First Lt. Mark Morrison with Charlie Co. 1st Battalion 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division speaks with reluctant villagers in an abandoned  compound near his company's position - Combat Outpost JFM - in Zhari District, Kandahar, Afghanistan on January 22, 2010. The violently contested district sits astride the strategically Highway 1 ringroad between Kandahar and Lashkar Gah and is seen by some as the birthplace of the Taliban movement.