This undated Department of Defense handout shows the Kandahar surface-to-air missIle site in Afghanistan before it was attacked. U.S. airstrikes are targeting leaders of the al-Qaida terrorist network and the Taliban government that is harboring them in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday. (AP Photo/Defense Department)

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This undated Department of Defense handout shows the Kandahar surface-to-air missile site in Afghanistan after it was attacked. U.S. airstrikes are targeting leaders of the al-Qaida terrorist network and the Taliban government that is harboring them in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday. (AP Photo/Defense Department)

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Explosions from U.S. bombs rise over the Taliban positions in the Qala-Cata mountains, northern Afghanistan, in this Nov. 7, 2001 photo. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Air Force Special Tactics Operator Master Sgt. Bart Decker travels by horseback in Afghanistan in this Nov. 21, 2001 photo. Decker, 39, of McHenry, Ill., spent much of the next 12 days in a wooden saddle as the juxtaposition of modern and ancient warfare continued with U.S. Air Force jets bombing Taliban and Al-Qaida forces and Northern Alliance troops mounting cavalry charges. Military forces deployed in the war against Iraq have called up dolphins, dogs, horses and even chickens to fight in the war against the Saddam Hussein regime. (AP Photo/USAF,)

** FILE **A man Identified as "David, a U.S. military adviser" holds a Kalashnikov rifle during a prison uprising in a Northern Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan in this Nov. 25, 2001 file photo. The Pentagon and the CIA have objected to recommendations of the Sept. 11 Commission that would centralize paramilitary operations. (AP Photo/ARD, File)

In this image made from video from German television, German TV journalist Arnim Stauth, left, talks to a man putting a handgun away who was identified by the source as "David, a U.S. military adviser" during an uprising at a northern alliance prison in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2001. Northern alliance troops and captured loyalists of Osama bin Laden fought a second day of pitched battles in the mud-walled fortress Monday, with the prisoners raining mortar fire and rocket-propelled grenades on their former captors. (AP Photo/ARD)

U.S. Marines of the 15th MEU (Marine Expeditionary Unit) dig forward positions nearby the marine forward base in southern Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 30, 2001. This group of infantry Marines are with Alpha Company and are the outermost line of defense set up for the Marine base. (AP Photo/ Jim Hollander/Pool)

U.S. Marines of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit carry SMAWs, Shoulder Launched Multi-Purpose Assault Weapons, and lighter weapons, as they leave the Marine forward camp in southern Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2001, to take up positions on the perimeter of the base. The base is within striking distance of the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar. (AP Photo/Jim Hollander/Pool)

U.S. special forces troops survey the terrain at the airport near Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2001. Special forces troops worked Thursday to prepare the airport for humanitarian aid flights. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

U.S. special forces troops survey the area at the airport near Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2001. Special forces troops worked Thursday to prepare the airport for humanitarian aid flights. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

U.S. special forces troops stand together at the airport near Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2001. Special forces troops worked, Thursday, to prepare the airport for humanitarian aid flights. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

U.S. special forces troops use remote control to detonate explosives at the airport near Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2001. U.S. special forces cleared unexploded ammunition Thursday from around Mazar-e-Sharif's main airport, working to open the way for humanitarian aid flights. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

U.S. Marine Michael Sean Leo, left, from Diamondbar, Calif., and Lance Cpl. Ajmal Achekzai from Salt Lake City, Utah, raise the U.S. flag on the U.S. Marine forward base in southern Afghanistan, early Thursday, Nov. 29, 2001. The base is within striking distance of the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar. Achekzai was born in Afghanistan and left the country after the Soviet invasion. He is working with the command on the base as a Farsi and Pashto translator. He said "I'm coming back home... I get chills putting this flag up." (AP Photo/Jim Hollander, POOL)

A Northern alliance fighter kicks a body as he walks across the yard covered with bodies of pro-Taliban forces in a fortress prison near Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2001. Several hundred pro-Taliban prisoners captured part of the fortress prison Sunday, and were defeated in three days of fighting which involved British and U.S. special forces. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

A Russian paramilitary walks past a compound full of Russian trucks in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2001. Twelve years after Soviet fighters were forced to withdraw in humiliation, armed Russian troops are back in Afghanistan, raising curiosity and some anxiety in the capital over the role international peacekeepers may play. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)

U.S. military personel work in the Joint Operations Center in the U.S. Central Command Building on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2001 at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla. All four branches of the service work on coordinating U.S. military efforts in Afgahanistan from this room. U.S. forces in Afghanistan are searching more than 40 laboratories and other facilities suspected of conducting secret work on chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, the American commander of the war said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Scott Audette)

A northern alliance fighter kicks a body as he walks over the yard covered with bodies of pro-Taliban forces in a fortress near Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2001. Several hundred pro-Taliban prisoners captured part of the fortress prison, Sunday, and were defeated in three days of fighting which involved British and U.S. special forces. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Northern alliance fighters walk over a yard covered with bodies of pro-Taliban forces in a fortress prison near Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2001. Several hundred pro-Taliban prisoners captured part of the fortress prison Sunday, then were defeated in three days of fighting which involved British and U.S. special forces. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

ADDS I.D. OF FRANKS--Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, center, polls U.S. military personel as to which branch of the Armed Forces they belong outside the U.S. Central Command building on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2001 at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla. Rumsfeld spoke to reporters as he flew to the Tampa headquarters of the Central Command, the unit responsible for the region of the world that includes Afghanistan. Gen. Tommy R. Franks, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Central Command, stands at left center.(AP Photo/Scott Audette)

Northern alliance fighters look at their tank destroyed when a U.S. jet mistakenly struck it during fighting against pro-Taliban forces in a fortress prison near Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2001. Northern alliance fighters helped by U.S. special forces claimed Tuesday to have quashed an uprising by captured Taliban after a third day of fierce fighting around the fortress prison. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Identity pictures of detainies are scattered on the ground of a Kuduz, Afghanistan jail, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2001, one day after the city fell from Taliban control to the hands of northern alliance forces. All prisoners detained in the jail were released by northern alliance forces. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

U.S. Marine Cpl. Jason Hooker, lower right, from Crestview, Fla., with his head wrapped in a tee-shirt, rests against his battle pack on the upper deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu in the northern Arabian Sea Sunday Nov. 25, 2001, several hours before the launch of the assault against a secret airstrip in southern Afganistan. These Marines from Charlie 1/1 of the 15th MEU (Marine Expeditionary Unit) are the first to go into Afghanistan in a helicopter born assault to establish a significant military prescence on the ground. (AP Photo/Jim Hollander, Pool)

Northern alliance soldiers drag a Taliban fighter in the town of Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, Monday Nov. 26 2001. The fighter was later taken away by truck and his fate is unknown. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

U.S. special operation troops greet the local northern alliance commander while his soldiers fight pro-Taliban forces at a fortress near Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 26, 2001. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

A group of northern alliance troops make their way by the fortress walls during fighting with pro-Taliban forces in the fortress near Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 26, 2001. Several hundred prisoners, mostly foreign fighters fighting on the Taliban side captured part of the mud-walled fortress where hundreds of their comrades were killed a day earlier, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Northern alliance tanks roll into Khanabad, northern Afghanistan, Sunday Nov. 25 2001. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Taliban commander Hanifi, second left, chief of security of the Afghan border post in Torkham, uses a satellite phone as AP correspondent Amir Shah, left, and Athens-based AP photographer Dimitri Messinis, second right, look on in Torkham, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2001. At right is AP bureau chief in Pakistan Kathy Gannon, who is covered with a shawl to enable her to see her computer screen. Hanifi was using the AP satellite phone to call the Taliban Information Ministry in Kabul to verify information regarding approval for journalist visas allowing Gannon and Messinis to work in in Kabul. (AP Photo/Riaz Kham)

Australian cameraman Harry Burton, working for Reuters Television, puts on protective gear before boarding a U.S. Marines helicopter in Batugede, East Timor, in this Nov. 23, 1999 photo. Burton was among four international journalists missing Monday, Nov. 19, 2001, after they were pulled from their car by gunmen along a road between the eastern city of Jalalabad and the capital, Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Afghans Seiied Vali-Shah, left, and Hayattollah, both workers clearing debris at Herat airport, Afghanistan talk beside the wreckage of a Russian made MiG-17 Sunday Nov.18, 2001. Herat airport is littered with the carcasses of more than 20 Russian-made fighters that were destroyed in a U.S. airstrike in mid-October. (AP Photo/ Hasan Sarbakhshian)