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10 years on and life grim for Afghans (AP)

In this Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011 photo, an Afghan National Army soldier relaxes on his bed inside the sleeping quarters of their barracks in Kunduz, northen Afghanistan. As the U.S. and NATO mark 10 years of war in Afghanistan, a grim picture emerges from scores of interviews over six months across the country with ordinary Afghans, government officials, soldiers, and former and current Taliban. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)AP – Asif Khan sits on a dirty, once-white blanket in an abandoned cinema and fights back tears of desperation.


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Afghans give Pakistan evidence in Rabbani killing (AP)

Spokesman for Afghanistan's National Security Lotfollah Mashal talks to the journalists in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday Oct. 1, 2011. Afghanistan's intelligence service says it has handed Pakistani authorities evidence showing former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani's assassination was planned in Pakistan. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)AP – Afghanistan’s intelligence service said Saturday it has given Pakistan hard evidence that former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani’s assassination was planned in the southern outskirts of the Pakistani city of Quetta where key Taliban leaders are based.


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AP EXCLUSIVE: Afghans scuttle US-Taliban talks (AP)

FILE  - This undated file photo reportedly shows the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar. Infuriated that Washington met secretly at least three times with a personal emissary of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Afghan government intentionally leaked details of the clandestine meetings, scuttling the talks and sending the Taliban intermediary into hiding, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/ File)AP – Infuriated that Washington met secretly at least three times with a personal emissary of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Afghan government intentionally leaked details of the clandestine meetings, scuttling the talks and sending the Taliban intermediary into hiding, The Associated Press has learned.


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Copter shot down, killing 30 US troops, 8 Afghans (AP)

Virginia Beach residents Tom Hall, left, and Mark Janik, center, watch as news about the Navy Seal Team Six helicopter accident is displayed on a television at a bar in Virginia Beach , Va., Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011. The headquarters for the Navy Seal Team Six is located in Virgina Beach. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP – Insurgents shot down a U.S. military helicopter during fighting in eastern Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the same elite Navy SEALs unit that killed Osama bin Laden, as well as seven Afghan commandos, U.S. officials said Saturday. It was the deadliest single loss for American forces in the decade-old war.


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Copter shot down, killing 30 US troops, 7 Afghans (AP)

ADDS DATE OF CRASH - FILE - A US Marine tries to take cover, perched on a container, trying to shelter from the dust as a Chinook helicopter arrives to pick up supplies at Forward Operating Base Edi in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, in this June 9, 2011 file photo. Afghan President Hamid Karzai says 31 U.S. special forces and seven Afghan soldiers were killed when a helicopter, similar to the one shown crashed in eastern Wardak province Saturday Aug. 6, 2011.  (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)AP – Insurgents shot down a U.S. military helicopter during fighting in eastern Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the same elite unit as the Navy SEALs who killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, as well as seven Afghan commandos, U.S. officials said Saturday. It what was the deadliest single loss for American forces in the decade-old war against the Taliban.


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31 Americans, 7 Afghans killed in helicopter crash (AP)

ADDS DATE OF CRASH - FILE - A US Marine tries to take cover, perched on a container, trying to shelter from the dust as a Chinook helicopter arrives to pick up supplies at Forward Operating Base Edi in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, in this June 9, 2011 file photo. Afghan President Hamid Karzai says 31 U.S. special forces and seven Afghan soldiers were killed when a helicopter, similar to the one shown crashed in eastern Wardak province Saturday Aug. 6, 2011.  (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)AP – A military helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. special operation troops and seven Afghan commandos, the country’s president said Saturday. An American official said it was apparently shot down, in the deadliest single incident for American forces in the decade-long war.


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Kabul police: 10 Afghans killed in hotel attack (AP)

The Inter Continental hotel is on fire during an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 29, 2011. A more than four-hour standoff between militants and Afghan police at the Western-style hotel ended early Wednesday when NATO helicopters fired rockets at gunmen on the rooftop of the besieged hotel and Afghan security forces stormed the top of the building. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)AP – The death toll in the attack on an international hotel in Kabul has risen to 10.


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