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Topic: Afghanistan (page 26)

Afghan protestors beat a burning effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama during a demonstration in Jalalabad, Afghanistan on Sunday, April 3, 2011. Afghan protests against the burning of a Quran in Florida entered a third day with a demonstration in the major eastern city Sunday, while the Taliban called on people to rise up, blaming government forces for any violence. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) (AP)

Rahim Faiez, Rahmat Gul

Afghans shout anti- US slogans during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan on Friday, April 1, 2011. Eight foreigners were killed on Friday after demonstrators protesting a reported burning of the Muslim holy book stormed a United Nations (UN) office in northern Afghanistan, opening fire on guards and setting fires inside the compound, a top Afghan police official said. Right banner says 'there is no God but Allah and Mohammad is his messenger' and the center banner says 'long live holy Quran'. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

A U.S. Predator drone flies over the moon above Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010. The Pakistani army said Sunday that it was investigating reports that Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud died from injuries sustained in a U.S. drone missile strike in mid-January. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) (Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Afghans shout anti US slogans as they burning blankets, clothing and other items, which were distributed by coalition troops in Ghazni west of of Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, March. 1, 2011. Residents in Ghazni burned blankets, clothing and other items that they said coalition troops had distributed in the city on Monday. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Naikzad) (AP)

US solider stands guard near the site of explosion in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Monday, March, 7, 2011. An Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman says a roadside bomb in the eastern city of Jalalabad has killed two policemen and wounded another 25 people.(AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) (AP)

Leaked photos show U.S. soldiers pose with corpse

An Afghan woman clad in burqa watches the view of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Insurgents killed more Afghan civilians last year than ever before and their roadside bombs, suicide attacks and assassinations were responsible for the overwhelming majority of conflict-related deaths in 2010, the United Nations said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

President Barack Obama speaks at Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, Va., Monday, March 14, 2011. (AP Photo) (AP)

Growing backlash against Obama on Manning

Glenn Greenwald

Concussed Sgt. Thomas James Brennan of Randolph, Massachusetts from the 1st Battalion 8th Marines Alpha Company rests in a compound providing cover after a rocket propelled grenade exploded near his position during a battle against Taliban insurgents in the town of Nabuk in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, November 1, 2010. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CONFLICT) (Â© Finbarr O'reilly / Reuters)

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, right, talks with Gen. David Petreaus upon his arrival in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday March 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Defense Department/Cherie Cullen) (AP)

Peter Finocchiaro

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, right, talks with Gen. David Petreaus upon his arrival in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday March 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Defense Department/Cherie Cullen) (AP)

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, gestures towards journalists during joint press conference with Croatian counterpart Ivo Josipovic, not in picture, at The Presidential Palace in Kabul , Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb, 19, 2011. Afghanistan's president says any decision on a permanent U.S. military presence in the country must be made by Afghans and take into account the concerns of neighboring countries. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) (AP)

Afghan president rejects U.S. apology for killings

From left, Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen; Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Pentagon Comptroller Robert F. Hale, and others, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011, before the HouseArmed Services Committee hearing on the Defense Department's budget. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D- Mich. the chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee talks during a press conference accompanied by Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010.

General ordered psy-ops to be used on Americans

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, right, speaks with Gen. David Petraeus NATO's top commander in Afghanistan during a press event in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. Vice President Joe Biden was in Afghanistan Monday for a surprise visit aimed at assessing progress in handing over security from foreign to Afghan forces, a key issue that comes against a backdrop of mounting concerns in the U.S. over the gains made in the nearly decade-long war. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2010, file photo, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks in Washington. The jockeying to find a nominee to challenge President Barack Obama is a crowded, unsettled affair, but one thing's clear: It will be more conservative, to tp bottom, than was the Republican Primary four years ago, and several before that. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) (AP)

Hamid Karzai

U.S. sanctions crack down on Afghan corruption

Afghan police men shout at photographers to prevent them approaching the entrance of damaged building of shopping complex after a suicide bomber detonated a cache of explosives inside the building in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb, 14, 2011. An explosion rocked a shopping and hotel complex on Monday, killing at least two people, officials said, in the second attack in less than a month inside the heavily secured Afghan capital. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) (AP)

Afghans at the scene of an explosion in downtown of Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Afghan police say a bomb has exploded in a crowded intersection in downtown Kabul but there were no reports that anyone was killed. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

Karzai chasing NATO out of Afghanistan

Pakistani paramilitary soldiers survey the site of suicide bombing in Khar, the main town of Pakistan's Bajur tribal region, along theAfghan border, Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. A female suicide bomber detonated her explosives-laden vest killing scores of people at an aid distribution center in northwestern Pakistan while army helicopter gunships and artillery killed a similar number of Islamic militants in neighboring tribal regions near the Afghan border, officials said. (AP Photo/Anwarullah Khan) (AP)

Maj. Gen. Arnold Fields (Ret.)

These aerial photos show the Afghan village of Tarok Kalache before and after American troops dropped nearly 25 tons worth of bombs and rockets on the area.

What 25 tons of bombs will do to an Afghan village

Adam Clark Estes

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