President Barack Obama announced the end of June in the third of his troops to withdraw U.S. troops based in Afghanistan by the summer of 2012, about 33 thousand in the country, leaving 65 000 troops and end the actual deployment of reinforcements ordered by the U.S. in late 2009.
The American army announced yesterday that about 650 American soldiers were deployed in the north west of the capital in the state of Parwan left Wednesday and will not be replaced with other units.
Said Michael won a spokesman for the U.S. Army «that these soldiers are the first elements to withdraw from Afghanistan without being replaced by other troops since the announcement of President».
It is supposed to leave about 800 U.S. troops home by the end of the month and ten thousands more by the end of the year, according to U.S. officials.
Has suspended the pace of deployment criticism in Washington, where Democrats want to withdraw larger numbers in what is considered hawkish Republicans, it too quickly at a time when Pentagon officials feel resentful because of taking their recommendations.
The troops that left Wednesday was that of the Iowa National Guard and other functions will exist in the country.
And leave the unit and other military trainers have been operating in Kabul later this month and will be assigned tasks to the Afghan security forces and the army said. He won «these units was due mainly to return to the country in this period. But the decision not to replace them with other units and did not know until late last month ».
U.S. officials said that with the withdrawal of units, not great until the last months of the year, U.S. commanders will have all the theory, reinforcement forces present on the ground during the fighting in the summer.
And spreads in Afghanistan, about 150 thousand foreign troops, including about 99 000 American.
The navy spokesman said that a unit of Marine fighting insurgents in Helmand province, south of the country will pull out between November and December. The commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus and Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff said Obama's plan to withdraw troops go further than recommended by.
But the American public weary of the war has continued for nearly a decade in Afghanistan and the exorbitant cost of the conflict has become a subject of controversy in Western capitals, which are still battling the effects of deflation.
And Defence Minister George Leon Panetta said last week that its focus will be on hand over security to Afghan forces by the end of 2014. But major doubts hovering over the ability of the Afghan army and police to take responsibility for addressing the Taliban insurgency. Panetta acknowledged that «there is still a lot of work in order to be able to transfer responsibilities to them».
On the other hand, said the NATO force in Afghanistan (ISAF) to open an investigation yesterday killed six civilians were killed during a military operation in the southeast. ISAF confirmed Thursday it had killed six people in that region, but said they were from the insurgents.
Miss announced in a statement that «Coalition forces take every accusation about civilian casualties very seriously and will conduct a full investigation on this process».To that, I left a small group of women Mukluk Kaaopa high and put lids on Rashen to the streets of the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday to protest the harassment of men in public places.
And raised the 20 women or so of the placards read «the street, me too» and «will not tolerate insults anymore» and some men with them in solidarity with their cause. Afghanistan remains a very conservative with a social and cultural restrictions on the freedoms of women, although achieved dramatic improvements to their legal rights since the Taliban were ousted from power by about ten years.
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