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Azim Aga, right, from northern Baghlan province, a fresh police recruit, smiles during a break at the police academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. "Right now the police who are on the street are not educated and are from the jihad, a reference to Afghanistan's successive wars, 'We will be proud policemen.'" Aga said. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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Men line up to join the Afghan National Police force outside the registration center in Kabul, Afghanistan. On average 10 policemen die every day in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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Men line up to join the Afghan National Police force at the registration center in Kabul, Afghanistan. On average 10 policemen die every day in Afghanistan. In one 10 month period 1,417 police were killed, according to the interior ministry. This compares to 348 international troops killed since Jan. 1, including 260 American service members. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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Men who just joined the Afghan National Police force wait to be driven to their new outpost straight from the registration center in Kabul, Afghanistan. On average 10 policemen die every day in Afghanistan. In one 10 month period 1,417 police were killed, according to the interior ministry. This compares to 348 international troops killed since Jan. 1, including 260 American service members. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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Afghan National Police instructor Ghulam Hazrat, left, 70, instructs recruits at the police academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. On Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, President Hamid 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. But international observers warn that the largely illiterate police force will disintegrate after 2014 into factional militias more loyal to local warlords than to the state. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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This Oct. 30, 2012 aerial photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows damage to the New Jersey shoreline during a search and rescue mission by 1-150 Assault Helicopter Battalion, New Jersey Army National Guard. By late Tuesday, the winds and flooding inflicted by the fast-weakening superstorm Sandy had subsided, leaving at least 55 people dead along the Atlantic Coast and splintering beachfront homes and boardwalks from the mid-Atlantic states to southern New England. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen)

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This image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows attempts to rescue the wounded following heavy bombing from military warplanes in Idlib, in northern Syria, on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. Syrian warplanes launched 60 airstrikes against rebel targets around the country on Monday, the most intense air raids across the country since the uprising began 19 months ago, according to anti-regime activists. At least 500 people were killed over the four-day period ending Monday when a U.N.-backed truce was supposed to be in effect, activists said, and the death toll for Monday so far has reached 80. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

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In this Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, photo, a Syrian woman is stopped and questioned by rebels at a checkpoint in the Bustan Al-Pasha neighborhood, the boundary of the rebel-controlled area at the northeast limit of the Sheikh Maaksoud neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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In this Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, photo, destroyed buildings are seen along a desolated street in the Bustan Al-Pasha district after several weeks of intense battles between rebel fighters and the Syrian army in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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In this Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, photo, a rebel fighter belonging to the Qatebee Sokor Al-Islam group sneaks through a residential building as he looks for a firing position during clashes between rebel fighters and the Syrian army in the Jedida district of Aleppo, Syria. Syrian fighter jets pounded rebel areas across the country on Monday with scores of airstrikes that anti-regime activists called the most widespread bombing in a single day since Syria's troubles started 19 months ago.(AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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In this Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, photo, night falls on a Syrian rebel checkpoint in the Bustan Al-Pasha neighborhood, the boundary of the area controlled by rebel fighters at the northeast limit of the Kurdish-controlled area of Sheikh Maksoud in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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In this Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, photo, a rebel fighter poses holding handcuffs in the front-line neighborhood of Bustan Al-Pasha shortly after an army jet hits the rebel position in northeast Aleppo, Syria. Syria's air force fired missiles and dropped barrel bombs on rebel strongholds while opposition fighters attacked regime positions, flouting a U.N.-backed cease-fire that was supposed to quiet fighting over a long holiday weekend but never took hold. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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In this Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, photo, a street of shattered buildings is viewed partially through a mirror used by rebel fighters to keep an eye on their enemy's positions in the Karm al-Jabel battlefield in Aleppo, Syria. Syria's air force fired missiles and dropped barrel bombs on rebel strongholds while opposition fighters attacked regime positions, flouting a U.N.-backed cease-fire that was supposed to quiet fighting over a long holiday weekend but never took hold. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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In this Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, photo, a rebel sniper aims at Syrian army positions in the Jedida district of Aleppo, Syria. Syrian fighter jets pounded rebel areas across the country on Monday with scores of airstrikes that anti-regime activists called the most widespread bombing in a single day since Syria's troubles started 19 months ago. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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In this Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, photo, a rebel sniper aims at a Syrian army position, seen with another rebel fighter reflected in a mirror, in a residential building in the Jedida district of Aleppo, Syria. Syrian fighter jets pounded rebel areas across the country on Monday with scores of airstrikes that anti-regime activists called the most widespread bombing in a single day since Syria's troubles started 19 months ago. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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This image taken from video obtained from the Ugarit news network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows smoke rising following heavy bombing from military warplanes in Deir el-Zour's Jbeileh neighborhood, 450 km northeast of Damascus, Syria, on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. Syrian warplanes launched 60 airstrikes against rebel targets around the country on Monday, the most intense air raids across the country since the uprising began 19 months ago, according to anti-regime activists. Activists said at least 500 people were killed over the four-day period ending Monday when a U.N.-backed truce was supposed to be in effect. They said the death toll for Monday so far has reached 80. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

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Destroyed buildings line a desolated street in the Bustan Al-Pasha district of Aleppo, Syria, on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, after several weeks of intense battles between rebel fighters and the Syrian army. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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** FILE ** Part of the Yarmouk military complex in Khartoum, Sudan seen in a satellite image made on October 25 2012, following an alleged attack. A U.S. monitoring group says satellite images of the aftermath of an explosion at a Sudanese weapons factory suggest the site was hit by an airstrike. The Sudanese government has accused Israel of bombing its Yarmouk military complex on Oct 23, killing two people and leaving the factory in ruins. (AP Photo/ DigitalGlobe via Satellite Sentinel Project, File)