JALALABAD, Afghanistan – US Ambassador Karl Eikenberry spent yesterday visiting a province in eastern Afghanistan, hoping to reassure local officials, tribal elders, and shopkeepers that President Obama’s announced troop withdrawal “does not mean the United States is abandoning Afghanistan.” “For nine years, the international community has been in front. Beginning now and over the next three years, the Afghan people will be in front,” Eikenberry told a group of elders in the Mohmand Dara district of eastern Nangarhar Province. Although Afghan police and soldiers are expected to take full responsibility for…
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