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In this Wednesday, July 28, 2010 file picture, Lt. Matt Fryer smiles as he lifts his one-and-a-half-year-old daughter Clarity on the tarmac at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D. Lt. Fryer was among 350 airmen returning home to the South Dakota airbase after being deployed in Southeast Asia for six months in support of the 28th Bomb Wing whose B-1 bombers supply long-range and close air support to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Steve McEnroe, File)
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In this Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2001 file picture, a fighter with the northern-based alliance opposed to Afghanistan's Taliban rulers fires at Taliban positions on a frontline outpost in northern Takhar province in Puli Khumri Hill, Afghanistan, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the border with Tajikistan. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File)
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n this Sunday, Sept. 10, 2006 file picture, a girl holds her grandfather's cane as he carries aid supplies distributed by the U.S. Army at Kandagal, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das, File)
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In this Sept. 23, 2009 file photo, soldiers from the U.S. Army's 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment (Airborne, based at Fort Richardson, Alaska, fire a 120mm mortar during a fire mission at the combat outpost Zerok in East Paktika province in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh, File)
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In this Monday March 8, 2010 file picture, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, left, speaks with Commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal during a meeting in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool, File)
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In this Sunday, Oct. 7, 2001 U.S. Navy handout file picture, a Tomahawk cruise missile is launched from the USS Philippine Sea against military targets and Osama bin Laden's training camps inside Afghanistan. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Terry Cosgrove, File)
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In this Friday Nov. 2, 2001 file picture, Taliban fighters, one carrying a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, foreground, and one carrying a heavy machine gun, walk through the ruins of a mud house near Kandahar, Afghanistan. (AP Photo, File)
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In this Nov. 3, 2009 file photo, Cpl. Casey Liffrig, left, leaps for cover as Lt. Thomas Goodwin gets down as Taliban fighters ambush U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division during a patrol in the Pech Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)
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In this Monday, April 28, 2008 file picture, relatives mourn over the body of lawmaker Fazel Rahman Samkanai at the hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. Samkanai, who was about 30 yards away from President Hamid Karzai, was killed when suspected Taliban militants attacked a ceremony marking the 16th anniversary the defeat of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in Kabul on Sunday. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
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In this Monday Sept. 27, 2010 photo reviewed by the U.S. military, the top American commander in Afghanistan Gen. David Petraeus, center, tours the grounds of the U.S.-run Parwan detention facility near Bagram north of Kabul, Afghanistan. The U.S. military opened the new prison named after the surrounding Parwan province in November to replace the original facility in an effort to improve living conditions and reintegration programs. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)
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In this Monday, Sept. 11, 2006 file picture, tears run down the cheeks of U.S. Staff Sgt. Alicia Watkins from Washington D.C. as she salutes during a ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks at a U.S. military base in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)
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In this Friday, May 28, 2010 file picture, police officers walk past a burning oil tanker carrying fuel supplies for NATO forces after it was attacked on Jalalabad highway, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
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In this Monday, Oct. 7, 2002 file picture, a U.S. Air Force pilot in an A-10 Thunderbolt attack jet returns from a combat mission, in Bagram air base, northeast of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)
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In this Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2001 file picture, Marine Lance Cpl. Chris McNeely, right, of Whiting, Kan., holds his battlefield hymnal as he attends a memorial service at Camp Rhino in southern Afghanistan, to commemorate the three-month anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, Pool, File)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009, U.S. Marines with Alpha Company-Task Force Raider, 2nd Recon Battalion lie down inside a small patrol base during a pause in an all night mission in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan. Task Force Raider is a strike force which conducts raids targeting Taliban networks in the Helmand province. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
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In this Saturday, March 15, 2008 file picture, thousands of anti-war protesters walk past the Houses of Parliament in central London, calling for troops to be pulled out from Iraq and Afghanistan and to mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)
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In this Thursday July 29, 2010 file picture, Tech. Sgt. Jeff Hedglin, right, and Senior Airman Robert Dieguez, both U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen, or PJs, place into a body bag, the remains of one of two U.S. soldiers killed minutes earlier in an IED attack, as soldiers, unseen wait to carry them away, upon landing after a helicopter rescue mission in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
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In this Monday, Nov. 14, 2005 file picture, police officers secure the area in front of a burning international peacekeeper vehicle after a second suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, and just minutes before a third attempt in the same site. Two separate suicide attackers rammed cars laden with explosives into NATO peacekeepers in the Afghan capital, killing at least one German soldier and wounding eight other people. Peacekeepers opened fire to thwart a suspected third bombing attempt, killing three people. (AP Photo/Tomas Munita, File)
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In this Sunday, June 26, 2005 file picture, a CH-47 Chinook helicopter lifts off after dropping off soldiers in the village of Bagh in the Khakeran Valley, Zabul province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Tomas Munita, File)
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In this Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008 file picture, Pakistani army 130mm artillery guns fire towards militant positions in the Bajur tribal region on the border with Afghanistan, Pakistan. Pakistan is battling surging attacks by al-Qaida and Taliban militants. Most of them are based in the rugged and lawless tribal region across from Afghanistan, where U.S. and NATO forces are fighting an increasingly tenacious Islamist insurgency. Al-Qaida leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri are believed to be hiding somewhere along the border. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
