corruption, incompetence and factional rivalries. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
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Afghan National Police officers line up for breakfast after prayers at the police academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
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Afghan National Police Academy Director Maula Dad Pazoish tries out a table football in a recreation room at the police academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. "The people brought into the police are bringing a bad name to the police, not just in Kabul but all over in the provinces. They are bringing us a bad reputation because of lack of education", Maula said. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
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An Afghan instructor instructs a police student shooting with live ammunition at the police academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
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Afghan National Police line up after the official ceremony to take down the flag at the end of the day at their base in Lashkar Gah, Helmand, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. In eastern Afghanistan a suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle near the gate of a U.S.- Afghan combat outpost Wednesday, wounding at least 10 Afghan soldiers. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
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Recruits exercise in formation at the National Police Academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
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Police officers participate in early morning prayers inside a mosque at the police academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
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Afghan National Police officers navigate a ropes course during a training session at the police academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
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Afghan National Police recruits study their notes on how to use a Kalashnikov rifle during a training session at the police academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. The readiness of Afghanistan's security forces is central to U.S. and NATO plans to withdraw all forces from the country by the end of 2014, and the academy's new commander wants to help turn around a 146,000-strong national police force long riddled with corruption, incompetence and factional rivalries. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
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A new recruit of the Afghan National Police force, right, is driven to his new outpost straight from the registration center in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
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A police recruit looks up to a picture of Afghan President Hamid Karzai in his sleeping quarters at the National Police Academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. On Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, Karzai said that his military and police are prepared to take full responsibility for security if the American-led international coalition decides to speed up the handover. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
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Seven veteran with the Afghan National Police, Zalmai Faizi, from Ghazni province, talks in Kabul, Afghanistan about his children. Earlier this October, Faizi buried his 5-year-old daughter, Ennah, and 18-year-old son, Zalkai. Taliban roared up to his home on two motorcycles, spraying his police car with bullets, killing them both. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)