An Afghan fruit seller waits for customers under a billboard of presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah in Kabul, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. Afghans will go to the polls in presidential elections Thursday.
Election workers carry ballot boxes to a polling station at the Friday Mosque in Herat, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. Afghans will head to the polls on Aug. 20 to elect a new president.
Election workers gather polling materials at the Friday Mosque in Herat, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. Afghans will head to the polls on Aug. 20 to elect the new president.
Afghans have breakfast along a wall covered with election campaign posters in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009, on the eve of the presidential elections.
Afghan President and incumbent in presidential elections Hamid Karzai stands during Independence Day celebrations at the Defence Ministry compound in Kabul, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. Afghans will go to the polls to vote for a new president Thursday.
An Afghan policeman stands guard in front of presidential election posters on the street in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. Later, gunfire and explosions reverberated through the heart of the Afghan capital Wednesday, on the eve of the presidential election, after three militants with AK-47s rifles and hand grenades overran a bank. Police stormed the building and killed the three insurgents, officials said.
Afghan police guard a security checkpoint made from a pile of rocks in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009, on the eve of the presidential elections.
A torn and defaced poster of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who is also a presidential candidate in the upcoming presidential election is seen in Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. Afghans are on the eve of going to the polls to elect a new president for the second time in the country's history.
A donkey is loaded with election supplies to carry to a rural polling station, in Sighawar in Afghanistan's mountainous Panjshir Province, about 70 miles north of Kabul, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. Afghans will head to the polls on Aug. 20 to elect the new president for the second time in the country's history.
Afghan women prepare supplies at a polling station for election day in Mazar-I-Sharif, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. Afghans will head to the polls on Aug. 20 to elect a new president.
An Afghan soldier opens the door of their temporary station at a checkpoint, covered with the posters of candidates, in city of Kandahar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan Wednesday, Aug 19, 2009. Afghans are on the eve of going to the polls to elect a new president for the second time in the country's history.
An Afghan police officer stands in front of the gate of a polling station in Kandahar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug 19, 2009. Afghans are on the eve of going to the polls to elect a new president for the second time in the country's history.
A burqa-clad woman walks past a poster of Afghan President Hamid Karzai pasted on the back of a vehicle in Herat, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009. Afghans will head to the polls on Aug. 20 to elect the new president.
Presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah is seen inside a shop selling dried fruits in Herat, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009. Afghans will head to the polls on Aug. 20 to elect the new president.
An Afghan woman passes by an electoral poster of Presidential candidate and former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009. Afghans will head to the polls on Aug. 20 to elect new president.
Dahaneh resident Haji Mohammed Yunos puts his thumbprint on a registration as he registers to vote with International Election Committee officials Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009, in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Until seven days ago, when U.S. Marines and the Afghan National Army staged an offensive in the town against the Taliban, residents of Dahaneh had not been able to register.
British ISAF soldiers gather evidence next to destroyed cars at the scene of a suicide car bomb attack on the outskirts of Kabul,Tuesday Aug. 18, 2009. A Taliban suicide bomber attacked a NATO convoy, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 50, officials said, just days before the presidential election that the militant group has vowed to disrupt.
An Afghan man rides his bicycle as he passes by electoral posters of presidential and provincial candidates, in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009. Afghans will head to the polls on Aug. 20 to elect new president.
Staff Sgt. Cody Anderson, 24, center, of Alpena, Mich., of the U.S. Army's 1st Platoon, Apache Company, 2nd Battalion 87th Infantry Regiment, part of the 3rd Combat Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, questions village elders about notices posted by the Taliban threatening anyone who votes in the Aug. 20 presidential elections in the village of Juy Zurin in Afghanistan's Wardak Province, Monday, Aug. 17, 2009.
Afghans string a line of election posters of presidential candidate and former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai inside a tent during an election campaign rally in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 17, 2009. Afghans will head to the polls on Aug. 20 to elect a new president for the second time in the country's history.