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Soldiers from the Afghan National Army work with soldiers from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment from the 4th Brigade of the 10th Mountain Division, based in Fort Polk, Louisiana, during a large scale cordon and search mission outside Malek Din in Ghazni province of Afghanistan, early September 2006. Five years after being overthrown, the Taliban are back in force, plunging an Afghanistan into its worst violence and political turmoil since the opening shots of President Bush's war on terror. Photo by Tom Pennington/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/MCT/ABACAPRESS.COM