Afghanistan

Afghan villagers surround the dead bodies of two children who allegedly were killed during a raid by foreign and Afghan forces conducted by U.S. troops in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. The raid killed a man named Nurullah and two of his children and wounded his wife, a police officer said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

Afghanistan Snow

An Afghan nomad, Noorullah, left, holds his sick grandson Zaman, after heavy snowfalls in the Zandajan district of Herat province, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2008. Eight members of a family were killed after their muddy house collapsed by heavy snowfalls said, Noor-u-ddin Ahmadi, head of the Afghan Red Crescent Society in Herat, province of Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Fraidoon Pooyaa)

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An Afghan worker unloads bricks from a kiln in a brick factory in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 26, 2008. In western Kabul there are about 50 factories where brick makers fire handmade bricks used for the reconstruction of buildings destroyed during over two decades of war. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Afghanistan Violence

Afghan soldiers walk at Kabul airport for taking flight to be transferred to Arghandab district where is partly controlled by the Taliban militants in Kandarhar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 17, 2008. About 700 Afghan army troops have moved from Kabul to Kandahar to deal with the Arghandab threat. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

Afghanistan Violence

Afghan National Army soldiers patrol on the outskirts of Kandahar city, southern Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 18, 2008. NATO's International Security Assistance Force and the U.S.-led coalition offered a strikingly different picture of the Arghandab region of Kandahar than that portrayed by Afghan officials. The U.S.-led coalition said in a statement that it had sent a patrol through Arghandab that met no resistance. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

Afghanistan Violence

Britain soldiers with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stands at the gate of their temporary base in the city of Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday June 19, 2008. Afghan and NATO troops backed by warplanes drove Taliban militants from villages within striking distance of southern Afghanistan's main city on Thursday, killing 56 of them, Afghan officials said.(AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

Afghanistan Obama

** ALTERNATE CROP OF KAB118 ** In this photo released by the Afghan Presidential Palace, U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, right, walks along with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Sunday, July 20, 2008. Obama began his first-ever visit to Afghanistan as part of an official congressional delegation that landed in Kabul. Obama also arranged to visit Jordan, Israel, Germany, France and England, traveling aboard a jet chartered by his presidential campaign, before his return to the United States. (AP Photo/Presidential Palace, HO)

Afghanistan Violence

Face covered Taliban militants pose before they execute two Afghan women in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, on Saturday, July 12, 2008. Taliban fighters told Associated Press Television News that the two were executed for allegedly running a prostitution ring catering to U.S. soldiers and other foreign contractors at a U.S. base in Ghazni city. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Naikzad)

Afghanistan Violence

Afghan women walk past coffins containing the bodies of three foreign aid workers in a hospital in Pul-e-Alam in Logar province, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008. Gunmen wielding assault rifles ambushed a U.S. aid organization's vehicle in Logar province, south of Kabul, on Wednesday, killing an American-Trinidadian aid worker along with a Canadian and a British-Canadian colleague, officials said. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Angry Afghanistan

** FILE ** In this Aug. 23, 2008 file photo, an Afghan woman shouts anti-U.S. slogans in front of her destroyed home in Azizabad, the village in Shindand district of Herat province, Afghanistan. Disillusionment is widespread in Afghanistan, feeding an insurgency that has killed 195 foreign soldiers so far this year, 105 of them Americans. Afghans are deeply bitter about American and NATO forces because of errant bombs, heavy-handed searches and seizures and a sense that the foreigners do not understand their culture. (AP Photo/Fraidoon Pooyaa, File)

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ASHLEY FRANSCELL/Daily Herald The embassy's deputy chief of mission and political counselor of Afghanistan M. Ashraf Haidari spoke at Utah Valley University on Monday, December 8, 2008 in Orem.

Afghanistan

ASHLEY FRANSCELL/Daily Herald The embassy's deputy chief of mission and political counselor of Afghanistan M. Ashraf Haidari spoke at Utah Valley University on Monday, December 8, 2008 in Orem.

Afghanistan Violence

Two Afghan women, second right, walk on their way home after work as they get on a bus in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, June 18, 2007. Police said they have detained a suspect in connection with Sunday's deadly bus bombing that killed at least 35 people, most of them police trainers. (AP Photo/Farzana Wahidy)

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Bakir, 20, cousin of lawmaker Sayed Mustafa Kazimi cries after having seen his relative's body at a military hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007. Afghan President Hamid Karzai declared three days of mourning for victims of a suicide blast targeting a group of lawmakers and children, as the death toll on Wednesday rose to at least 60, making it the deadliest attack in Afghanistan since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

APTOPIX Afghanistan

An Afghan girl holds a toy she got from the 413th Civil Affairs Battalion at Bermel in Paktika, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 26, 2007. U.S. soldiers from the 413th Civil Affairs Battalion delivered aid including blankets, shoes and radio to villagers. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Afghanistan Violence

Afghan police ride in the back of a police vehicle in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, June 24, 2007. A roadside bomb hit a convoy of British troops Sunday, wounding one soldier and prompting them to open fire in a civilian area in insurgency-plagued Helmand province, killing one man, police said. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaleq)

Afghanistan Violence

** FILE ** Afghan President Hamid Karzai stresses a point during a press conference with Italian Premier Romano Prodi (not seen) at Rome's Chigi Palace, premier's office, in this Friday, Feb. 16, 2007 file photo. Taliban militants fired up to six rockets near a gathering where President Hamid Karzai was giving a speech in central Afghanistan on Sunday, June 10, 2007, but no one was hurt, officials said. The attack happened as clashes and airstrikes in the country's south and northwest left 47 suspected militants and two police dead. Karzai was giving a speech to the elders and residents of Andar district in Ghazni province when rockets were fired nearby, said Ali Shah Ahmadzai, provincial police chief. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

APTOPIX AFGHANISTAN PRINCE HARRY

In this image made available in London, Thursday Feb. 28, 2008, Britain's Prince Harry patrols through the deserted town of Garmisir, Afghanistan, close to Forward Operating Base Delhi, on Wednesday Jan. 2, 2008. Prince Harry has been serving on the front line in Afghanistan with the British Army, according to an announcement by Britain's Ministry of Defence. The Prince, who is third in line to the throne, and is still deployed in the country, has been in Afghanistan since December. The deployment was not reported due to an agreement between the Ministry of Defense and news organizations, including The Associated Press. The story was leaked by an Australian magazine and a German newspaper. (AP Photo/John Stillwell, pool)

AFGHANISTAN PRINCE HARRY

In this image made available in London, Thursday Feb. 28, 2008, Britain's Prince Harry, atop a military vehicle in the Helmand province, Southern Afghanistan Monday February 18, 2008. Prince Harry has been serving on the front line in Afghanistan with the British Army, according to an announcement by Britain's Ministry of Defence. The Prince, who is third in line to the throne, and is still deployed in the country, has been in Afghanistan since December. The deployment was not reported due to an agreement between the Ministry of Defense and news organizations, including The Associated Press. The story was leaked by an Australian magazine and a German newspaper. (AP Photo/John Stillwell, pool)

AFGHANISTAN BRITAIN HARRY

In this photo made available Sunday March 2, 2008, Britain's Prince Harry, right, on patrol through the deserted town of Garmisir Jan. 2, 2008, close to FOB (forward operating base) Delhi, where he was posted in Helmand province Southern Afghanistan. Prince Harry returned to Britain Saturday March 1, after news reports revealed details about his 10-week active military service in Afghanistan, and it was deemed too dangerous for him and other troops who would become a target if he remained.(AP Photo / John Stillwell, PA) ** UNTIED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVES **

CORRECTION AFGHANISTAN KITE FLIYING

** CORRECTS THE YEAR ** Afghan boys run after a kite during a kite flying competition to mark the Afghan New Year in Kabul, Afghanistan on Friday, March 28, 2008. According to the solar calendar that Afghanistan honors, the year is now 1387. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

Spending one year in Afghanistan

Spending one year in Afghanistan

Spending one year in Afghanistan

Afghanistan Tower Attacks

An Afghan worker of a mobile phone company tower points to the burned side after it was burnt by Taliban militants in the city of Kandahar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on March 19, 2008. About 10 towers have been attacked since then _ seven of them seriously _ causing almost US$2 million in damages, the telecom ministry said. Afghanistan's four major mobile phone companies began cutting service across the south soon after. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)