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Afghan police remove the body of a Taliban militant, who was killed during a clash with Afghan police in Laghman east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. A group of Taliban militants attacked a police check post stationed on the Laghman to Nangarhar highway on Sunday night, and one of the militants was killed in the attack, Afghan officials said.(AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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An Afghan soldier chops wood at Badel Combat Outpost in Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan, near the border with Pakistan, on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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Men look at a tanker carrying supplies for NATO which was destroyed in an apparent bomb attack, en route to neighboring Afghanistan, at the Pakistani border town of Chaman Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Shah Khalid)

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Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, despite hands-on leadership in Afghanistan, lost his job in June after unflattering remarks about administration officials appeared in Rolling Stone magazine. (Associated Press)

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Illustration: Afghanistan by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

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Afghan men mourn the victim of a roadside bomb blast in Lashkar Gah in the Helmand province of southern Afghanistan on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. The bomb blew up next to a minibus at a crowded intersection on a major highway, killing at least 14 civilians, officials said. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq)

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Spc. Wilson Christopher from Kansas City, Kan., of 2nd Platoon Bravo Company 2-327 Infantry returns fire during a sudden attack by Taliban on Badel Combat Out Post in eastern Afghanistan near Pakistani border Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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Soldiers of the U.S. 2nd Platoon, Bravo Company 2-327 check their weapons on the top of an armored vehicle at a fortress combat outpost in Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistani border on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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U.S soldiers of the 2nd Platoon, Bravo Company, 2-327 Infantry take cover after the Taliban attacked them during a patrol in the Chowkay district near the Pakistani border in Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, Dec 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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An Afghan policeman inspects a police vehicle damaged by a car-bomb explosion in Kandahar, Afghanistan, south of Kabul, on Monday, Dec. 27, 2010. The bombing killed three people, an Afghan policeman at the scene said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

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Gen. David H. Petraeus (left), top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, greets U.S. Marines during a visit to Marjah, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. Gen. Petraeus crisscrossed Afghanistan on Saturday to visit coalition troops on Christmas at some of the main battle fronts in a show of appreciation and support in the 10th year of the war against the Taliban. (AP Photo/Elena Becatoros)

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Afghan policemen stand near a damaged car after a blast in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010. NATO said a service member was killed in the blast, while three boys -- ages 10, 11 and 12 -- died in an explosion on the city's outskirts, according to Khan Mohammad Mujhid, the police chief in Kandahar province. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

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Adm. Mike Mullen of the U.S., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during a press conference with U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, not in photo, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Dec. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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Afghan policemen carry away a wounded colleague during a gunbattle in Kunduz, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010. Teams of Taliban militants assaulted the Afghan army in the north of the country and in the capital, killing at least 13 members of the security forces, officials said. (AP Photo/Fulad Hamdard)

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen, right, with U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry during a press conference, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Dec. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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Associated Press President Obama discusses the Afghanistan-Pakistan annual review Thursday as (from left) Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Marine Gen. James Cartwright look on.

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** FILE ** President Obama (center), accompanied by (from left) Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Marine Gen. James Cartwright, speaks about the Afghanistan-Pakistan annual review on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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An Afghan soldier stands guard near a burnt out tanker which was carrying NATO fuel in the Behsud district of Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. Officials said they believed a bomb had gone off inside or near the truck, sparking the fire. No one was injured. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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Associated Press Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates addresses U.S. troops while visiting Forward Operating Base Howz-E-Madad in Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Dec. 8.

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Afghan soldiers stand near a damaged military check post after a suicide attack in Kunduz, north of Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Fulad Hamdard)