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CORRECTION AFGHANISTAN MOUNTAIN THRUST

US soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment wait after being dropped off by a Chinook helicopter outside the village of Musa Qala, Helmand Province, south Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 13, 2006. More US soldiers are moving into the region in support of military operation Mountain Thrust, in southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

AFGHANISTAN US ARMEE OPERATION ALAMO

An Afghan man and his son watch as soldiers from the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division prepare to sweep their home Thursday, Nov. 7, 2002 in southeastern Afghanistan. Soldiers discovered over a dozen mines and grenades, 14 rocket propelled grenades, and plastic explosives as they searched several compounds as part of Operation Alamo Sweep. (AP Photo/Scott Nelson, Pool)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT SCHULE EINWEIHUNG

JAHRESRUECKBLICK 2007 - AUSLAND - AFGHANISTAN EINWEIHUNG EINER SCHULE: Afghans prepare lunch as an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldier stands guard during the inauguration of a primary school, near an ISAF forward operating base, in Sparwan Ghar, some 38 kilometers (23.75 miles) west of Kandahar, Afghanistan, Saturday, January 20, 2007. The school was constructed by a Canadian reconstruction team of the International Security Assistance Forces. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

PAKISTAN KONFLIKT GRENZE

JAHRESRUECKBLICK 2007 - AUSLAND - PAKISTAN KONFLIKT ANSCHLAG: Pakistani volunteers remove an injured man from the site of suicide bombing in Mingora, the main town of Swat mountainous area of Pakistans North West Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan, Thursday, October 25, 2007. A suicide bomber attacked a truck carrying troops in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 19 people and wounding 29, some seriously, police said. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Mohammad Iqbal)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

U.S. soldiers of 101st Airborne Division along with Afghan policemen head towards a house during a raid to search for Taliban in Mandozai, in Khost province, Afghanistan, Sunday, April 20, 2008. U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan now top 32,000, the highest number of American forces in the country since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion that toppled the Taliban. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT KABUL ANSCHLAG

JAHRESRUECKBLICK 2007 - AUSLAND - AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT ANSCHLAG: Soldiers and investigators look at the carnage left behind after a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, August 25, 2007. A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy carrying foreigners near the Afghan capital Saturday, wounding two foreigners and four Afghans, officials said. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

British troops from 13th Air Assault Regiment and a U.S. Marine from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, forth from right, watch as palettes of water bottles drift to the ground on parachutes as NATO planes make a resupply airdrop to a forward operating base in southern Afghanistan Saturday, April 26, 2008. Some 3,500 U.S. Marines arrived in Afghanistan to help NATO's increasingly bloody fight against the Taliban. (KEYSTONE/AP/David Guttenfelder)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

A U.S. Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit lies on a stretcher behind his vehicle as he tries to take shelter from a sand storm at forward operating base Dwyer in the Helmand province of southern Afghanistan Wednesday, May 7, 2008. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

U.S. Marines have a breakfast as they watch a TV showing U.S. Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama speak, at U.S. military base in Fortress, near Pakistani border in Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

Soldiers from the U.S. Army First Battalion, 26th Infantry take defensive positions at firebase Restrepo after receiving fire from Taliban positions in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar Province on Monday May 11, 2009. Spc. Zachery Boyd of Fort Worth, TX, far left was wearing 'I love NY' boxer shorts after rushing from his sleeping quarters to join his fellow platoon members. From far right is Spc. Cecil Montgomery of Many, LA and Jordan Custer of Spokan, WA, center. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says American soldiers have more than their military might and training on their side in the war in Afghanistan. Some have pink underwear. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

Soldiers from the U.S. Army First Battalion, 26th Infantry fire mortars from the Korengal Outpost at Taliban positions in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar Province on Tuesday May 12, 2009. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

A U.S. Marine from the 2nd MEB, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, checks behind a compound wall during a patrol near the town of Golestan in Afghanistan's Farah province Friday, June 12, 2009. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

U.S Marine Daniel Hinther of Helana, Mont. and from the 2nd MEB, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines throws a hand grenade during close quarter battles with Taliban fighters inside a mud walled compound near Now Zad in Afghanistan's Helmand province Saturday June 20, 2009. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

U.S Marines from the 2nd MEB, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines battle Taliban fighters inside a mud walled compound near Now Zad in Afghanistan's Helmand province Saturday June 20, 2009. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT OPFER

The helmets, weapons, dogtags and boots of two fallen U.S. Marines stand at the end of a ceremony in their honor at Camp Bastion, in southern Afghanistan Tuesday, April 22, 2008. 1st Sgt. Luke Mercardante, 35, of Athens, Ga, and Cpl. Kyle W. Wilks, 24, of Rogers, Ark. died on April 15 when their vehicle, the fourth of 36 vehicles in their convoy, struck a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan. Both men were assigned to the Combat Logistics Batallion, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

In this photo taken Friday, June 19, 2009, U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines descend from an observation post near Now Zad in Afghanistan's Helmand province. Three years after its residents fled, the once bustling town of Now Zad is the scene of a stalemate between U.S. Marines and Taliban insurgents and an example of the challenges facing the U.S. administration even as it sends 21,000 extra Marines and soldiers to the south to try and turn around a bogged down, 8-year-long war. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

Private First Class Schonert from the 2rd platoon Apache Company 2-87 Infantry, 10th Mountain Division from Fort Drum, NY unloads 50 cal. rounds from a MRAP vehicle after an IED attack on 2nd platoon Apache Company in Wardak province, Monday, Aug. 3, 2009, in Afghanistan. Thousands of U.S. troops are deploying in southern Afghanistan as part of an effort to prevent the Taliban from disrupting the country's Aug. 20 presidential election. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 1st Battalion 5th Marines sleep in their fighting holes inside a compound where they stayed for the night, in the Nawa district of Afghanistan's Helmand province, Wednesday July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

In this Wednesday Aug. 19, 2009 photo, made available Saturday Aug. 22, Spc. Paul Pickett, 22, of Minden La., center, of the U.S. Army's Apache Company, 2nd Battalion 87th Infantry Regiment, part of the 3rd Combat Brigade 10th Mountain Division based out of Fort Drum, N.Y., covers a injured U.S. soldier as a helicopter lands to evacuate the wounded after their armored vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in the Tangi Valley of Afghanistan's Wardak Province. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

AFGHANISTAN DOWNWARD SPIRAL

**ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, OCT. 12** FILE - In this May 2, 2008 file photo, U.S. Marines, from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, return fire on Taliban positions near the town of Garmser in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

A U.S. Army vehicle fires on Taliban positions on a mountain side, outside a base held by the Army's 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division in the Pech River Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

U.S soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division return fire after their patrol in the Pech Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province was ambushed by Taliban fighters Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

U.S. Army soldiers from the South Carolina National Guard and the Alpha troop 3-71 Cavalry Squadron patrol near the town of Baraki Barak, Logar province, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

An Afghan family rides past a United States Marine from the 2nd MEB, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion during a patrol near Khan Nashin in the volatile province of Helmand, southern Afghanistan, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

epa01956651 A handout picture released on 06 December 2009 by the NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) shows U.S. Army Spc. Steven Alexander, Alpha Company, 422nd Civil Affairs Task Force Lobo talking with an Afghan elderly man during a dismounted patrol, Shabila Kalan, Zabul province, Afghanistan, on 30 November 2009. US President Barack Obama announced on 01 December, that he is deploying 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to step up the fight against Taliban insurgents and forge conditions needed to transfer security responsibility to the Afghan government. EPA/ISAF / HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

In this photo taken Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009, Afghan men drink tea with Cpl. William Lins, left, and Major Mark Vanderbeek, right,and an unidentified Afghan translator from the United States Marine 2nd MEB, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion during a visit to their farm in Khan Neshin in the volatile province of Helmand, southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

United States Marine SSgt. Mark Doucette from the 2nd MEB, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion stands next to an Afghan man as troops search a compound during an operation near Khan Neshin in the volatile Helmand province of southern Afghanistan, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

U.S. Marine Sgt. Terry L. Hall from Palm Bay, Fla., of the 7-5 "Sheepdogs" embedded training team, teaches the correct shooting positions to Afghan National Arny soldiers at Forward Operations Base Blessing on the Pech Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

U.S. Marine Sgt. Terry L. Hall from Palm Bay, Fla., of the 7-5 "Sheepdogs" embedded training team, teaches the correct shooting positions to an Afghan National Army soldier at Forward Operations Base Blessing on the Pech Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

United States Marine Combat Engineer PFC. Bryan Huffman, of Ohio from the 2nd Battalion 2nd Marines "Warlords" uses a metal detector to search for explosives during an operation in the Garmsir district of the volatile Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

An Afghan woman sits in the courtyard of her house as United States Marines from the 2nd Battalion 2nd Marines "Warlords" rest while searching during an operation in the Garmsir district of the volatile Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

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)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

U.S. Marines patrol outside Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Thursday Feb. 11, 2010. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment react as an improvised explosive device is found and detonated by Marine engineers as they try to enter the city of Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment take cover in an open poppy field during a firefight as Taliban fighters fire on them in the town of Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Monday Feb. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Burton Shields, commander of the 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry of Task Force Stryker, center, gestures as he talks through his interpreter, left, and Afghan Army Maj. Abdul-Jalal Jala during a meeting, or shura, with village leaders in the Badula Qulp area, West of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010. (KEYSTONE/AP/Pier Paolo Cito)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

A U.S. Marines with NATO forces, left, sleeps outside a makeshift base in Marjah, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010 (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

U.S. Marine Pfc. Elias Prado of Brentwood , NY and from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment takes cover from the dust of a helicopter taking off a from a forward operating campsite in Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Thursday Feb. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

A United States Army soldier walks through a wheat field while patrolling with A Troop, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment of the 5th Stryker Brigade, Tuesday, April 27, 2010 in the Maiwand District of Kandahar Province.(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN USA

United States Army Sgt. Sean Henry, of Belleview, Wash., watches civilians moving in the distance with his rifle scope while on patrol with 1st Platoon, Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment of the 5th Stryker Brigade Thursday, May 6, 2010, in Afghanistan's Kandahar province. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN KANADA

An Afghan girl greets a Canadian soldier with the 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment, patroling Salavat, Panjwayi district, southwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan, Monday, May 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN

U.S. Army soldiers from the Second Platoon "Raiders", 1-328th Bravo Battery, of the 101st Airborne Division, pose for pictures before going on a foot patrol at Combat Outpost Terra Nova in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN USA

A U.S. soldier watches an Afghan movie on TV while relaxing at Combat Outpost Nolen, an outlying base for the 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Wednesday, July 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN USA

U.S. Army troops from the 1st Battalion 320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, duck as an Afghan soldier fires a rocket propelled grenade towards insurgent positions at Combat Outpost Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Thursday, July 22, 2010. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN USA

U.S. Army soldiers of the 1st Battalion 320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, relax after a morning exercise session at Combat Outpost Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Thursday, July 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN USA

A bomb disposal robot brings a carton for inspection by U.S. Army bomb disposal expert Staff Sergeant Craig Cohen, of Gracey, Kentucky, during clearance operations by the 723rd Explosives Ordinance Disposal unit near COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday, July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN USA

A U.S. Army soldier frisks an Afghan villager during a patrol by the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division near COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday, July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN USA

US Army soldier Specialist Alex Force, of Dallas, Texas, from 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, cleans bullets at COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Sunday, July 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN USA

U.S. Army Pfc. Eli Price, of Modesto California, from the 101st Airborne Division sleeps at COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Monday, July 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN USA

US soldiers from the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, patrol near COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Monday, July 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN USA

US soldiers from the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, patrol near COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Monday, July 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN USA

A US Marine on his way to pick up food supplies after they were dropped off by small parachutes from a plane outside Forward Operating Base Edi in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, Thursday, June 9, 2011. The smoke in the background comes from burning parachutes the Marines destroy after they reached the ground. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN KANADA

In this photo taken Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010, a Canadian soldier with the 1st RCR Battle Group, The Royal Canadian Regiment, chases a chicken seconds before he and his unit were attacked by grenades shot over the wall during a patrol in Salavat, southwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

AFGHANISTAN KONFLIKT TRUPPEN USA

Lance Cpl. Blas Trevino, center, of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, shouts out as he is rescued onto a medevac helicopter from the U.S. Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment after he got shot in the stomach outside Sangin, in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, Saturday, June 11, 2011. The Army's 'Dust Off' crew needed two attempts to get him out, as they were fired upon and took five rounds of bullets into the tail of their aircraft. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)