NATO deciding Afghanistan troop withdrawal plan
LISBON, Portugal (AP): NATO’s leaders on Saturday were deciding the alliance’s exit strategy from Afghanistan and what sort of long-term military presence for advising, training and logistics should remain after that to prevent the war-torn nation from slipping back into chaos. President Barack Obama, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and leaders of the 28-member alliance were meeting behind closed doors fine-tuning a plan for a hand-off of security responsibility to Afghan security forces beginning next year in phases that will be completed by 2014. “The direction starting today is clear, toward Afghan leadership and Afghan ownership (of the war),” NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen…
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