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U.S. bombs fall close to fighters battling against the Al-Qaeda stronghold at Tora Bora December 8, 2001. (Carl Juste / Miami Herald / MCT)
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Osama bin Laden is seen in this screen grab from Al-Jazeera's satellite channel a day before the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks. (Balkis Press/Abaca Press/MCT)
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Afghan fighters, stand on a ridge that two day's ago was the territory of the Taliban as a B-52 circles above near Tora Bora, Afghanistan, December 12, 2001. (Peter Andrew Bosch/Miami Herald)
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An Afghan man flashes a victory sign as a truck load of Afghan anti-Taliban fighters roll through Kandahar, Afghanistan, Sunday, December 30, 2001. (Tom Pennington / Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
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As evening falls over the White mountain range on the last day of Ramadan, two jet fighters fly over and drop their loads on a day of heavy bombing of al Qaida fighters in Tora Bora, Afghanistan, Saturday, December 15, 2001. (Peter Andrew Bosch / Miami Herald)
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Afghan soldiers sit on a russian tank working its way down from the Tora Bora Mountain range after the end of fighting with al Qaida, December 18, 2001. (Peter Andrew Bosch / Miami Herald / MCT)
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Naqeed Ullah, 12, stands alone as he watches the food distribution take place at the Islamic Relief offices in Kandahar December 28, 2001. Ullah lives, with his four sisters and grandmother, in an abandoned office building after his parents and brother were killed during US bombing attacks. Naqeed Ullah and his sisters were not on the approved list of people that were to receive food during the distribution. (Tom Pennington / Fort Worth Star-Telegram / MCT)
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Former Taliban Commander Zai al Haq shows where al Qaida forces stock piled ammunition in a series of caves outside Kandahar, Afghanistan, December 21, 2001. (Tom Pennington / Fort Worth Star-Telegram / MCT)
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Former Taliban Commander Zai al Haq shows where al Qaida forces stock piled ammunition in a series of caves outside Kandahar, Afghanistan, December 21, 2001. (Tom Pennington / Fort Worth Star-Telegram / MCT)
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Hamid Karzai, right, Afghanistan's interim ruler, holds talks with tribal elders, December 11, 2001, at the compound of al Qaida Leader Mulla Omar in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Tom Pennington / Fort Worth Star-Telegram / MCT)
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Mujahedeen fighters pause in fighting against the Al-Qaeda stronghold at Tora Bora, December 8, 2001, as U.S. bombs fall nearby. (Carl Juste / Miami Herald / MCT)
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Afghan refugee women rest while their Burqas blow in the wind near the Northern Alliance controlled village of Nowabad, Afghanistan after fleeing Kabul, about 25 miles away. (David Gilkey / Detroit Free Press / MCT)
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Afghan prisoner Abdul looks out from behind the bars at the Kandahar prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan, December 13, 2001. Abdul would not say why he was in prison. (Tom Pennington / Fort Worth Star-Telegram / MCT)
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A young Afghan girl asks for food near FOB Hassanabad as the "Pipehitters" start the day's patrol. (Chuck Liddy/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT)
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LCpl Christopher Dutson, of Richland, Washington, kneels in waste-high grass as he keeps watch over a squad of Marines on patrol outside the wire at FOB Hassanabad, Afghanistan. (Chuck Liddy/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT)
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Members of the 26th Marine Expeditionary unit stand guard at the entrance of the newly constructed battlefield detainee facility at the Kandahar International Airport December 18, 2001 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Tom Pennington / Fort Worth Star-Telegram / MCT)
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Ali Mohammad cries for his father December 16, 2001 at the Mirwais Hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Ali lost his left hand and injured his right leg after he and his brother and sister were playing with an unknown type of unexploded ordinance that they had found near their home. (Tom Pennington / Fort Worth Star-Telegram / MCT)
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Friends and family members fill the grave after burying Abdul Shaqor, December 25, 2001 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Abdul was killed when a 20 mm anti-aircraft round of ammunition blew up in his face. (Fort Worth Star-Telegram / MCT)
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An Afghan woman visits the graves of 24 Arab fighters in Kandahar, Afghanistan December 28, 2001. Afghan people leave offerings, that include water, candy, grains, and flags at the graves in Kandahar. (Tom Pennington / Fort Worth Star-Telegram / MCT)
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U.S. Soldiers patrol through a suburb in Kandahar city during Afghanistan's parliamentary elections. (David Belluz/MCT)
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Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit march across the tarmac with their full battle gear January 22, 2002, in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The Marines are headed to an air base in Pakistan and the 101st Airborne has taken control of the Kandahar airport. (Tom Pennington / Fort Worth Star-Telegram / MCT)
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Marine pallbearers carry the casket of Marine Sgt. William Cahir during his burial service on Monday, August 31, 2009, at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia. Cahir spent his life as a public servant: as a congressional staffer, a journalist, a candidate and, finally, on patrol as a Marine reservist in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was shot this month while on patrol in Helmand Province. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT)
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Several Afghan men look at the body of an al Qaida fighter that killed himself with a grenade January 8, 2002 at the Mirwais Hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Tom Pennington / Fort Worth Star-Telegram / MCT)
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Sgt. Ralph Scott, of Rochester, New York, from the 4th Brigade of the 10th Mountain Division, based in Fort Polk, Louisiana, uses a metal detector to probe for hidden IED's (improvised explosive devices) near Malek Din in Ghazni province of Afghanistan in eaerly September 2006. American forces in southeastern Afghanistan have begun doing what many experts said the U.S. should have been doing three years ago: nation-building. Instead of focusing solely on fighting the Taliban and tracking down Osama bin Laden, they're trying to restore the local government and police and rebuild schools, roads and other essential projects. They face a host of challenges, from insurgent ambushes and assassinations of local officials to private militias run by warlords who are unwilling to give up power. (Tom Pennington/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/MCT)
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Children along with burka clad Afghani widowed women wait outside a Canadian FOB (Forward Operating Base) about 25 miles west of Kandahar city in Afghanistan Sunday, November 22, 2009 for a food giveaway. The food distribution was overseen by the Canadian Army PRT team (Provincial Reconstruction team) but the ANP were in charge of the distribution process. The fifty pound bags included two kilos of rice and sugar, two prayer rugs, a prayer scarf, tea and raisins. One hundred and fifty bags were distributed. (Chuck Liddy/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT)
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Private First Class Abraham Figueroa, 19, of Chicago, Illinois, prepares to ford a stream while on patrol in the Arghandab valley in Kandahar province on Tuesday, August 3, 2010. Figueroa's Charlie Company, with the 82nd Airborne Division's 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Fourth Brigade Combat Team, Second Battalion endured high casualties during its year-long tour in Afghanistan. (Dion Nissenbaum/MCT)
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