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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)

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Kashmiris shout pro-freedom slogans as relatives and friends carry the body of Afroza Wani on a stretcher outside a hospital in Srinagar, India, on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010. Four people were killed Sunday by security forces who opened fire on thousands of protesters at two separate places in increasingly violent Indian Kashmir, bringing the death toll from weeks of clashes to 27. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

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Iraqi soldiers secure a street in the Azamiyah neighborhood in Baghdad on Saturday, July 31, 2010, after authorities announced a partial lifting of a curfew imposed on the Sunni neighborhood on Thursday following a brazen daylight attack by al Qaeda militants. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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In this photograph made on Thursday July 29, 2010, upon landing after a helicopter rescue mission, Tech. Sgt. Jeff Hedglin, right, an Air Force Pararescueman, or PJ, drapes an American flag over the remains of the first of two U.S. soldiers killed minutes earlier in an IED attack, assisted by fellow PJs, Senior Airman Robert Dieguez, center, and 1st Lt. Matthew Carlisle, in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan. July 2010 was the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly 9-year Afghan War. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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In this July 19, 2010, file photo, family members receive flags during a funeral service for Missouri Army National Guard Sgt. Robert Wayne Crow in Liberty, Mo. Crow, 42, of Kansas City, Mo., died July 10 in Paktika, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device. NATO announced Friday, July 30, 2010, that six more U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 66 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly 9-year-old war. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

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In this July 26, 2010, file photo, An Army carry team carries a transfer case containing the remains of Spc. Joseph A. Bauer at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Bauer, of Cincinnati, died while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. NATO announced Friday, July 30, 2010, that six more U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 66 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly 9-year-old war. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark, File)

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A sign asking for privacy is posted on the front door of the home of Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, Thursday, July 29, 2010, in Seattle. According to a senior U.S. military official and Afghan officials, Newlove, the second U.S. Navy sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan was found dead and his body recovered. The family of Newlove, 25, had been notified of his death, the U.S. military official said on the condition of anonymity, because he was not authorized to disclose the information. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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**FILE** U.S. Army troops from the 1st Battalion 320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, duck July 22, 2010, as an Afghan soldier fires a rocket propelled grenade towards insurgent positions at Combat Outpost Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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An M-14 sniper rifle sits beside a watch tower as smoke rises in the background after U.S. soldiers blew up a mud wall which Taliban insurgents were using as cover to attack troops from the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division at Combat Outpost Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Thursday, July 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, July 29, 2010. Mr. Karzai says the release of secret documents have endangered the lives of Afghan citizens who have cooperated with the international forces. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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U.S. soldiers and a local Afghan man carry an Afghan boy who stepped on an IED which severed his right foot and most of a hand to a U.S. Air Force Pave Hawk helicopter operated by the 58th Rescue Squadron, in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Air Force Pararescue teams and helicopter aircrews are part of the Air Force's 451st Air Expeditionary Wing based at Kandahar Air Field, which provides a variety of air assets in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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A 50 calibre U.S. Air Force door gunner waits as a patient is loaded onto his helicopter during a rescue mission for a wounded Afghan soldier in the Arghandab Valley, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Thursday, July 29, 2010. Rescue teams one part of the U.S. Air Force's 451st Air Expeditionary Wing in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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Following a helicopter rescue mission, military hospital staff wheel rush an Afghan National Army soldier with a gunshot wound to the back into a hospital, in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Thursday July 29, 2010. U.S Air Force Pararescuers and helicopter aircrews are part of the U.S. Air Force's 451st Air Expeditionary Wing, which provides a variety of air assets in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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In this July 23, 2010, file photo, United States Marines from Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Marines fire machine guns for suppression during a gunbattle as part of an operation to clear the area of insurgents near Musa Qaleh, in northern Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer, File)

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In this July 28, 2010, file photo, U.S. Army Lt. Christopher Babcock looks at the body of a suspected Taliban fighter killed by U.S. soldiers from 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, while local people protest the man was a farmer from Samir Kalacha village in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

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Daughter of Mohammad Asim, a civilian killed in a protest, wails inside an ambulance outside a local hospital in Srinagar, India, Friday, July 30, 2010. Paramilitary soldiers fired on hundreds of demonstrators in Indian Kashmir on Friday, killing two men and wounding at least 12 others, police said as protests against Indian rule spread across the region. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

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Paramedics carry the body of Showket Ahmad on a stretcher inside a local hospital in Srinagar, India, Friday, July 30, 2010. Paramilitary soldiers fired on hundreds of demonstrators in Indian Kashmir on Friday, killing two men and wounding at least 12 others, police said as protests against Indian rule spread across the region. Showket was one of two civilian killed during a protest in Sopore, some 50 Kilometers (31 miles) northwest of Srinagar. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

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Relatives of Iqbal Khan, one of the wounded civilians, wail outside a hospital in Srinagar, India, Friday, July 30, 2010. Massive clashes erupted in Indian Kashmir's main city Friday after two men were wounded as paramilitary soldiers fired on a group of anti-India protesters, police and locals said. Khan was in critical condition in a hospital. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

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Kashmiri women shout freedom slogans as they accompany others carrying the bodies of two civilians outside a local hospital in Srinagar, India, Friday, July 30, 2010. Paramilitary soldiers fired on hundreds of demonstrators in Indian Kashmir on Friday, killing two men and wounding at least 12 others, police said as protests against Indian rule spread across the region. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

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A relative of Iqbal Khan, a wounded civilian, wails outside a hospital in Srinagar, India, Friday, July 30, 2010. Massive clashes erupted in Indian Kashmir's main city Friday after two men were wounded as paramilitary soldiers fired on a group of anti-India protesters, police and locals said. Khan was in critical condition in a hospital. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)