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Swimming pool
A young Afghan boy attempts to fly a kite in front of an unfinished Soviet-era swimming pool as sunsets in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009.
AP Photo/Altaf Qadri
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Afghan girl
A physically-disabled Afghan girl waits at the International Committee of the Red Cross orthopedic center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009. The center, that provides new limbs, wheelchairs and physical therapy for the disabled has registered 91,000 disabled since 1988 and about 80 percent of them are victims of war and conflict.
AP Photo/Altaf Qadri
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Swimming pool
A young Afghan boy attempts to fly a kite in front of an unfinished Soviet-era swimming pool as sunsets in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009.
AP Photo/Altaf Qadri
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Afghan boys
Afghan boys take bath under a pipe on a street in the city of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 7, 2009.
AP Photo/Rahmat Gul