Caption: Abdul Qahar, an interpreter with Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, finds one of the few shaded spots during Operation Big Wave in Khanagawr, Afghanistan, Aug. 18, 2010. During the operation the men spent two days in direct sunlight with temperatures reaching more than 120 degrees. The operation was conducted to disrupt the enemy from using supply lines to bring weapons and fighters into Nawa. (U.S. Marine Corps/Sgt. Mark Fayloga)
Caption: The tomb of Sultan Mohammed Telai, which was destroyed during the Afghan civil war in 1990's is lit by setting sun on Friday, July 23, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
Caption: Items for sale in the Nader Pashtun Market in Kabul, Afghanistan, where virtually everything comes from China. While the headlines focus on the U.S.-led war against the Taliban, China's spreading global footprint has become highly visible in Afghanistan, and the U.S. is said to welcome it. Photo taken on June 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
Caption: U.S. Marines carry a comrade wounded by an improvised explosive device (IED) to a waiting medevac helicopter, near the town of Marjah in Helmand Province on August 21, 2010. (REUTERS/Bob Strong)
Caption: U.S. Army soldiers with Task Force Thor Route Clearance Patrol from 23rd Engineering Company, Airborne detonate an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) that they discovered during a day-long route clearance mission July 7, 2010 near Khakriz, Afghanistan. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Caption: A medevac UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter from the 101st Airborne division, Task Force Destiny, is reflected in the glasses of a ground staff member during a refueling operation at Kandahar Air Field (KAF) in Kandahar province, August 29, 2010. (REUTERS/Oleg Popov)
Caption: An Afghan man grieves hanging onto the coffin of his brother inside a vehicle in the outskirts of Herat on August 30, 2010. On August 29, police found the bodies of five members of a campaign team for female candidate Fawzya Galani, days after 10 of them were abducted by the Taliban, officials said. (Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images)
Caption: U.S. Army soldiers from Bravo Company 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, participate in a joint patrol with Afghan Army soldiers near Forward Operating Base Howz-e-Madad, in Zhari district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Caption: An unidentified member of the NATO-led ISAF keeps watch during a change-of-command ceremony at the ISAF headquarters in Kabul July 4, 2010. (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood)
Caption: An Afghan girl reads the holy Quran, as a woman, right, offers prayers at a mosque during the month of Ramadan in Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, Aug 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
Caption: Afghan girls pose for their mother at Qargha lake just outside Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
Caption:Afghan families, hit by the floods which have devastated Pakistan, work to rid their homes of mud, on August 7, 2010 in the south of Kabul, Afghanistan. More than 500 families have been forced to evacuate their homes due to flooding, which has originated from the country's border with Pakistan. (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)
Caption: A US soldier of Charlie Company 2-508 PIR Second Platoon, Second BTC, 101st ABN Div. (Air Assault) attaches a yellow flower to his helmet during a joint patrol with National Security Forces in the Arghandab Valley of Kandahar province on August 3, 2010. (YURI CORTEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
Caption: US soldiers of HHC 2-508 PIR 4 BTC, 82nd Airborne sleep at the heliport as they wait for helicopter transport to fly back home from the volatile and dangerous Kandahar's province of Arghandab Valley on August 15, 2010. (YURI CORTEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
Caption: Soldiers from 1st Battalion the Royal Gurkha Rifles patrol through a village in Nahr e Saraj, Helmand on June 30, 2010. (BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images)
Caption: A U.S. Navy corpsman stands in a pool of blood while tending to a solider that was wounded by an IED blast at the Kandahar Role 3 Hospital July 12, 2010 at Kandahar Air Field in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The hospital, one of the most advanced in the country, recently moved into a modern, custom-built fortified building on the sprawling airbase that serves as the nerve center for the NATO military effort in southwestern Afghanistan. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Caption: US Soldiers of Bravo Company 2/508th PIR, 4th BTC, 82 Airborne patrol with Afghan National Army soldiers in Kukaran in Kandahar province on August 6, 2010. (YURI CORTEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
Caption: A soldier with an injured ankle from the US Army's 1-320 Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division is assisted past his burning M-ATV armored vehicle after it struck an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) on a road near Combat Outpost Nolen in the Arghandab Valley in this picture taken July 23, 2010. None of the four soldiers in the vehicle were seriously injured in the explosion. (REUTERS/Bob Strong)
Caption: Australian soldiers carry a coffin of Pvt. Nathan Bewes at their base in Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on July 12, 2010. Bewes died in an improvised explosive device blast in Uruzgan. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
Caption: Major Josh Bowman (left), Commander of A Company 1st Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles, talks to local residents at their compound during Operation Kapcha Door in Nahr e Saraj, in Helmand, on June 26, 2010. (BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images)
Major Bowman was killed by a rogue Afghan soldier just two weeks after this picture was taken, shot while he slept.
Caption: Afghan youths escape increasing summer temperatures by visiting the Qarga reservoir on July 9, 2010 in a suburb of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)
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