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Panetta: US to end combat in Afghanistan next year
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Feb 01, 2012 04:03pm |
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| Category | Announcement |
| Author | ROBERT BURNS |
| News Date | Wednesday, February 1, 2012 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT — U.S. and other international forces in Afghanistan aim to end their combat role next year and switch to training and advising Afghan forces through 2014, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday.
Panetta's remarks to reporters traveling with him to a NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels represented the Obama administration's most explicit portrayal of how the foreign military role in Afghanistan is expected to evolve from the current high-intensity fight against the Taliban to a support role with Afghans fully in the lead |
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