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NATO French Foreign Legion soldiers return to Combat Outpost Rocco following an operation through the Uzbeen valley in the Surobi disctrict, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009.

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  2. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (L) speaks as Latvia's President Valdis Zatlers listens during a news conference in Riga October 8, 2009.
  3. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (L) speaks as Latvia's President Valdis Zatlers listens during a news conference in Riga October 8, 2009.
  4. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (L) and Latvian President Valdis Zatlers give a joint press conference on October 8, 2009 in Riga.
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  6. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (L) listens to Latvian President Valdis Zatlers during a joint press conference on October 8, 2009 in Riga.
  7. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen gives a press conference with Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves (not pictured) on October 8, 2009 in Tallinn during his official visit.
  8. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen gives a press conference with Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves (not pictured) on October 8, 2009 in Tallinn during his official visit.
  9. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen gives a press conference with Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves (not pictured) on October 8, 2009 in Tallinn during his official visit.
  10. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (L) and Latvian President Valdis Zatlers give a joint press conference on October 8, 2009 in Riga.
  11. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (L) signs a guest book after a joint press conference with Latvian President Valdis Zatlers on October 8, 2009 in Riga.
  12. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (L) listens to Latvian President Valdis Zatlers during a joint press conference on October 8, 2009 in Riga.
  13. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (L) shakes hands with Latvian President Valdis Zatlers after a joint press conference on October 8, 2009 in Riga.
  14. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (L) and Latvian President Valdis Zatlers give a joint press conference on October 8, 2009 in Riga.
  15. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (L) and Latvian President Valdis Zatlers (R) arrive to give a joint press conference on October 8, 2009 in Riga.
  16. A Britain soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) tries to cover the lens of the camera, as he leaves the site of a bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. A powerful car bomb exploded in the busy center of Afghanistan's capital early Thursday, destroying vehicles and blowing off the walls of shops, officials said.

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