A Canadian soldier with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stands watch the provincial council office following suicide attacks in Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, April 1, 2009. Three Taliban suicide bombers disguised in army uniforms stormed a government office in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday after a fourth detonated a car bomb, officials said. At least 17 people, including the four assailants, died.(AP Photo)
An Afghan soldier checks a destroyed house after the joint coalition-Afghan mission late Thursday, in which the 12 militants were killed, in Shikhan village of Baraki Barak district of Logar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Friday, April 3, 2009. Coalition and Afghan forces killed 12 militants and one civilian in a province next to the Afghan capital in a mission that included airstrikes, an Afghan official said Friday, while a member of the NATO-led force was killed in violence in the east. (AP Photo)
Trucks destroyed by Taliban fighters sit by the roadside in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province July 8, 2009. Taliban fighters set 12 trucks, belonging to a construction firm, on fire and took two drivers prisoner, the local governor said. REUTERS/Stringer
An Afghan man stands guard as another examines the wrecker of a car after an explosion near the shrine in the outskirts of Khost, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, March 21, 2009. The bombing killed five people as they celebrated the Persian new year, said the provincial police spokesman. (AP Photo/Nashanuddin Khan)
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