Afghanistan daily life

Afghan protesters shout slogans during a protest in Kabul December 30, 2009. Hundreds of Afghans joined street rallies on Wednesday to protest against the killing of 10 civilians, most of them teenage students, in a military raid by foreign forces over the weekend. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)

Afghan men play soccer in an old swimming pool on the hill in Kabul December 30, 2009. REUTERS/Marko Djurica (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY SPORT)

Afghan Shiites flagellate themselves during Ashoura in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009, as the Siite Muslims commemorate the seventh century death of Imam Hussein during the Battle of Karbala, Iraq. (AP Photo/Farzana Wahidy)

Chefs cook at a kitchen of a five-star hotel in Herat December 15, 2009. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: FOOD TRAVEL)

A victim of a blast is carried away from the site in Kabul December 15, 2009. A large explosion rocked Kabul's main diplomatic and government residential district on Tuesday morning as President Hamid Karzai was expected to attend an anti-corruption conference in the Afghan capital. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST IMAGES OF THE DAY)

An Afghan boy watches television at a television and satellite shopping centre in Herat December 14, 2009. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: BUSINESS)

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - DECEMBER 11: Afghan spectators watch as two fighting dogs attack each other during the weekly dog fights on December 11, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dogfighting is facing a resurgence after it was banned under the Taliban for being un-Islamic. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

** FOR STORY SLUGGED POLICE PUSH BY SEBASTIAN ABBOT ** In this picture taken Monday, Dec. 7, 2009, Afghan National Police trainees with the United States Marines police mentoring program learn how to search a suspect during a lesson in Khan Neshin, in the volatile Helmand province of southern Afghanistan. The experience in Khan Neshin highlights the difficult task facing coalition partners as they work with the Afghan government to dramatically ramp up a police force known for its corruption, drug use, and lack of training. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

An Afghan woman walks past mannequins displaying women's clothing for sale, along a street in Kabul December 9, 2009. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani (AFGHANISTAN SOCIETY)

People buy bananas on the street at the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009. President Barack Obama, in a defining moment of his presidency, announced he would deepen the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, sending 30,000 more troops to fight the Taliban despite Americans' growing pessimism about the war. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - DECEMBER 10: A landmine victim walks under the supervision of a doctor at the International Red Cross Orthopedic (ICRC) rehabilitation center on December 10, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The ICRC rehabilitation center works to educate and rehabilitate landmine victims and those with limb related deformities back into society and employment. The UN mine information network estimates there are approximately 62 people killed or injured by mines each month in the country. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

United States Marine LCpl. Grayson Barnette of Md. from the 2nd MEB, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion gives candy to Afghan children during a patrol in Khan Neshin, in the volatile Helmand province of southern Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

Villagers shout anti-American and anti-Afghan government slogans during a funeral for people killed in a pre-dawn NATO operation, in Mehtar Lam, Afghanistan, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of Kabul, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. The Afghan government said NATO forces killed six civilians during a pre-dawn operation Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan. NATO disputed the allegation saying only militants died. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Young Afghan villagers walk to a clinic set up by Afghan national army and U.S. forces in Khowst province December 8, 2009. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra (AFGHANISTAN CONFLICT MILITARY)

A woman prays over a tomb at the Sakhi cemetery in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

An Afghan man carries a sack of coal at a World Food Programme (WFP) distribution site for winter supplies in Kabul December 1, 2009. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani (AFGHANISTAN SOCIETY)

U.S Army soldier 1st Lt Steppe Dwayne (2nd R) of the Task Force Yukon combat team attends a meeting with the district deputy governor in the town of Dwamanda in Khowst province December 5, 2009. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra(AFGHANISTAN CONFLICT MILITARY)

An Afghan girl is given medication from US Navy medical personnel that are part of the United States Marines' 2nd MEB, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, at a free clinic in Khan Neshin in the volatile province of Helmand, southern Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. The clinic provides medication and medical treatment for the local population. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

REFILE - ADDING DROPPED WORD Bakers knead bread dough outside FOB Clark in Khowst province December 6, 2009. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra(AFGHANISTAN FOOD SOCIETY)

Afghan boy Naimat Ullah, 6, watches his father building concrete blast walls in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. With security worsening and thousands of international troops being additionally expected by next year, business is going up for concrete blast walls. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - NOVEMBER 23: An Afghan woman tries to keep warm while waiting in line at a CARE food distribution aimed at widows November 23, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The CARE monthly food rations for the needy gives the women 50 kilograms of wheat, three liters of cooking oil, one kilogram of salt and beans. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)

Afghan members of a demining squad walk with their demining dogs down a mountain after a mine clearing operation outside the village of Tangi Saidan in this November 15, 2009 file photo. Throughout Afghanistan's tumultuous history, warring factions have changed and frontlines have shifted, leaving the country littered with landmines and little mapping system to locate them. To match feature AFGHANISTAN-LANDMINES/ REUTERS/Jerry Lampen/Files (AFGHANISTAN ANIMALS CONFLICT MILITARY SOCIETY)

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - NOVEMBER 20: Afghan actress Trena Amiri, 22, laughs with actor Ghafar Zalam at a restaurant as an Afghan familiy eats lunch, during the filming of the soap opera \"Love and Old Age\" November 20, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Trena has been acting for two years and gets paid from $50 up to $300 depending on whether it's a TV show or movie production. Trena is divorced and rarely sees her three children since her ex-husband has full custody, according to conservative Afghan laws. She keeps her acting life a secret from her part-time nursing job, as many are critical of her lifestyle. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

An Afghan youth sits near his sheep as he waits for customers at a market in Jalalabad the provincial capital of Nangarhar province east of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. Muslims around the world will celebrate Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice, to mark the end of the haj by slaughtering sheep, goats, cows and camels to commemorate Prophet Abraham's readiness to sacrifice his son Ismail on God's command. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan farmers work on a poppy field in the Grishk district of Helmand province in this April 18, 2009 file photo. Once known as the bread basket of Afghanistan, the lush green irrigated fields of Helmand are the world's single largest source of opium. To match feature AFGHANISTAN-OPIUM/ REUTERS/Abdul Qodus/Files (AFGHANISTAN SOCIETY)

BAMIYAN, AFGHANISTAN - SEPTEMBER 7: Anifa, 12, prays inside her cave dwelling where she lives with her family, September 7, 2009 in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. Many of the impoverished families living in the caves say they are too poor to live anywhere else even though the government insists that they are doing damage to an the area, near the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan, which is a rare archaeological site. All are refugees who fled areas of fighting during the Taliban era, and have now returned from the other parts of Afghanistan. The cave dwellers are all Hazara, who are religiously and ethnically distinct and survivors of intense persecution by the Taliban. The Bamiyan region is the stronghold of the Hezb-i-Whadat party, the principal faction representing the Shia Muslims of the central area of Afghanistan. (Photo Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

An Afghan man pumps water from a well in the old town of Kabul, Afghanistan,Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

An U.S. Army soldier takes photos of the eyes of an Afghan man at a checkpoint near of the Forward Operating Base (FOB) Tillman November 24, 2009. REUTERS/Bruno Domingos (AFGHANISTAN SOCIETY MILITARY)

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - OCTOBER 21: Mir Mohammed, an Afghan policeman rests in his wheelchair suffering from an infected amputated leg at the ANA Military hospital October 21, 2009 Kabul, Afghanistan. Mir was injured 3 months ago in Zabul when the police truck he was riding in hit an IED. The military hospital gives medical care to all the Afghan military and police as well as civilians. The Afghan National Army are extremely vulnerable to Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) attacks on the front line, many have been attacked while traveling along the roads in Helmand and surrounding towns in the south. The Taliban are now staging suicide attacks and roadside IED blasts in densely populated areas to create a bigger impact as more of Afghan's war wounded hit the headlines. A recent U.N. report has described 2009 as the deadliest year in terms of civilian casualties in Afghanistan ever since the start of the U.S.-led war against Taliban in the country. In a recent report presented to the Pentagon, Gen. Sta

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - OCTOBER 08: Rescue workers recover a body at the scene of a suicide bombing on October 8, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The explosion left 12 people dead and over 60 injured during what local authorities say was a targeted attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul. (Photo by David Goldman/Getty Images)

A child uses a wheel barrow to carry jugs of water near the town of Pul-i-alam, Logar province, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)