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    Afghan men carry the bodies of 7 civilians killed, by a roadside bomb in the Alingar district of Laghman province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, June 3, 2013. A statement from the provincial government said a group of four women and two children had gone with a male driver into the hills to collect firewood. On their way back, their vehicle hit the mine and all inside were killed. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)


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    Britain's Prince Harry — or just plain Capt. Wales, as he is known in the British army — talks to a TV crew after making his early-morning preflight checks on the flight line at Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. The British Ministry of Defense announced on Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, that the 28-year-old prince is returning from his 20-week deployment in Afghanistan, where he served as an Apache helicopter pilot with the Army Air Corps. (AP Photo/John Stillwell, Pool)


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    ** FILE ** U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, shakes hands with Paula Broadwell, co-author of "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus," in a July 13, 2011, photo from the ISAF's Flickr website. (Associated Press/International Security Assistance Force)


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    U.S. Marines watch as their Afghan National Army students graduate from a class on using 60mm mortars at Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan. Afghan forces now are taking the lead in operations in 80 percent of central Helmand province. (Kristina Wong/The Washington Times)


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    U.S. Marines watch as their Afghan National Army students graduate from a class on using 60mm mortars at Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan. Afghan forces now are taking the lead in operations in 80 percent of central Helmand province. (Kristina Wong/The Washington Times)


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    U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. David Denseley, center, from Salt Lake City, Utah assists the Afghan National Army mortarmen clean out the bore of a 60mm mortar at a mortar range near Camp Shorabak, Helmand province, Afghanistan on May 4, 2013. (Credit: Staff Sgt. Ezekiel R. Kitandwe/U.S. Marine Corps)


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    U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. David Denseley, center, from Salt Lake City, Utah assists the Afghan National Army mortarmen clean out the bore of a 60mm mortar at a mortar range near Camp Shorabak, Helmand province, Afghanistan on May 4, 2013. (Credit: Staff Sgt. Ezekiel R. Kitandwe/U.S. Marine Corps)


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    Credit: Marines watch proudly as their Afghan National Army students graduate from a class on using 60mm mortars at Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan on May 9th, 2013. Credit: Kristina Wong/The Washington Times


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    An Afghan National Army soldier graduates from a course on 60mm mortar systems, taught by coalition instructors at the Regional Corps Battle School on May 9, 2013 at Camp Shorabak in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. (Credit: Kristina Wong/The Washington Times)


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