US Private Gideon of the 40th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Regiment, takes up defensive position by his Humvee vehicle during a recon patrol near the Afghan-Pakistan border, in Paktya Province, Afghanistan, on May 7, 2009. US President Barack Obama said on May 6 that USA's goal is to 'to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al Qaeda and its extremist allies in Pakistan and Afghanistan... and to achieve that goal we must deny them the space to threaten the Pakistani, Afghan, or American people.' Photo by Simon Lim/Pictobank
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