FILE - Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's interim prime minister, right, meets with tribal leaders from the five southern Afghan states in the house where Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar used to live in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 10, 2001. The former Soviet Union marched into Afghanistan on Christmas Eve, 1979, claiming it was invited by the new Afghan communist leader, Babrak Karmal, setting the country on a path of 40 years of seemingly endless wars and conflict. After the Soviets left in humiliation, America was the next great power to wade in. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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