NATO to relieve U.S. in Afghanistan next year

[Rose Siding]

KABUL, Afghanistan - NATO-led international troops will be ready to assume responsibility for security across all of Afghanistan by the end of next year, freeing up thousands of American forces, a top NATO general said Thursday.

There has long been a plan to expand the 10,000-strong NATO force here into Afghanistan’s volatile south and east, but the timing for its completion has never been specific. Washington has long sought such a move, hoping to relieve many of its 17,600 front-line troops still here.
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It is not clear how many U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan after NATO takes command of security for all the country, ISAF spokesman Riccardo Cristoni said. But most American forces that do stay would be led by NATO, he said.

Cristoni said it was also not clear whether the United States would keep a separate force dedicated to hunting Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders believed to be hiding along the mountainous Afghan-Pakistani border.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8824789/

[Gyre]

1. So we haul ass after effin things up and the UN cleans up the mess.

Kofie Annon is a flaming idiot!

[meganmonkey]

3. it's NATO, not the UN

not sure what Kofi Annan has to do wtih it, unless I am missing something..

:shrug:

[oneighty]

2. Will American military be

under the command of foreign officers just like in the U.N. now and then?

if so; "Get U.S. out of the NATO." Will that be the new rallying cry of the right?

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[meganmonkey]

4. Curious to find out where the US troops who are leaving

will go next...

:scared:

[LiberalVoice]

5. 3 guesses...

First two dont count. :shrug:

[Massacure]

6. Probably Iraq.

A contract is a contract. The Pentagon only put so much fine print in it!