Stephen Harper visits Afghanistan

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  Prime Minister Stephen Harper reacts to the wave of heat as he arrives to the Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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  Prime Minister Stephen Harper looks out from a bunker as he visit a forward operating base in the district of Sperwan Ghar, Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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  Prime Minister Stephen Harper, left, stands with Tim Martin, Representative of Canada in Kandahar, as they look over a wheat field at Tarnack Farms in Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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  Prime Minister Stephen Harper talks with local Afghan farmers at the edge of a wheat field at Tarnack Farms in Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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  Prime Minister Stephen Harper walks through a wheat field at Tarnack Farms in Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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  Prime Minister Stephen Harper visits a forward operating base in the district of Sperwan Ghar, Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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  Prime Minister Stephen Harper, middle, Chief of the Defence Staff Walter Natynczyk, right, and Minister of Defence Peter MacKay visit a forward operating base in the district of Sperwan Ghar, Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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  Prime Minister Stephen Harper, left, and Minister of Defence Peter MacKay, right, talk with General Dean Milner as they sit in a bunker during a visit to a forward operating base in the district of Sperwan Ghar, Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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  Prime Minister Stephen Harper, left, and Minister of Defence Peter MacKay look out from a bunker as the visit a forward operating base in the district of Sperwan Ghar, Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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  Prime Minister Stephen Harper, left, and Minister of Defence Peter MacKay look out from a bunker as the visit a forward operating base in the district of Sperwan Ghar, Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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  Prime Minister Stephen Harper, right, serves lunch to Cpt. Francesca Scorsone of Toronto as he visits a forward operating base in the district of Sperwan Ghar, Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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  Prime Minister Stephen Harper shakes hands with soldiers as he visits a forward operating base in the district of Sperwan Ghar, Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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  Prime Minister Stephen Harper shakes hands with soldiers as he visits a forward operating base in the district of Sperwan Ghar, Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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  Canadian soldiers and civilians watch as Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivers a speech at New Canada House at Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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  Canadian soldiers and civilian watch as Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivers a speech at New Canada House at Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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  Minister of Defence Peter MacKay delivers a speech to introduce Prime Minister Stephen Harper as they visit Canadian soldiers and civilians at New Canada House at Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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  Canadian soldiers a civilian watch on as Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivers a speech at New Canada House at Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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  Canadian soldiers and a civilian watch on as Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivers a speech at New Canada House at Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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  Prime Minister Stephen Harper lays a wreath during a ceremony at Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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  Prime Minister Stephen Harper, middle, talks to media as he is flanked by Chief of the Defence Staff Walter Natynczyk, right, and Minister of Defence Peter MacKay, left, after delivering a speech to Canadian soldiers an civilian at New Canada House at Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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  A couple of Canadian soldiers wait for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to deliver a speech at New Canada House at Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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  Calgary Flames' Jerome Iginla poses with Canadian soldiers as he takes part in a BBQ with Canadian soldiers an civilian at New Canada House at Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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  Calgary Flames' Jerome Iginla signs an autograph for Cpl. Bernie Lanteigne, of Montreal, as he takes part in a BBQ with Canadian soldiers an civilian at New Canada House at Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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  Canadian Women's Olympic gold medal hockey player Jayna Hefford hands out t-shirts to Canadian troops as she takes part in a BBQ with Canadian soldiers an civilian at New Canada House at Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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  Two Canadian soldiers wait for a Chinook helicopter to land as Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper visits Tarnack Farms in Afghanistan on Monday, May 30, 2011.
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