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Kunar provincial governor Fazullah Wahidi, center, U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jay Burgess, Provincial Reconstruction Team-Kunar senior engineer, left, based at Camp Wright in Asadabad, Afghanistan, Brig. Gen. Khallullah Ziayee, Kunar Provincial chief of police, right, and village elders all took part in cutting the ribbon at a school in Loy Bachi, Afghanistan, Sept. 28, 2009.

RIBBON CUTTING

Kunar provincial governor Fazullah Wahidi, center, U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jay Burgess, Provincial Reconstruction Team-Kunar senior engineer, left, based at Camp Wright in Asadabad, Afghanistan, Brig. Gen. Khallullah Ziayee, Kunar Provincial chief of police, right, and village elders all took part in cutting the ribbon at a school in Loy Bachi, Afghanistan, Sept. 28, 2009.

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