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A Lithuanian soldier provides security for members of a Lithuanian-led provincial reconstruction team, the governor of Ghor province and Afghanistan forces during a patrol in the remote Pasaband district in Afghanistan's Gohr province, Feb. 5, 2011.

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A Lithuanian soldier provides security for members of a Lithuanian-led provincial reconstruction team, the governor of Ghor province and Afghanistan forces during a patrol in the remote Pasaband district in Afghanistan's Gohr province, Feb. 5, 2011.

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