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An Afghan instructor instructs a police student shooting with live ammunition at the police academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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Afghan National Police line up after the official ceremony to take down the flag at the end of the day at their base in Lashkar Gah, Helmand, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. In eastern Afghanistan a suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle near the gate of a U.S.- Afghan combat outpost Wednesday, wounding at least 10 Afghan soldiers. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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Recruits exercise in formation at the National Police Academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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Recruits exercise at the National Police Academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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Police officers participate in early morning prayers inside a mosque at the police academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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Afghan National Police officers navigate a ropes course during a training session at the police academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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Afghan National Police recruits study their notes on how to use a Kalashnikov rifle during a training session at the police academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. The readiness of Afghanistan's security forces is central to U.S. and NATO plans to withdraw all forces from the country by the end of 2014, and the academy's new commander wants to help turn around a 146,000-strong national police force long riddled with corruption, incompetence and factional rivalries. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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A new recruit of the Afghan National Police force, right, is driven to his new outpost straight from the registration center in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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A police recruit looks up to a picture of Afghan President Hamid Karzai in his sleeping quarters at the National Police Academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. On Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, 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. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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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 officers line up with pots to get their breakfast at the Police Academy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012. NATO defense leaders gathering in Brussels Tuesday are committed to the war in Afghanistan, according to U.S. and alliance officials, but there are growing signs that the Afghan political and military hostilities against the coalition are starting to wear on the coalition. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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Afghan National Police officers line up with their tea glasses before breakfast at the Police Academy in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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Bodies of suicide attack victims are covered in white cloth in the courtyard of a hospital in Maymana, Faryab province, northwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 26, 2012. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a mosque in northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing dozens of people and wounding scores, government and hospital officials said. (AP Photo/Qawtbuddin Khan)

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During a U.S. Army Task Force Shadow helicopter rescue mission, a boy with shrapnel wounds from an IED explosion is rushed to a field hospital, airborne over southern Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. The explosive, which also tore off both an Afghan man's legs, was planted to kill or maim Marines and Afghan soldiers on foot, who responded and applied first aid, and called in the rescue unit from the 101st Airborne's TF Destiny. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)