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Afghan war enters 12th year

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In this Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 photo, Wahidullah, 32, whose spine was pierced by a bullet during the civil war that left him crippled, poses for a photograph in front of Darul Aman Palace which was damaged during the civil war in Kabul, Afghanistan. Wahidullah was a teenager when he fought in west Kabul during the civil war.

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In this Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012 photo, Fahim Dashti, executive of the National Journalists' Union, poses with a photograph of his wartime leader Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul Afghanistan. Dashti was with Massoud, the charismatic Tajik leader who commanded the Northern Alliance, when he was fatally wounded by two terrorists posing as journalists two days before the Sept. 11 attacks.

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In this Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012 photo, Gen. Majid Rouzi, a former civil war commander who now is an adviser to the Ministry of Interior, poses with his favorite civil war photograph which shows Gen. Rouzi with one of the best known Afghan military leaders, Ahmad Shah Massoud, in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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In this Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012 photo, Shah Ker, 29, a car mechanic, poses in the shop he inherited from his father Ramdil Shah who was killed during the Afghan civil war in 1993 in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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Noorullah Hamidi who owns a women's dress shop, poses with a photograph of his brother Hafizullha, who was killed near the shop while trying to flee street fighting during the civil war in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012.

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Nobody wants a repeat of the bloody ethnic fighting that followed the Soviet exit from Afghanistan in the 1990s. Yet as the Afghan war began its 12th year on Sunday, fears loom that the country will again fracture along ethnic lines once international combat forces leave by the end of 2014. “Unfortunately in Afghanistan, we do not have any political unity,” said Gen. Sayed Hussain Anwari, a former governor of Kabul and Herat provinces who led fighters during the civil war.
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    • In this Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 photo, Wahidullah, 32, whose spine was pierced by a bullet during the civil war that left him crippled, poses for a photograph in front of Darul Aman Palace which was damaged during the civil war in Kabul, Afghanistan. Wahidullah was a teenager when he fought in west Kabul during the civil war.
    • In this Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012 photo, Fahim Dashti, executive of the National Journalists’ Union, poses with a photograph of his wartime leader Ahmad Shah Massoud in Kabul Afghanistan. Dashti was with Massoud, the charismatic Tajik leader who commanded the Northern Alliance, when he was fatally wounded by two terrorists posing as journalists two days before the Sept. 11 attacks.
    • In this Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012 photo, Gen. Majid Rouzi, a former civil war commander who now is an adviser to the Ministry of Interior, poses with his favorite civil war photograph which shows Gen. Rouzi with one of the best known Afghan military leaders, Ahmad Shah Massoud, in Kabul, Afghanistan.
    • In this Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012 photo, Shah Ker, 29, a car mechanic, poses in the shop he inherited from his father Ramdil Shah who was killed during the Afghan civil war in 1993 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
    • Noorullah Hamidi who owns a women’s dress shop, poses with a photograph of his brother Hafizullha, who was killed near the shop while trying to flee street fighting during the civil war in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012.
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