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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's president on Thursday welcomed U.S. plans to withdraw 33,000 troops over the next year as a chance to show his nation can defend itself, but many of his countrymen worried it would bring more violence to a country that's known decades of war.
President Hamid Karzai, who has warned that the U.S. risks becoming occupiers after nearly 10 years of war, called the plan "a good measure" and asserted that the Afghan youth would guard their nation against Taliban and other insurgents who have just begun a new offensive.See the full content of this document
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Afghans Anxious About U.S. Withdrawal Plans
Outside the capital, in the Taliban heartland of the south and in the ...
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