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  • Money changers and life in the central market  in Kabul, Afghanistan August 5, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shafika Abbasi, 20, left, who was living in Burke, Va. for the last four years and a relative, Belquis Azizyar, right, visits her cousin Nafisa Arifi after she gave birth to a baby girl  at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shafika Abbasi, 20, left, who was living in Burke, Va. for the last four years and a relative, Belquis Azizyar, right, visits her cousin Nafisa Arifi after she gave birth to a baby girl  at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • KABUL, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 4, 2002:   Afghans who were trained for the close protection team by Italian paratroopers working as part of the International Security and Assistance Force  in Afghanistan hold a ceremony marking their completion of the training August 4, 2002 in Kabul.(Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans recent returnees live in the ruins of a bombed out building with no running water  or access to health care in central Kabul, Afghanistan August 3, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans recent returnees live in the ruins of a bombed out building with no running water  or access to health care in central Kabul, Afghanistan August 3, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - FEBRUARY 27: Orthodox Jewish men stand in the rain at the funeral for a rabbi in Jerusalem, Israel February 27, 2003.  Thousands of people gathered to take part in the procession.  (Ami Vitale/Getty Images).
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  • A Senegalese army tank drives through the border of Guinea Bissau  and Senegal  in the Casamance region of West Africa. Rebels in Senegal's southern Casamance [Cassamance] province have been waging a bloody independence campaign against the central government in Dakar since 1982. The Movement of Democratic Forces in the Casamance (MFDC) has long used Senegal's southern neighbor Guinea-Bissau as a launching pad for attacks inside Cassamance. Guinea-Bissau's former president, Joao Bernardo Viera, was accused of supplying the rebels with weapons until he was overthrown in a coup in May 1999.    (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • KUPWARA, KASHMIR - AUGUST 18: An Army soldier sits inside a truck along the Line of Control in the Keran Sector of the Kupwara District in the Indian held state of Jammu and  Kashmir August 18, 2002.  Indian Army troops killed 7 militants early yesterday morning as they attempted to infiltrate from Pakistan along the Line of Control. They carried with them a large quantity of ammunition, arms and jehadi literature.   (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • Afghans use dirty stream water to bath and wash their clothes in central Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans make wheel chairs and plastic limbs for patients at the orthopedic center set up by the International Committee for the Red Cross in Kabul, Afghanistan August 5, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Money changers and life in the central market  in Kabul, Afghanistan August 5, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • KABUL, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 4, 2002:   Afghans who were trained for the close protection team by Italian paratroopers working as part of the International Security and Assistance Force  in Afghanistan hold a ceremony marking their completion of the training August 4, 2002 in Kabul.(Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Money changers and life in the central market  in Kabul, Afghanistan August 5, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Money changers and life in the central market  in Kabul, Afghanistan August 5, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Money changers and life in the central market  in Kabul, Afghanistan August 5, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Patients at the orthopedic center set up by the International Committee for the Red Cross in Kabul, Afghanistan August 5, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans make wheel chairs and plastic limbs for patients at the orthopedic center set up by the International Committee for the Red Cross in Kabul, Afghanistan August 5, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Mehrabab, 50, holds his son Hagmatullah at the orthopedic center set up by the International Committee for the Red Cross in Kabul, Afghanistan August 5, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shafika Abbasi, 20, left, who was living in Burke, Va. for the last four years and a relative, Belquis Azizyar, right, visits her cousin Nafisa Arifi after she gave birth to a baby girl  at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shafika Abbasi, 20, left, who was living in Burke, Va. for the last four years and a relative, Belquis Azizyar, right, visits her cousin Nafisa Arifi after she gave birth to a baby girl  at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • KABUL, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 4, 2002:   Afghans who were trained for the close protection team by Italian paratroopers working as part of the International Security and Assistance Force  in Afghanistan hold a ceremony marking their completion of the training August 4, 2002 in Kabul.(Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans recent returnees live in the ruins of a bombed out building with no running water  or access to health care in central Kabul, Afghanistan August 3, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans recent returnees live in the ruins of a bombed out building with no running water  or access to health care in central Kabul, Afghanistan August 3, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans recent returnees live in the ruins of a bombed out building with no running water  or access to health care in central Kabul, Afghanistan August 3, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans recent returnees live in the ruins of a bombed out building with no running water  or access to health care in central Kabul, Afghanistan August 3, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans recent returnees live in the ruins of a bombed out building with no running water  or access to health care in central Kabul, Afghanistan August 3, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans recent returnees live in the ruins of a bombed out building with no running water  or access to health care in central Kabul, Afghanistan August 3, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans recent returnees live in the ruins of a bombed out building with no running water  or access to health care in central Kabul, Afghanistan August 3, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • The road from Bamiya to Kabul, Afghanistan August 2, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • The road from Bamiya to Kabul, Afghanistan August 2, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • The road from Bamiya to Kabul, Afghanistan August 2, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans harvest wheat in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, the site of the ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban August 1, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans harvest wheat in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, the site of the ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban August 1, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans harvest wheat in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, the site of the ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban August 1, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans harvest wheat in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, the site of the ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban August 1, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans harvest wheat in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, the site of the ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban August 1, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans harvest wheat in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, the site of the ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban August 1, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans harvest wheat in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, the site of the ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban August 1, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans harvest wheat in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, the site of the ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban August 1, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • QAFIN, WEST BANK, FEBRUARY 21: Palestinian children collect grass in olive groves February 21, 2003 that have been cut down in order to build a wall that will separate the West Bank from Israel alongside their village of Qafin .  The villagers will not be able to access their land once the wall has been erected.(Ami Vitale/Getty Images).
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  • A Kashmiri man prepares to take his canoe across Srinagar's Dal Lake in the troubled state of Kashmir Sunday, November 18, 2001.  Kashmir's beauty is unmatched and once had a thriving tourism industry but because of the war, it has come to a virtual and complete halt.  The war in Kashmir has been going on since 1989 when militant organizations chose to fight for secession from India and now the war in Afghanistan  has made the region even more volatile . (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • An Indian soldier waits after a rocket and grenades were launched at armed militants who infiltrated the Poonch district of Jammu and were hiding in a villagers house along the Line of Control between Pakistan and India Friday, November 2, 2001. The militants were allegedly crossing the border to fight for the jihad in Kashmir. (Getty Images/Ami Vitale)
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  • A Senegalese army tank drives through the border of Guinea Bissau  and Senegal  in the Casamance region of West Africa. Rebels in Senegal's southern Casamance [Cassamance] province have been waging a bloody independence campaign against the central government in Dakar since 1982. The Movement of Democratic Forces in the Casamance (MFDC) has long used Senegal's southern neighbor Guinea-Bissau as a launching pad for attacks inside Cassamance. Guinea-Bissau's former president, Joao Bernardo Viera, was accused of supplying the rebels with weapons until he was overthrown in a coup in May 1999.    (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Africans scramble to get on the few trucks that are allowed through the border of Guinea Bissau and Senegal. Rebels in Senegal's southern Casamance [Cassamance] province have been waging a bloody independence campaign against the central government in Dakar since 1982. The Movement of Democratic Forces in the Casamance (MFDC) has long used Senegal's southern neighbor Guinea-Bissau as a launching pad for attacks inside Cassamance. Guinea-Bissau's former president, Joao Bernardo Viera, was accused of supplying the rebels with weapons until he was overthrown in a coup in May 1999.    (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • KUPWARA, KASHMIR - AUGUST 18: Indian Army soldiers demonstrate a patrol along the Line of Control in the Keran Sector of the Kupwara District in the Indian held state of Jammu and  Kashmir August 18, 2002.  Indian Army troops killed 7 militants early yesterday morning as they attempted to infiltrate from Pakistan along the Line of Control. They carried with them a large quantity of ammunition, arms and jehadi literature.   (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KUPWARA, KASHMIR - AUGUST 18: The body of a militant killed by Indian Army soldiers along the Line of Control in the Keran Sector of the Kupwara District in the Indian held state of Jammu and  Kashmir is displayed for media August 18, 2002.  Indian Army troops killed 7 militants early yesterday morning as they attempted to infiltrate from Pakistan along the Line of Control. They carried with them a large quantity of ammunition, arms and jehadi literature.   (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KUPWARA, KASHMIR - AUGUST 18: Indian Army soldiers demonstrate a patrol along the Line of Control in the Keran Sector of the Kupwara District in the Indian held state of Jammu and  Kashmir August 18, 2002.  Indian Army troops killed 7 militants early yesterday morning as they attempted to infiltrate from Pakistan along the Line of Control. They carried with them a large quantity of ammunition, arms and jehadi literature.   (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KUPWARA, KASHMIR - AUGUST 18: Rice fields near the Line of Control in the Keran Sector of the Kupwara District in the Indian held state of Jammu and  Kashmir is seen from above, August 18, 2002.  Indian Army troops killed 7 militants early yesterday morning as they attempted to infiltrate from Pakistan along the Line of Control. They carried with them a large quantity of ammunition, arms and jehadi literature.   (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KUPWARA, KASHMIR - AUGUST 18: Rice fields near the Line of Control in the Keran Sector of the Kupwara District in the Indian held state of Jammu and  Kashmir is seen from above, August 18, 2002.  Indian Army troops killed 7 militants early yesterday morning as they attempted to infiltrate from Pakistan along the Line of Control. They carried with them a large quantity of ammunition, arms and jehadi literature.   (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KUPWARA, KASHMIR - AUGUST 18: Indian Army soldiers stand along the Line of Control in the Keran Sector of the Kupwara District in the Indian held state of Jammu and  Kashmir August 18, 2002.  Indian Army troops killed 7 militants early yesterday morning as they attempted to infiltrate from Pakistan along the Line of Control. They carried with them a large quantity of ammunition, arms and jehadi literature.   (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - FEBRUARY 27:An Orthodox Jewish boy slips on the ice as he watches  the funeral for a rabbi in Jerusalem, Israel February 27, 2003.  Thousands of people gathered to take part in the funeral procession.  (Ami Vitale/Getty Images).
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  • AZZARIYA, WEST BANK, MARCH 5: A nurse hugs one child at  Arba'at Batei Hahemla (Four Houses of Mercy)  for mentally disabled, autistic and physically handicapped Palestinians and others who have no family or have been abandoned March 5, 2003 in n Azzariya, West Bank. It was founded in 1940 by the late Palestinian philanthropist Catherine Siksek and is one place in the occupied territories where dozens of Palestinians and some of society's weakest members find protection and care. Outside there is war, destruction, poverty and humiliation but inside it is a place of joy that none of the devastaton has been allowed to penetrate.  The doctors and nurses work grueling days for little pay and often spend 4 hours a day just to travel a few miles to get through Israeli checkpoints but it never deters them.  (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • An isolated canoe makes its way across Srinagar's Dal Lake in the troubled state of Kashmir Sunday, November 18, 2001.  Kashmir's beauty is unmatched and once had a thriving tourism industry but because of the war, it has come to a virtual and complete halt.  The war in Kashmir has been going on since 1989 when militant organizations chose to fight for secession from India and now the war in Afghanistan  has made the region even more volatile . (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • KUPWARA, KASHMIR - AUGUST 18: Rice fields near the Line of Control in the Keran Sector of the Kupwara District in the Indian held state of Jammu and  Kashmir is seen from above, August 18, 2002.  Indian Army troops killed 7 militants early yesterday morning as they attempted to infiltrate from Pakistan along the Line of Control. They carried with them a large quantity of ammunition, arms and jehadi literature.
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  • AZZARIYA, WEST BANK, MARCH 5: Mentally disabled, autistic and physically handicapped Palestinians and others who have no family or have been abandoned, find protection and receive compassionate treatment March 5, 2003 in Arba'at Batei Hahemla (Four Houses of Mercy) in Azzariya, West Bank. It was founded in 1940 by the late Palestinian philanthropist Catherine Siksek and is one place in the occupied territories where dozens of Palestinians and some of society's weakest members find care. Outside there is war, destruction, poverty and humiliation but inside it is a place of joy that none of the devastaton has been allowed to penetrate.  The doctors and nurses work grueling days for little pay and often spend 4 hours a day just to travel a few miles to get through Israeli checkpoints but it never deters them.
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  • AZZARIYA, WEST BANK, MARCH 5: Mentally disabled, autistic and physically handicapped Palestinians and others who have no family or have been abandoned, find protection and receive compassionate treatment March 5, 2003 in Arba'at Batei Hahemla (Four Houses of Mercy) in Azzariya, West Bank. It was founded in 1940 by the late Palestinian philanthropist Catherine Siksek and is one place in the occupied territories where dozens of Palestinians and some of society's weakest members find care. Outside there is war, destruction, poverty and humiliation but inside it is a place of joy that none of the devastaton has been allowed to penetrate.  The doctors and nurses work grueling days for little pay and often spend 4 hours a day just to travel a few miles to get through Israeli checkpoints but it never deters them.
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  • AZZARIYA, WEST BANK, MARCH 5: Mentally disabled, autistic and physically handicapped Palestinians and others who have no family or have been abandoned, find protection and receive compassionate treatment March 5, 2003 in Arba'at Batei Hahemla (Four Houses of Mercy) in Azzariya, West Bank. It was founded in 1940 by the late Palestinian philanthropist Catherine Siksek and is one place in the occupied territories where dozens of Palestinians and some of society's weakest members find care. Outside their is war, destruction, poverty and humiliation but inside it is a place of joy where none of the devastaton has been allowed to penetrate.  The doctors and nurses work grueling days for little pay and often spend 4 hours a day just to travel a few miles to get through Israeli checkpoints but it never deters them.  (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • AZZARIYA, WEST BANK, MARCH 5: Mentally disabled, autistic and physically handicapped Palestinians and others who have no family or have been abandoned hug eachother and find protection March 5, 2003 in Arba'at Batei Hahemla (Four Houses of Mercy) in Azzariya, West Bank. It was founded in 1940 by the late Palestinian philanthropist Catherine Siksek and is one place in the occupied territories where dozens of Palestinians and some of society's weakest members find care. Outside there is war, destruction, poverty and humiliation but inside it is a place of joy that none of the devastaton has been allowed to penetrate.  The doctors and nurses work grueling days for little pay and often spend 4 hours a day just to travel a few miles to get through Israeli checkpoints but it never deters them.
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  • TZIPOREN, ISRAEL, MARCH 2:An Israeli soldier gestures to journalists next to the border with Lebanon near Tziporen army base in north Israel, Sunday, March 2, 2003 as Hezbollah Shiite militants watch from the other side of the fence.  .
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  • SRINAGAR, KASHMIR - SEPT. 24: Border Security Force troopers run for cover as they flush out two Muslim militants holed up inside a residential house in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir state, on September 24. Few people braved anti-poll violence in Kashmir's main city to vote in a state election after the early morning gun battle.
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  • PAMPORE, KASHMIR - SEPT. 30: Kashmiri villagers harvest rice near Pampore, a town outside of  Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir September 30, 2002. Many Kashmiris living in this region where the third stage of the vote is to take place say they need to work in the fields rather than vote since this is the time of harvesting.  More than 500 people have been killed in election related violence since they were announced August 2.
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  • Money changers and life in the central market  in Kabul, Afghanistan August 5, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Patients at the orthopedic center set up by the International Committee for the Red Cross in Kabul, Afghanistan August 5, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Doctors and nurses attend patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Shafika Abbasi, 20, left, who was living in Burke, Va. for the last four years and a relative, Belquis Azizyar, right, visits her cousin Nafisa Arifi after she gave birth to a baby girl  at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Patients at the Rabia Balkhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan August 4, 2002. There is a severe shortage of female doctors in Afghanistan making it difficult for women and children to get adequate health care. Infant mortality in Afghanistan in 2000 was 165 per 1,000. live births - one of the highest figures in the world, according to the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). More than one if four children die before age 5. The U.S. infant mortality rate is 7 per 1,000. Half Afghanistan's children suffer from malnutrition. (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • KABUL, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 4, 2002:   Afghans who were trained for the close protection team by Italian paratroopers working as part of the International Security and Assistance Force  in Afghanistan hold a ceremony marking their completion of the training August 4, 2002 in Kabul.(Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • KABUL, AFGHANISTAN, AUGUST 4, 2002:   Afghans who were trained for the close protection team by Italian paratroopers working as part of the International Security and Assistance Force  in Afghanistan hold a ceremony marking their completion of the training August 4, 2002 in Kabul.(Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans recent returnees live in the ruins of a bombed out building with no running water  or access to health care in central Kabul, Afghanistan August 3, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • The road from Bamiya to Kabul, Afghanistan August 2, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • The road from Bamiya to Kabul, Afghanistan August 2, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans harvest wheat in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, the site of the ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban August 1, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans harvest wheat in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, the site of the ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban August 1, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans harvest wheat in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, the site of the ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban August 1, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans harvest wheat in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, the site of the ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban August 1, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans harvest wheat in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, the site of the ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban August 1, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans harvest wheat in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, the site of the ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban August 1, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans harvest wheat in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, the site of the ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban August 1, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans harvest wheat in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, the site of the ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban August 1, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • Afghans harvest wheat in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, the site of the ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban August 1, 2002.  (Photo  by Ami Vitale)
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  • JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - FEBRUARY 27:An Orthodox Jewish boy slips on the ice as he watches  the funeral for a rabbi in Jerusalem, Israel February 27, 2003.  Thousands of people gathered to take part in the funeral procession.  (Ami Vitale/Getty Images).
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  • Villagers near the Pooch district in Jammu  go on with their daily activities after 10 armed militants who infiltrated from Pakistan were killed along the Line of Control between Pakistan and India Friday, November 2, 2001. The militants were allegedly crossing the border to fight for the jihad in Kashmir. (Getty Images/Ami Vitale)
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  • A Fulani from a village in the Casamance territory between the West African countries of Guinea Bissau and Senegal sits on an ancient tree durig a festival for peace.   Rebels in Senegal's southern Casamance [Cassamance] province have been waging a bloody independence campaign against the central government in Dakar since 1982. The Movement of Democratic Forces in the Casamance (MFDC) has long used Senegal's southern neighbor Guinea-Bissau as a launching pad for attacks inside Cassamance. Guinea-Bissau's former president, Joao Bernardo Viera, was accused of supplying the rebels with weapons until he was overthrown in a coup in May 1999.    (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • An isolated canoe makes its way across Srinagar's Dal Lake in the troubled state of Kashmir Sunday, November 18, 2001.  Kashmir's beauty is unmatched and once had a thriving tourism industry but because of the war, it has come to a virtual and complete halt.  The war in Kashmir has been going on since 1989 when militant organizations chose to fight for secession from India and now the war in Afghanistan  has made the region even more volatile . (Photo by Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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  • AZZARIYA, WEST BANK, MARCH 5: Nurses sing and dance to mentally disabled, autistic and physically handicapped Palestinians and others who have no family or have been abandoned March 5, 2003 in Arba'at Batei Hahemla (Four Houses of Mercy) in Azzariya, West Bank. It was founded in 1940 by the late Palestinian philanthropist Catherine Siksek and is one place in the occupied territories where dozens of Palestinians and some of society's weakest members find protection and care. Outside their is war, destruction, poverty and humiliation but inside it is a place of joy where none of the devastaton has been allowed to penetrate.  The doctors and nurses work grueling days for little pay and often spend 4 hours a day just to travel a few miles to get through Israeli checkpoints but it never deters them.  (Ami Vitale/Getty Images)
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