President Obama’s July 2011 date to begin pulling troops out of Afghanistan appeared to be slipping yesterday after senior US officials conceded that the deadline was not to be set in stone and that American and Nato forces will remain there for at least five more years.
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Barack Obama’s deadline to bring troops home from Afghanistan starts to slip
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Tags: Afghanistan, American and Nato forces, Defense Secretary Gates, President Obama, Secretary Clinton, US troops withdrawal
This entry was posted on December 7, 2009 at 9:22 am and is filed under Afghanistan, Commentary, President Barack Obama, Uncategorized, US policy, USA, war. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.