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This Oct. 23, 2009 photo shows an Afghan girl sitting on a cement statute of a lion at the entrance of the Kabul Zoo in Afghanistan.

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  1. A United States Army soldier runs with the ball as United States Marines from the 2nd MEB, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion try to tackle while playing a game of mud football following a rain storm at their base in Khan Neshin, in the volatile Helmand province of southern Afghanistan, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009.
  2. KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - DECEMBER 09: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (C) looks at a weapons display while meeting with members of coalition military at a NATO aviation training facility at Kabul International Airport December 9, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Secretary Gates is on a week-long trip to Afghanistan one week after U.S. President Barack Obama announced that he will send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan.
  3. WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 08: Commander of the International Security Assistance Force and commander of United States Forces Afghanistan U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal (L) and Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry speak before testifying to the Senate Armed Services Committee about the war in Afghanistan December 8, 2009 in Washington, DC. Although they previously disagreed on the way forward in Afghanistan, McCrystal and Eikenberry said they fully agree with President Barack Obama's plans for increasing U.S. forces in the war-torn country.
  4. WOOTTON BASSETT, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 08: John Amer, (L) father of Acting Sergeant John Paxton Amer, 30, of 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, reacts as the hearse carrying his son's coffin passes on December 8, 2009 in Wootton Bassett, England. The repatriation Acting Sergeant John Paxton Amer came on the day the MoD was expected to release the name of a British soldier was shot dead yesterday in Afghanistan, taking the total number killed there this year to 100. The total number of UK troops killed since the start of operations in Afghanistan in October 2001 has now reached 237.

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