In this Aug. 25, 2010 photo, a U.S. soldiers on patrol in Zhari district, northeast of Kandahar city, southern Afghanistan. Since the war began, the countryside surrounding Kandahar has been marked as the heartland of the Taliban, the insurgents’ springboard to retake all of Afghanistan. Now, as U.S. and allied forces wrestle with diehard insurgents on booby-trapped fields and roads, the battle for Kandahar is being described as the decisive campaign, a linchpin of American strategy to win the nine-year-old conflict. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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