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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 9: An Afghan police officer watches a ceremony in Kabul Sports Stadium September 9, 2002  to comemerate the anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 8: Afghan police practice marching into Kabul Sports Stadium September 8, 2002 in preparation for the events tied to tomorrow's  anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 8: ISAF soldiers patrol the area surrounding Kabul Sports Stadium September 8, 2002 in preparation for the events tied to tomorrow's  anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 8: Afghan police practice marching into Kabul Sports Stadium September 8, 2002 in preparation for the events tied to tomorrow's  anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 8: Afghan police practice marching into Kabul Sports Stadium September 8, 2002 in preparation for the events tied to tomorrow's  anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 9: An Afghan woman holds a photo of Afghan's interim President Hamid Karzai during a ceremony in Kabul Sports Stadium September 9, 2002  to comemerate the anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 9: An Afghan girl holds a portrait of slain leader Ahmad Shah Massoud during a ceremony in Kabul Sports Stadium September 9, 2002  to comemerate the anniversary of his death  in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 9:  Afghans watch a ceremony in Kabul Sports Stadium September 9, 2002  to comemerate the anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 9: An Afghan police officer watches an ISAF helicopter patrol  Kabul Sports Stadium September 9, 2002  during a ceremony to comemerate the anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 9: An Afghan police officer chants "Allah Akbar" or "God is Great" during a ceremony in Kabul Sports Stadium September 9, 2002  to comemerate the anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 9: An Afghan police officer watches a ceremony in Kabul Sports Stadium September 9, 2002  to comemerate the anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 8: Afghan police practice marching into Kabul Sports Stadium September 8, 2002 in preparation for the events tied to tomorrow's  anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 8: Afghan police practice marching into Kabul Sports Stadium September 8, 2002 in preparation for the events tied to tomorrow's  anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 8: German ISAF forces check Afghan workers before they are allowed to enter  Kabul Sports Stadium September 8, 2002 in preparation for the events tied to tomorrow's  anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 8: Afghan police practice marching into Kabul Sports Stadium September 8, 2002 in preparation for the events tied to tomorrow's  anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 8: Afghan police practice marching into Kabul Sports Stadium September 8, 2002 in preparation for the events tied to tomorrow's  anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 8: Afghan police practice marching into Kabul Sports Stadium September 8, 2002 in preparation for the events tied to tomorrow's  anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 2: Abdullah Shkib, a member of the Afghan boxing team who will be going to the Korean Games trains in the bottom of the Kabul Sports stadium September 2, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. It is the first time that an Afghan boxing team will be participating in an international sporting event. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 9: German ISAF soldiers watch a ceremony in Kabul Sports Stadium September 9, 2002  to comemerate the anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 8: Afghan police practice marching into Kabul Sports Stadium September 8, 2002 in preparation for the events tied to tomorrow's  anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan women wait with their children to be seen by a doctor in the Indira Ghandi Hospital for Children August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan. The hospital has 300 beds but usually it is filled at double capacity with only 118 doctors. One in four children die before the age of 5 in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: An Afghan bride's   grandmother and husband put on rings during an engagement ceremony, August 30, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The bride is given earrings, a necklace, rings and other gold jewelry along with new clothes and shoes during the ceremony.  Each Friday, every beauty salon is filled with  brides, the hotels are jammed with young couples and most streets are packed with streams of cars, blaring their horns as Afghans rush to get married after decades of war. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11: An Afghan girl with polio and a man who lost his leg  learn to walk with at an ICRC hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002. While Americans are remembering the attack on the World Trade Center  one year ago today, most Afghans are trying to forget the decades old war which killed more than a million people here in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan street children watch a Japanese dancer perform a piece called "Reconstruction" at the ASIANA school August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan.  The Japanese program concluded with 1000 musical instruments donated to the children.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Dr. Abdul Qader Ghafari stitches the hand of  Rashid, 6, in the Indira Ghandi Hospital for Children August 29, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The hospital has 300 beds but usually it is filled at double capacity with only 118 doctors. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: An Afghan bride prepares for wedding photos as her sister gestures to  stop so she can look in the mirror first during a wedding ceremony, August 30, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. In Afghan weddings, the bride will first wear a green dress and laer change into a white dress. Each Friday, every beauty salon is filled with  brides, the hotels are jammed with young couples and most streets are packed with streams of cars, blaring their horns as Afghans rush to get married after decades of war. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: An Afghan child sleeps before the bride and groom take over the wedding coach built on a stage where they will sit beofre their guests during a wedding ceremony, August 30, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Each Friday, every beauty salon is filled with  brides, the hotels are jammed with young couples and most streets are packed with streams of cars, blaring their horns as Afghans rush to get married after decades of war. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: An Afghan couple sits in front of a fan and their guests at an engagement ceremony, August 30, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. After they cut the cake, the dowry is shown to the entire family. Each Friday, every beauty salon is filled with  brides, the hotels are jammed with young couples and most streets are packed with streams of cars, blaring their horns as Afghans rush to get married after decades of war. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: An Afghan woman has her face made up in a beauty salon so she can be beautiful for her son's wedding engagement ceremony, August 30, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Each Friday, every beauty salon is filled with  brides, the hotels are jammed with young couples and most streets are packed with streams of cars, blaring their horns as Afghans rush to get married after decades of war. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 12:  Orphans sleep inside the Allawdin orphanage  in Kabul, Afghanistan September 12,2002. The orphange which houses about 200 children who sleep there was rebuilt by the Italian ISAf forces and is funded by the World Food Program.   (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 12: Nazir Mohammad stands inside the ruins of the former Presidential Palace  in Kabul, Afghanistan September 12,2002.   (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 12:  An Afghan sits inside a music store next to posters of famous Indian Bollywood stars in Kabul, Afghanistan September 12,2002. Since the fall of the Taliban, Indian  movies and music have flooded the Afghan market and is hugely popular but the Ministry of Culture has recently banned showing Indian movies on television because it is considered too risque by some.   (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 12:  Fatima and Nadia, both orphans living at the Shahad Nik Mohammed orphanage  in Kabul, Afghanistan cry September 12,2002. The children only had tea to drink this morning because there was not even money for bread which costs about five cents a loaf. They are living in desperate conditions as this country struggles to rebuild itself.   (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 12:  Zahara holds Nadia, both orphans living at the Shahad Nik Mohammed orphanage  in Kabul, Afghanistan September 12,2002. The children only had tea to drink this morning because there was not even money for bread which costs about five cents a loaf. They are living in desperate conditions as this country struggles to rebuild itself.   (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 12:  Fatima and Nadia, both orphans living at the Shahad Nik Mohammed orphanage  in Kabul, Afghanistan cry September 12,2002. The children only had tea to drink this morning because there was not even money for bread which costs about five cents a loaf. They are living in desperate conditions as this country struggles to rebuild itself.   (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11: An Afghan boy with polio is fitted for a leg brace that he will learn to walk with at an ICRC hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002. While Americans are remembering the attack on the World Trade Center  one year ago today, most Afghans are trying to forget the decades old war which killed more than a million people here in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11: An Afghan girl and man who lost their legs to explosive devices  learn to walk with at an ICRC hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002. While Americans are remembering the attack on the World Trade Center  one year ago today, most Afghans are trying to forget the decades old war which killed more than a million people here in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11:  Mohammed Hazim who is crippled prepares to have braces made for him to enable him to walk at the ICRC hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11: An Afghan girl learns to walk with an  artificial leg at an ICRC hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002. While Americans are remembering the attack on the World Trade Center  one year ago today, most Afghans are trying to forget the decades old war which killed more than a million people here in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 10:  Afghan girls learn too sew September 10, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 10:  An Afghan woman and boy wait to buy bread at a subsidized price from a bakery run by widowed women set up to help vulnerable families in Kabul, Afghanistan September 10,2002. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 10:  Afghan widows make bread in a bakery set up to help vulnerable families by subsidizing the cost of bread in Kabul, Afghanistan September 10,2002. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 10:  Afghan girls learn to sew in a program run through the UN Habitat September 10, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  Old magazines of western and Indian models decorate the walls fo the workshop. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 9: An Afghan holds an umbrella over the head Ahmad Massoud, the son of the slain leader Ahmad Shah Massoud during a ceremony in Kabul Sports Stadium September 9, 2002  to commemorate  the one-year anniversary of the death of his father.   (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 9: Afghan women hold portraits of Ahmad Shah Massoud during a ceremony in Kabul Sports Stadium, September 9, 2002  to comemerate the anniversary of his death. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 2: An Afghan police officer gurads the stadium where President Hamid Karzai, together with representatives of the Ministry of Public Health, WHO and UNICEF kicked off a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign against polio September 2, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign will target 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators will go from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket are immunised. President Karzai adminstered the first drops of the Oral Polio Vaccine to an unidentifies Afghan child. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 2: An Afghan police officer gurads the stadium where President Hamid Karzai, together with representatives of the Ministry of Public Health, WHO and UNICEF kicked off a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign against polio September 2, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign will target 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators will go from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket are immunised. President Karzai adminstered the first drops of the Oral Polio Vaccine to an unidentifies Afghan child. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 2: An Afghan police officer gurads the stadium where President Hamid Karzai, together with representatives of the Ministry of Public Health, WHO and UNICEF kicked off a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign against polio September 2, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign will target 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators will go from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket are immunised. President Karzai adminstered the first drops of the Oral Polio Vaccine to an unidentifies Afghan child. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan street children watch a Japanese dancer perform a piece called "Reconstruction" at the ASIANA school August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan.  The Japanese program concluded with 1000 musical instruments donated to the children.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan street children practice in their costumes and masks for a Japanese sponsored cultural event August 29, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  The Japanese program concluded with 1000 musical instruments donated to the children.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan street children watch a Japanese dancer perform a piece called "Reconstruction" at the ASIANA school August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan.  The Japanese program concluded with 1000 musical instruments donated to the children.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
    kab113C.jpg
  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan street children scream as a boy in their school dressed up in a mask tries to scare them at the ASIANA school August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan.  The children were there for a Japanese music and dance program which concluded with 1000 musical instruments donated to the children.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: An Afghan child attends a Japanese music and dance performance  at the ASIANA school August 29, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  The Japanese program concluded with 1000 musical instruments donated to the children.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan street children watch a Japanese dancer perform a piece called "Reconstruction" at the ASIANA school August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan.  The Japanese program concluded with 1000 musical instruments donated to the children.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
    kab107F.jpg
  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Zeeya-u-din, 1, who suffers from severe malnutrition cries in the Indira Ghandi Hospital for Children August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan. The hospital has 300 beds but usually it is filled at double capacity with only 118 doctors. One in four children die before the age of 5 in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Amir Rahman, 2, and Farshad, 6 months, sleep in the Indira Ghandi Hospital for Children August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan. The hospital has 300 beds but usually it is filled at double capacity with only 118 doctors. One in four children die before the age of 5 in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan women sit by their children Tofan, 1, left, and Zeeya-u-din, 1, who suffer from severe malnutrition in the Indira Ghandi Hospital for Children August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan. The hospital has 300 beds but usually it is filled at double capacity with only 118 doctors. One in four children die before the age of 5 in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan women wait with their children to be seen by a doctor in the Indira Ghandi Hospital for Children August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan. The hospital has 300 beds but usually it is filled at double capacity with only 118 doctors. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
    kab101H.jpg
  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29:  Afghan boys mimic Michael Jackson while they dance during an engagement ceremony, August 30, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Each Friday, every beauty salon is filled with  brides, the hotels are jammed with young couples and most streets are packed with streams of cars, blaring their horns as Afghans rush to get married after decades of war. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29:  Afghan women talk around their dinner table as a baby sits cradled next the the silverware before the food is brought out during a wedding ceremony, August 30, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Each Friday, every beauty salon is filled with  brides, the hotels are jammed with young couples and most streets are packed with streams of cars, blaring their horns as Afghans rush to get married after decades of war. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: An Afghan bride's dowry is displayed for all the guests to see during an engagement ceremony, August 30, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Each Friday, every beauty salon is filled with  brides, the hotels are jammed with young couples and most streets are packed with streams of cars, blaring their horns as Afghans rush to get married after decades of war. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: An Afghan cride and groom wait fro jewelry to be brought out which will ceremoniously be put on her by her fiance, father, mother and grandmother during an engagement ceremony, August 30, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Each Friday, every beauty salon is filled with  brides, the hotels are jammed with young couples and most streets are packed with streams of cars, blaring their horns as Afghans rush to get married after decades of war. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: An Afghan woman prepares to leave a beauty salon after getting her hair and face made up in preparation for her wedding ceremony, August 30, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Each Friday, every beauty salon is filled with  brides, the hotels are jammed with young couples and most streets are packed with streams of cars, blaring their horns as Afghans rush to get married after decades of war. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
    kab113x.jpg
  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: An Afghan bride's mother and grandmother put in an earring during an engagement ceremony, August 30, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The bride is given earrings, a necklace, rings and other gold jewelry along with new clothes and shoes during the ceremony.  Each Friday, every beauty salon is filled with  brides, the hotels are jammed with young couples and most streets are packed with streams of cars, blaring their horns as Afghans rush to get married after decades of war. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29:  Afghan women who were sitting inside with their children, watch family members dance at an engagement ceremony, August 30, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Each Friday, every beauty salon is filled with  brides, the hotels are jammed with young couples and most streets are packed with streams of cars, blaring their horns as Afghans rush to get married after decades of war. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: An Afghan wedding party heads to their family's wedding ceremony, August 30, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Each Friday, every beauty salon is filled with  brides, the hotels are jammed with young couples and most streets are packed with streams of cars, blaring their horns as Afghans rush to get married after decades of war. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
    kab108C.jpg
  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: An Afghan couple sits in front of a fan and their guests at an engagement ceremony, August 30, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. After they cut the cake, the dowry is shown to the entire family. Each Friday, every beauty salon is filled with  brides, the hotels are jammed with young couples and most streets are packed with streams of cars, blaring their horns as Afghans rush to get married after decades of war. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: An Afghan bride cries and kisses a relative goodbye at the end of her wedding ceremony inside a hotel, August 30, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Each Friday, every beauty salon is filled with  brides, the hotels are jammed with young couples and most streets are packed with streams of cars, blaring their horns as Afghans rush to get married after decades of war. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: An Afghan bride cries and kisses a relative goodbye at the end of her wedding ceremony inside a hotel, August 30, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Each Friday, every beauty salon is filled with  brides, the hotels are jammed with young couples and most streets are packed with streams of cars, blaring their horns as Afghans rush to get married after decades of war. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: An Afghan celebrate their wedding ceremony in a hotel, August 30, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Each Friday, every beauty salon is filled with  brides, the hotels are jammed with young couples and most streets are packed with streams of cars, blaring their horns as Afghans rush to get married after decades of war. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: An Afghan bride waits for her family to pick her up after getting her hair and face made up in a beauty salon, August 30, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Each Friday, every beauty salon is filled with  brides, the hotels are jammed with young couples and most streets are packed with streams of cars, blaring their horns as Afghans rush to get married after decades of war. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 12:  An Afghan teaches Tae Kwon Do in the bombed out former Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan September 12,2002.   (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 12:  Two Afghan soldiers hold hands as the sun sets near the destroyed Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan September 12,2002. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 12:  A young Afghan child wears a burka in Kabul, Afghanistan September 12,2002.     Despite the fall of the Taliban, the centuries old tradition of women wearing the burka still persists. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11:  American Marines listen to a speech at the United States Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002 where remains of the World Trade Center were laid as a symbolic gesture for those that died in the attack one year ago. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11:  An American Marine salutes during a ceremony at the United States Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002 where remains of the World Trade Center were laid as a symbolic gesture for those that died in the attack one year ago. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11:  American Marines listen to a speech at the United States Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002 where remains of the World Trade Center were laid as a symbolic gesture for those that died in the attack one year ago. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11: Afghan children who recently returned from Pakistan look for water and materials to rebuild their home inside a destroyed neighborhood of  Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002.  (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11:  American Marines listen to a speech at the United States Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002 where remains of the World Trade Center were laid as a symbolic gesture for those that died in the attack one year ago. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11:  American Marines listen to a speech at the United States Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002 where remains of the World Trade Center were laid as a symbolic gesture for those that died in the attack one year ago. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11:  An American Marine salutes during the unveiling of a plaque where remains of the World Trade Center were laid as a symbolic gesture for those that died in the attack on the World Trade Center one year ago at the United States Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002 . (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 10:  An Afghan teaches a girl how to write during a class for students having troubles in the main schools, September 10, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 10:   Afghan  widowed women make dough inside a screened room at a bakery set up to help vulnerable families in Kabul, Afghanistan September 10,2002. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 10:  An Afghan child waits to buy bread at a subsidized price from a bakery run by widowed women set up to help vulnerable families in Kabul, Afghanistan September 10,2002. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 9: Ahmad Massoud, the son of the slain leader Ahmad Shah Massoud  prepares to meet dignitaries, soldiers and guests during a ceremony in Kabul Sports Stadium September 9, 2002  to comemerate the one-year anniversary of the death of his father.   (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 9: An Afghan girl holds a photos of Ahmad Shah Massoud during a ceremony in Kabul Sports Stadium, September 9, 2002  to comemerate the one-year anniversary of his death. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 9: An Afghan girl holds a portrait of Ahmad Shah Massoud during a ceremony in Kabul Sports Stadium, September 9, 2002  to comemerate the anniversary of his death. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 9: Ahmad Massoud, the son of the slain leader Ahmad Shah Massoud  hugs and kisses dignitaries, soldiers and guests during a ceremony in Kabul Sports Stadium September 9, 2002  to comemerate the one-year anniversary of the death of his father.   (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 9: An Afghan girl holds a portrait of Ahmad Shah Massoud during a ceremony in Kabul Sports Stadium, September 9, 2002  to comemerate the anniversary of his death. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 8:  An Afghan child stands inside police headquarters where a poster of Ahmad Shah Massoud hangs September 8, 2002, the day before the  anniversary of his death in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 8: An Afghan policeman hangs up a poster of Ahmad Shah Massoud September 8, 2002 in preparation for the events tied to tomorrow's  anniversary of his death in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 2: An Afghan security guard and child watch the crowd as their President Hamid Karzai, together with representatives of the Ministry of Public Health, WHO and UNICEF kicked off a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign against polio September 2, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign will target 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators will go from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket are immunised. President Karzai adminstered the first drops of the Oral Polio Vaccine to an unidentified Afghan child. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 2: Afghan President Hamid Karzai, together with representatives of the Ministry of Public Health, WHO and UNICEF kicked off a three-day nation wide immunisation campaign against polio September 2, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  The latest campaign will target 5.9 million children under the age of five and teams of vaccinators will go from village to village to ensure that all children in that age bracket are immunised. President Karzai adminstered the first drops of the Oral Polio Vaccine to an  Afghan child. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan women sit by their children Tofan, 1, left, and Zeeya-u-din, 1, who suffer from severe malnutrition in the Indira Ghandi Hospital for Children August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan. The hospital has 300 beds but usually it is filled at double capacity with only 118 doctors. One in four children die before the age of 5 in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: Afghan women wait with their children to be seen by a doctor in the Indira Ghandi Hospital for Children August 29, 2002 in Kabul Afghanistan. The hospital has 300 beds but usually it is filled at double capacity with only 118 doctors. One in four children die before the age of 5 in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: An Afghan construction worker walks among the debris littering the Presidential palace, August 29, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan.  The palace was destroyed by the Taliban and now that Mohammad Zaher Shah has moved back in, it is being reconstructed. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: An Afghan bride leaves her house with the Holy Koran carried over her head during an engagement ceremony, August 30, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Each Friday, every beauty salon is filled with  brides, the hotels are jammed with young couples and most streets are packed with streams of cars, blaring their horns as Afghans rush to get married after decades of war. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29:  Afghan women who were sitting inside with their children, watch family members dance at an engagement ceremony, August 30, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Each Friday, every beauty salon is filled with  brides, the hotels are jammed with young couples and most streets are packed with streams of cars, blaring their horns as Afghans rush to get married after decades of war. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 29: An Afghan woman puts her burka on after getting her hair and face made up in a beauty salon and waits for the cars to take her and the rest of her female relatives to their house for a wedding ceremony, August 30, 2002 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Each Friday, every beauty salon is filled with  brides, the hotels are jammed with young couples and most streets are packed with streams of cars, blaring their horns as Afghans rush to get married after decades of war. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KABUL,AFGHANISTAN - SEPT. 11:  American Marines walk back into the American Embassy after they listened to a speech in Kabul, Afghanistan September 11,2002 where remains of the World Trade Center were laid as a symbolic gesture for those that died in the attack one year ago.While Americans are remembering the attack, most Afghans are trying to forget the decades old war which killed more than a million people here in Afghanistan. (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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