1. Abdul Qahar, an interpreter with Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, finds one of the few shaded spots during Operation Big Wave in Khanagawr, Afghanistan, Aug. 18, 2010. During the operation the men spent two days in direct sunlight with temperatures reaching more than 120 degrees. The operation was conducted to disrupt the enemy from using supply lines to bring weapons and fighters into Nawa. (U.S. Marine Corps/Sgt. Mark Fayloga)
2. Cpl Ryan Belgrave with the Canadian Army's 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment Battle Group, walks through a field of marijuana plants during a patrol near the village of Salavat, in the Panjway district west of Kandahar on August 4, 2010. (REUTERS/Bob Strong)
3. A man pours fuel over a pile of illegal narcotics to be burned in Kabul on August 30, 2010. Nearly 9 tons of narcotics, including opium and hashish, were burned, according to the Afghan Anti-Narcotics Ministry. (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood)(REUTERS/Bob Strong)
6. Afghan police carry away a wounded man at the scene of an attack in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Police say a district government leader in eastern Afghanistan had been killed by bomb in his car as he traveled to a meeting to discuss security matters. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
8. An emaciated drug addict rests as another smokes heroin on the dry banks of the Kabul river, located near a military installation, in Kabul on May 15, 2010. Some Eight percent of Afghans suffer from drug addiction, a rate twice the global average and a "major" growing problem for the world's leading narcotic producer. (MAURICIO LIMA/AFP/Getty Images)
9. U.S. Army medic Sgt Bradley Robbins with Charlie Company, 6-101 Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, treats an Afghan boy with gunshot wounds on board a medevac helicopter near the town of Marjah in Helmand Province, August 17, 2010. (REUTERS/Bob Strong)
10. An Afghan man grieves hanging onto the coffin of his brother inside a vehicle in the outskirts of Herat on August 30, 2010. On August 29, police found the bodies of five members of a campaign team for female candidate Fawzya Galani, days after 10 of them were abducted by the Taliban, officials said. (Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images)
14. French President Nicolas Sarkozy comforts one of the sons of Captain Lorenzo Mezzasalma during a ceremony on August 27, 2010 at the 21e RIMA in Frejus to honor Captain Lorenzo Mezzasalma and Corporal Jean-Nicolas Panezyck 21st Marine Infantry Regiment, killed in the line of duty in Afghanistan last August 23. The soldiers were killed last Monday in a gun battle in the Bedraou Valley in the eastern province of Kapisa, Afghanistan. (GERARD JULIEN/AFP/Getty Images)
19. An Afghan policeman smiles during a joint patrol with U.S. policemen from the 504-th Military Police Battalion, 170th Company in the suburbs of Kandahar city, Kandahar province, August 18, 2010. (REUTERS/Oleg Popov)
20. An Afghan girl reads the holy Quran, as a woman, right, offers prayers at a mosque during the month of Ramadan in Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, Aug 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
21. Afghan girls pose for their mother at Qargha lake just outside Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
22. Afghan families, hit by the floods which have devastated Pakistan, work to rid their homes of mud, on August 7, 2010 in the south of Kabul, Afghanistan. More than 500 families have been forced to evacuate their homes due to flooding, which has originated from the country's border with Pakistan. (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)
23. Afghan National Army recruits take part in a training exercise on August 8, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)
24. People gather around body parts from the corpse of a suicide bomber after he detonated himself at the entrance to a guesthouse on August 10, 2010 in Kabul. According to reports two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the guesthouse, killing two drivers and injuring a security guard. (Photo bt Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)
25. An Afghan barber watches near the site where suicide bombers attacked the entrance to a guesthouse in Kabul on August 10, 2010. (SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)
26. Children play in Karte Sakhi neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
33. A U.S. Army medevac crew member attempts to revive a Marine mortally wounded in an IED blast near the town of Marjah in Helmand province on August 22, 2010. (REUTERS/Bob Strong)
34. Hospital personnel attempt to revive a mortally wounded Marine after he was brought in by medevac helicopter at Camp Dwyer near the town of Marjah in Helmand Province on August 22, 2010. (REUTERS/Bob Strong)
40. Avraz Ali carries his son Guhulamabac on a bicycle in Karte Sakhi neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
42. Jill Warren, stepmother of Army Staff Sgt. Kyle Warren, holds a shirt he left in his room in Long Beach, California on August 3rd, 2010. The 28-year-old was patrolling an area of Tsagay, Afghanistan on July 29, 2010 when his military vehicle hit an explosive device. He died in the blast. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)