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April 4, 2014, 11:19 AM

APTOPIX Afghanistan Election An Afghan soldier, left, and a police man peek through a window as they queue with others to get their registration card on the last day of voter registration for the upcoming presidential elections outside a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. Elections will take place on April 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus
APTOPIX Afghanistan Daily Life An Afghan man watches his pigeons after feeding them in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, March 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus
APTOPIX Afghanistan Daily Life Afghan day laborer Zekrullah, 23, takes a break after preparing kilns to fire the bricks at a brick kiln factory on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov 7, 2013. In the last two years as US and NATO troops prepare to leave Afghanistan, brick makers say business has dropped off by almost half. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus
Pakistan Fearful Minorities This Tuesday, April 30, 2013 photo shows Pakistani Ahmedi praying in their mosque which displays the Arabic language sign saying 'in the name of god, people are praying' in Lahore, Pakistan. Ahmedis are reviled by mainstream Muslims as heretics because they believe a prophet followed Mohammed, defying the basic tenet of Islam that says Mohammed is the last prophet. Ahmedis worry the May 11, 2013 general elections will strengthen radical Islamists. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus
APTOPIX Afghanistan An Afghan man jumps from a diving board into a swimming pool on a hill overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, May 17, 2013. The swimming pool build by the Soviets more then 30 years ago has rarely been used caught instead in the middle of decades of war. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus
Obit Anja Niedringhaus Photo Gallery In this Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010 file photo made by Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, a Canadian soldier with the 1st RCR Battle Group, The Royal Canadian Regiment, chases a chicken seconds before he and his unit were attacked by grenades shot over the wall during a patrol in Salavat, southwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan.(AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)
AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File
Afghanistan US In this file picture taken Nov. 2, 2013 photo Afghan scrap collectors transport a load of U.S. destroyed equipment from the departing U.S. military inKandahar, southern Afghanistan. As the United States military packs up to leave Afghanistan, ending 13 years of war, it is looking to sell or dispose of billions of dollars in military hardware, including its sophisticated and highly specialized mine resistant vehicles, but finding a buyer is complicated in a region where relations between neighboring countries are mired in suspicion and outright hostility. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, file)
AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, file
APTOPIX Afghanistan An Afghan honor of guard stands next to pictures of late Afghan Vice President Field Marshal Mohammed Qasim Fahim outside his house in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, March 10, 2014. Afghanistan's influential Vice President Fahim, a leading commander in the alliance that fought the Taliban who was later accused with other warlords of targeting civilian areas during the country's civil war, died March 9, 2014. He was 57. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus
Afghanistan Karzai’s Legacy In this Nov. 26, 2013 file photo Afghan Army soldiers exercise under a picture of Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai at a training facility in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghans go to the polls April 5, 2014 to choose a new president, and that in itself may one day be considered Karzai's greatest achievement. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)
AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File
APTOPIX Afghanistan Election A child pulls a rope which keeps Afghan women in line queuing to get their registration card on the last day of voter registration for the upcoming presidential elections outside a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. Elections will take place on April 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus
APTOPIX Afghanistan Karzai’s Legacy An Afghan carpet seller holds up a framed carpet depicting Afghan President Hamid Karzai in his store in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 30, 2014. Afghans go to the polls April 5, 2014 to choose a new president, and that in itself may one day be considered Karzai's greatest achievement. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus
Obit Anja Niedringhaus Photo Gallery In this Thursday, June 9, 2011 file photo made by Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, a US Marine on his way to pick up food supplies after they were dropped off by small parachutes from a plane outside Forward Operating Base Edi in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan. Niedringhaus, 48, an internationally acclaimed German photographer, was killed and an AP reporter was wounded on Friday, April 4, 2014 when an Afghan policeman opened fire while they were sitting in their car in eastern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)
AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File
Obit Anja Niedringhaus Photo Gallery In this Feb. 2, 2005 file photo made by Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, a U.S. Marine cries during the memorial service for 31 killed U.S. servicemen at Camp Korean Village, near Rutbah, western Iraq. Niedringhaus, 48, an internationally acclaimed German photographer, was killed and AP reporter Kathy Gannon was wounded on Friday, April 4, 2014 when an Afghan policeman opened fire while they were sitting in their car in eastern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)
AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File
Obit Anja Niedringhaus Photo Gallery In this Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009 file photo made by Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, an Afghan man on his donkey follows a convoy of German ISAF soldiers patrolling Yaftal E Sofla, in the mountainous region of Feyzabad, east of Kunduz, Afghanistan. Niedringhaus, 48, an internationally acclaimed German photographer, was killed and an AP reporter was wounded on Friday, April 4, 2014 when an Afghan policeman opened fire while they were sitting in their car in eastern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)
AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File
APTOPIX Afghanistan Daily Life An Afghan boy flies his kite on a hill overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan, May 13, 2013. Banned during the Taliban regime, kite flying is once again the main recreational escape for Afghan boys and some men. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus
Obit Anja Niedringhaus Photo Gallery In this Sunday, March 26, 2006 file photo made by Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, Palestinians enjoy a ride at an amusement park outside Gaza City. Niedringhaus, 48, an internationally acclaimed German photographer, was killed and an AP reporter was wounded on Friday, April 4, 2014 when an Afghan policeman opened fire while they were sitting in their car in eastern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)
AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File
Obit Anja Niedringhaus Photo Gallery In this Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010 file photo made by Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, an Afghan boy on a donkey sticks his tongue out as Canadian soldiers with the 1st RCR Battle Group, The Royal Canadian Regiment, patrol in Salavat, southwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan. Minutes later the soldiers were attacked by grenades while leaving the village. Niedringhaus, 48, an internationally acclaimed German photographer, was killed and an AP reporter was wounded on Friday, April 4, 2014 when an Afghan policeman opened fire while they were sitting in their car in eastern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)
AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File
Afghanistan Security Forces Tested In this May 15, 2013 file photo, an Afghan National Police officer mans a checkpoint in the outskirts of Maidan Shahr, Wardak province, Afghanistan. Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Holding territory comes at a high price, coalition officials say that Afghan forces were at one point losing 100 men a week, mostly from roadside bombs. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)
AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File
Pakistan Malalas Friends In this Nov. 15, 2012 photo, a young girl reaches out to greet a Pakistani policeman securing the road outside Kainat Riaz's home in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan. Security stepped up after Kainat was wounded by the same Taliban gunman who shot Malala Yousufzai and 13-year-old Shazia Ramazan on Oct. 8 on their way home from school. Malala was shot for her outspoken insistence on girls' education. Shazia and Kainat are to return to school this week for the first time since the shooting. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus
In this Friday, Jan. 16, 2009 file photo made by Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, an Israeli soldier jumps off an armored vehicle carrying a flag of Israel's 60th anniversary as he celebrates with his unit their return from the Gaza Strip on the Israeli side of the border. Niedringhaus, 48, an internationally acclaimed German photographer, was killed and AP reporter Kathy Gannon was wounded on Friday, April 4, 2014 when an Afghan policeman opened fire while they were sitting in their car in eastern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)
AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File
Afghanistan Photographer Killed In this Thursday, April 2005 file photo, Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus poses for a photograph in Rome. Niedringhaus, 48, was killed and an AP reporter was wounded on Friday, April 4, 2014 when an Afghan policeman opened fire while they were sitting in their car in eastern Afghanistan. Niedringhaus an internationally acclaimed German photographer, was killed instantly, according to an AP Television freelancer who witnessed the shooting. Kathy Gannon, the reporter, was wounded twice and is receiving medical attention. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File
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