Shafiqa, 14, waits for treatment at a free specialized clinic for leishmaniasis supported by World Health Organization (WHO) October 26, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by a parasite transmitted by a tiny sandfly that can lead to severe scarring, often on the face. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images).
A Muslim man prays as German Bundeswehr soldiers patrol high ground overlooking the city on October 9, 2010 in Feyzabad, Afghanistan. (Miguel Villagran/Getty Images). .
Afghan firemen hose down a burning oil tanker after an explosive device planted underneath it exploded, on the Jalalabad-Torkham highway, east of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, October 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
A KC-135R Stratotanker with the 92nd Air Refueling Wing passes over snow-capped mountain ranges in Afghanistan on Oct. 16, 2010. The Fairchild-based KC-135R Stratotanker and crew, one of about a dozen of the 92nd Air Refueling Wing's tankers currently deployed in Kyrgyzstan, refueled six fighter jets Saturday during the six-hour combat sortie. (AP Photo/The Spokesman-Review, Colin Mulvany)
The boot of an Air Force pararescueman from the 46th Expeditionary Rescue Squadrons hangs down from the open door of a HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter as he flies to evacuate wounded from the battlefield in Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Friday Oct. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
Afghan children stand together near the town of Kunjak in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province October 24, 2010. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly)
An Afghan girl listens to the teacher during class at the Naswani school October 12, 2010 in Eraq village, Afghanistan. In the peaceful province of Bamiyan girls are able to attend school without any fears, unlike many in the violent Taliban controlled areas. (Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)
Afghan policemen simulate weapons orientation during a training session with US soldiers from 2nd PLT Diablos 552nd Military Police Company, on the outskirts of Kandahar City, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Motorists pass a replica of the Eiffel Tower, on a dusty afternoon, Oct. 21, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic).
The goal keeper of the Afghan women's national football team looks on before the start of a friendly match against the ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) female football team at the ISAF headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. The Afghan team scored the only goal of the match during the first half and held their nerve to win the match 1-0. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
U.S. Navy corpsman in the Batallion Aid Station (BAS) at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Zeebrugge treat a 13-year-old Afghan boy on October 21, 2010 in Kajaki, Afghanistan. The boy was brought to the clinic in the morning by the Afghan National Police (ANP) after he had the lower part of his jaw blown off in a blast the previous evening. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
The bloodied clothing of an Afghan man, wounded from an IED, is seen on the ground after he received first aid in the Siah Choi area of Zari district of Kandahar province, south of Afghanistan on October 23, 2010. (MASSOUD HOSSAINI/AFP/Getty Images) . .
An Afghan Kuchi girl covers her face as she attends a class in a tent in front of the ruins of the Darlaman Palace which was destroyed during the civil war, on the outskirts of Kabul on October 27, 2010. More than 300 Afghan Kuchi tribal nomads settled into the palace several months ago under the protection of Afghan paramilitary police who use the ruins as a makeshift patrol base, after being driven from a nearby area in Kabul during a bout of ethnic riots earlier this summer. (SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images).
Soldiers walk around a postcard stand in a shop at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan on Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd).
Children play soccer near the construction of the future Parliament building in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd).
Family members weep during a deployment ceremony for the 10th Mountain Division before the unit's departure for Afghanistan at Fort Drum, New York on October 26, 2010. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson). .
A leishmaniasis patient gets a painful injection of Sodium Stibogluconate at a free specialized clinic for leishmaniasis supported by World Health Organization (WHO) October 25, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Leishmaniasis plagues Afghanistan's poor, who often sleep on the floor, and the disease isn't a priority for the government and its aid donors who are grappling with infant mortality, tuberculosis, malaria and trauma. The most common form of the disease is not fatal, but causes untold misery and scarring on faces, stigmatizing children who are excluded at school and making it hard for girls to find husbands. According to WHO, there were an estimated 65,000 reported cases in 2009
Children play around a bonfire in Kart-e-Sakhi cemetery in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd).
Afghan laborers work at a brick-making kiln on October 13, 2010 in the countryside outside Herat in western Afghanistan. Laborers earn very little in a ten hour day at the kiln. The majority of brick-makers are internal refugees displaced from their provinces after insurgencies. Child labor is common in brick-making facilities where parents use their children to assist with easier jobs
Afghan bride Zahara, 24, is held by the groom, Gulam Ali as they leave for the wedding ceremony in a taxi October 14, 2010 in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. At local beauty salons, behind drawn curtains, isolated from the males, Afghan women spend hours getting ready for engagement parties and weddings. In accordance with Afghan culture the men are required to be segregated from the women with the exception of the bride and groom. (Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)
A "Dustoff" medevac helicopter, part of Task Force Shadow from the 101st Airborne Division, evacuates wounded U.S. Army soldier PFC Zachary Bosserdet of 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry in Kandahar province, Afghanistan September 28, 2010. Bosserdet was evacuated after a roadside bomb struck his unit while on patrol. (REUTERS/Erik de Castro)
A cat takes a spot in the bunk of a soldier of the US Army's 101st Airborne Division in a mud-walled compound converted into a small combat outpost October 13, 2010 in Zhari district west of Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images). .
An Afghan refugee laughs in the Maslakh refugee camp on October 15, 2010 on the outskirts of Herat, Afghanistan. (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images). .
An Afghan boy flies a kite among other kites and a camera equipped balloon (top) used by the U.S. military at a hilltop in Kabul October 15, 2010. (REUTERS/Erik de Castro).
A wooden cross stands as a memorial to a British serviceman who lost his life fighting on the peaks above Forward Operating Base (FOB) Zeebrugge on October 23, 2010 in Kajaki, Afghanistan. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images). .
Family and friends carry the coffin of British aid worker Linda Norgove in Uig on the Isle of Lewis on October 26, 2010 in Lewis, Scotland. Miss Norgrove, who was 36, had been kidnapped in Afghanistan while working for US aid group DAI; she was fatally wounded during a rescue attempt by US forces. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images).
A US Army soldier from Scout Platoon 502 Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division searches an associate of a suspected Taliban IED placer, seen in a wheelbarrow, who was killed in a coalition missile strike in Zhari district, Kandahar province on Oct. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd).
A boy hides behind the back of a small store on October 2, 2010 in Feyzabad, Afghanistan. (Miguel Villagran/Getty Images). .
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