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A CH-53 helicopter releases flares after being shot at from the ground while flying over Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, on September 18, 2009. (DAVID FURST/AFP/Getty Images)
One of the six lakes that make up Band-E-Amir National Park is seen September 6, 2009 in Band-E-Amir, Afghanistan (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
A US Special Forces soldier observes as an Afghan National Police officer aims his assault-rifle during training in the village of Nili, Afghanistan on Sept. 18, 2009.
A damaged armored vehicle from the U.S. Army's Alpha Company, 3rd brigade of 10th Mountain Division based in Fort Drum, New York. The damage came from an IED laid by the Taliban along the road near the village of Eber in Logar province September 26, 2009. No one was injured in the incident. (REUTERS/Nikola Solic)
An Afghan man watches heavy traffic near a marketplace, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Afghan policemen (background) help a wounded man at the site of a suicide bomb attack at the main gate of a NATO military airport in Kabul on September 8, 2009. A suicide bomber exploded a car outside Kabul's military airport September 8, killing two Afghan civilians and wounding 10 people including four foreign soldiers, officials said. (Pajhwok Photo Service/AFP/Getty Images)
Supporters of opposition candidate Abdullah Abdullah listen to a speech in a tent during a gathering held in his support in Kabul September 27, 2009. (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood)
An Afghan deminer uses a metal detector to search for ordinance on top the archaelogical site of Shahr-i-Gholghola September 2 , 2009 in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. Afghan Technical Concultants (ATC) and the UN Mine Action center are working together to clear the ancient preserved ruins in the Bamiyan area, the project started on May 5th and will finish on October 15. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
Maj. Gen. William Freeman hands a flag to Shelby Summers, daughter of Army Sgt. 1st Class Severin West Summers III, of Bentonia, Mississippi, at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, Aug. 31, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. Summers was killed in Afghanistan on Aug. 2, 2009. From left, Freeman, Tammy Summers, wife of Severin West Summers III, and Shelby Summers. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
This Sept. 8, 2009 photo shows a soldier with the 6th Kandak Commandos of the Afghan National Army firing a machine gun during night training at their training base close to Rish Khoor village near Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Running past wreckage and body parts, Afghan policemen secure the scene of a blast in Kabul September 17, 2009. A suicide bomber hit a NATO military vehicle on a road between the U.S. embassy and the main airport in the centre of the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing six Italian soldiers and 10 Afghan civilians. (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood)
An Afghan walks through a river outside Feyzabad, east of Kunduz, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
A handout image obtained on September 10, 2009, from Britain's Ministry of Defence shows a female Afghan National Police (ANP) officer receiving weapons training on a Sig Sauer 9 mm pistol. The first thirteen female ANP recruits will soon be joining their male counterparts. (HANDOUT/AFP/Getty Images)
Two AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters land in central Afghanistan Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
A German ISAF soldier gets ready to join a patrol in Yaftal e Sofla, in the mountainous region of Feyzabad, east of Kunduz, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
A Canadian army medic examines one of eight children brought to a forward operating base after they fell gravely ill from eating explosive powder at a home in the Panjwai district of Kandahar province September 12, 2009. Roadside bombs made from homemade explosives are the leading killers of foreign troops in Afghanistan. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly)
Afghan children enjoy an evening at an amusement park, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
A German soldier sits next to candles lit to celebrate his 34th birthday, during a long term patrol in Yaftal e Sofla, in the mountainous region of Feyzabad, east of Kunduz, Afghanistan, early Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
Four-year-old Ella Roberts cuddles the hand of her father Lance Corporal Steven Roberts as he and comrades of 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh parade through Chester to say farewell to the city before deploying on operations to Afghanistan on September 25, 2009 in Chester, England. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
Simome, son of Sergent Major Roberto Valente, held by his mother, watches the arrival of the coffins of his father and the other five Italian soldiers of the ISAF who died in a suicide attack on an Italian military convoy in Kabul on Thursday Sept. 17 at Ciampino military airport, near Rome, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009. (FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images)
The coffins of the six Italian troopers killed in an attack on an Italian military convoy in Kabul on Thursday Sept. 17 arrive for the state funerals in St. Paul Outside the Walls Basilica, in Rome, Monday, Sept. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
n this photo taken Monday, Sept. 21, 2009, an Afghan national police officer searches a house during a search mission in Naka, East Paktika province in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh)
Soldiers from the U.S. Army's 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment (Airborne), based at Fort Richardson, Alaska, fire a 120mm mortar during a fire mission at the combat outpost Zerok in East Paktika province in Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh)
US Marines from 2/3 Fox company watch as parachutes loaded equipments to resupply their base in Farah Province, southern Afghanistan, on September 23, 2009. (DAVID FURST/AFP/Getty Images)
Fawad Rahmani, 11, prays inside his home while his brand new pair of braces fitted from the ICRC Orthopedic clinic lay on the ground beside him on September 25, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Fawad has had polio since he was two years old. Afghanistan is still fighting to eradicate polio - one of the few countries still dealing with the disease. Earlier this month UNICEF launched an immunization campaign targeting 1.2 million children with an aim is to immunize every child under five. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
An Afghan boy holds a toy gun as he enjoys a ride with others on a merry-go-round to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr festival, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009. Eid al-Fitr festival marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
A Canadian soldier works out using a makeshift weight made from barbed wire and rods, in the Panjwaii district of Kandahar province, September 23, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly)
A CH-53 helicopter releases flares after being shot at from the ground while flying over Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, on September 18, 2009. (DAVID FURST/AFP/Getty Images)
One of the six lakes that make up Band-E-Amir National Park is seen September 6, 2009 in Band-E-Amir, Afghanistan (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
A US Special Forces soldier observes as an Afghan National Police officer aims his assault-rifle during training in the village of Nili, Afghanistan on Sept. 18, 2009.
A damaged armored vehicle from the U.S. Army's Alpha Company, 3rd brigade of 10th Mountain Division based in Fort Drum, New York. The damage came from an IED laid by the Taliban along the road near the village of Eber in Logar province September 26, 2009. No one was injured in the incident. (REUTERS/Nikola Solic)
An Afghan man watches heavy traffic near a marketplace, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Afghan policemen (background) help a wounded man at the site of a suicide bomb attack at the main gate of a NATO military airport in Kabul on September 8, 2009. A suicide bomber exploded a car outside Kabul's military airport September 8, killing two Afghan civilians and wounding 10 people including four foreign soldiers, officials said. (Pajhwok Photo Service/AFP/Getty Images)
Supporters of opposition candidate Abdullah Abdullah listen to a speech in a tent during a gathering held in his support in Kabul September 27, 2009. (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood)
An Afghan deminer uses a metal detector to search for ordinance on top the archaelogical site of Shahr-i-Gholghola September 2 , 2009 in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. Afghan Technical Concultants (ATC) and the UN Mine Action center are working together to clear the ancient preserved ruins in the Bamiyan area, the project started on May 5th and will finish on October 15. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
Maj. Gen. William Freeman hands a flag to Shelby Summers, daughter of Army Sgt. 1st Class Severin West Summers III, of Bentonia, Mississippi, at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, Aug. 31, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. Summers was killed in Afghanistan on Aug. 2, 2009. From left, Freeman, Tammy Summers, wife of Severin West Summers III, and Shelby Summers. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
This Sept. 8, 2009 photo shows a soldier with the 6th Kandak Commandos of the Afghan National Army firing a machine gun during night training at their training base close to Rish Khoor village near Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Running past wreckage and body parts, Afghan policemen secure the scene of a blast in Kabul September 17, 2009. A suicide bomber hit a NATO military vehicle on a road between the U.S. embassy and the main airport in the centre of the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing six Italian soldiers and 10 Afghan civilians. (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood)
An Afghan walks through a river outside Feyzabad, east of Kunduz, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
A handout image obtained on September 10, 2009, from Britain's Ministry of Defence shows a female Afghan National Police (ANP) officer receiving weapons training on a Sig Sauer 9 mm pistol. The first thirteen female ANP recruits will soon be joining their male counterparts. (HANDOUT/AFP/Getty Images)
Two AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters land in central Afghanistan Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
A German ISAF soldier gets ready to join a patrol in Yaftal e Sofla, in the mountainous region of Feyzabad, east of Kunduz, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
A Canadian army medic examines one of eight children brought to a forward operating base after they fell gravely ill from eating explosive powder at a home in the Panjwai district of Kandahar province September 12, 2009. Roadside bombs made from homemade explosives are the leading killers of foreign troops in Afghanistan. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly)
Afghan children enjoy an evening at an amusement park, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
A German soldier sits next to candles lit to celebrate his 34th birthday, during a long term patrol in Yaftal e Sofla, in the mountainous region of Feyzabad, east of Kunduz, Afghanistan, early Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
Four-year-old Ella Roberts cuddles the hand of her father Lance Corporal Steven Roberts as he and comrades of 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh parade through Chester to say farewell to the city before deploying on operations to Afghanistan on September 25, 2009 in Chester, England. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
Simome, son of Sergent Major Roberto Valente, held by his mother, watches the arrival of the coffins of his father and the other five Italian soldiers of the ISAF who died in a suicide attack on an Italian military convoy in Kabul on Thursday Sept. 17 at Ciampino military airport, near Rome, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009. (FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images)
The coffins of the six Italian troopers killed in an attack on an Italian military convoy in Kabul on Thursday Sept. 17 arrive for the state funerals in St. Paul Outside the Walls Basilica, in Rome, Monday, Sept. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
n this photo taken Monday, Sept. 21, 2009, an Afghan national police officer searches a house during a search mission in Naka, East Paktika province in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh)
Soldiers from the U.S. Army's 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment (Airborne), based at Fort Richardson, Alaska, fire a 120mm mortar during a fire mission at the combat outpost Zerok in East Paktika province in Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh)
US Marines from 2/3 Fox company watch as parachutes loaded equipments to resupply their base in Farah Province, southern Afghanistan, on September 23, 2009. (DAVID FURST/AFP/Getty Images)
Fawad Rahmani, 11, prays inside his home while his brand new pair of braces fitted from the ICRC Orthopedic clinic lay on the ground beside him on September 25, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Fawad has had polio since he was two years old. Afghanistan is still fighting to eradicate polio - one of the few countries still dealing with the disease. Earlier this month UNICEF launched an immunization campaign targeting 1.2 million children with an aim is to immunize every child under five. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
An Afghan boy holds a toy gun as he enjoys a ride with others on a merry-go-round to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr festival, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009. Eid al-Fitr festival marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
A Canadian soldier works out using a makeshift weight made from barbed wire and rods, in the Panjwaii district of Kandahar province, September 23, 2009. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly)
