This Nov. 25, 2009 photo shows a woman wearing a traditional burqa passing by a school, as U.S. army troops from the 3rd Squadron, 71st Cavalry talk to school officials in the village of Jowgi, in Logar province, Afghanistan ...

A soldier from the Able Troop 3-71 Cavalry Squadron walks with his nunchuks in his back pocket while patrolling in the village of Hawas Kheyl, Baraki Barak district, Logar province, Afghanistan Wednesday Nov. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Charles M. Babington, foreground, leader of the 1st Platoon, Able Troop 3-71 Cavalry Squadron, left, talks to a local school official at the village of Baraki Rajn, Baraki Barak district, Logar province, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Nov ...

Former Congressman Don Ritter attends the news conference of Geologist James Yeager, former Advisor to the Ministry of Mines in Afghanistan, to release his report on the Aynak Copper Tender in Logar Province, held at the National Press Club Washington ...