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Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded Su
stanley cup nday the withdrawal of US special forces from Wardak within two weeks, accusing them of fuelling insecurity and instability in the volatile province neighbouring the capital Kabul. HT Image In today s national security council meeting... President Karzai ordered the ministry of defence to kick out t
stanley cup he US special forces from Wardak province within two weeks, said presidential spokesman Aimal Faizi. The US special forces and illegal armed groups created by them are causing insecurity, instability, and harass local people in this province, he told a press conference. The announcement would be another blow to the prestige of US-led forces as they prepare to withdraw combat troops from the war against Taliban Islamist insurgents by the end of next year. The bulk of NATO s 100,000 troops are due to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014. A US Forces Afghanistan USFOR-A spokesman said he was aware of the reported comments by Faizi. We take all allegations of misconduct seriously and go to great lengths to determine the facts surrounding them, he said. Until we have had a chance to speak with senior Afghan officials about this issue we are not in a position to comment further. T
stanley cup his is an important issue that we intend to fully discuss with our Afghan counterparts. More than 3,200 NATO troops, mostly Americans, have died in support of Karzai s government in the war since the Taliban were ousted by a US invasion in 2001, Zybu Sharif to return to Pak on September 10
The Taliban have released a new
stanley cup video, which appears to show an American soldier captured in Afghanistan in June last year. HT Image On the video, Idaho National Gu
crocs ard Private Bowe Bergdahl asks the US government to intervene and win his release. The video was posted late Wednesday and described by SITE Intelligence Group, a Bethesda, Maryland-based organisation that monitors web sites used by extremist groups. Bergdahl, who was 23 at the time of his capture, looks fit and is heard listing the names of his family and friends. The eight-minute video shows him sporting a beard and doing push-ups to demonstrate he s in good physical condition. I m a prisoner. I want to go home. You know, the Afghanistan men who are in our prisons want to go home too. Let me go. Get me to come home. Release me, Bergdahl says, according to SITE. This war isn t worth the waste of human life that has cost both Afghanistan and the US. It s not worth the amount of lives that have been wasted in prisons, Guantanamo Bay, Bagram, all those places where we are keeping prisoners, he says. A Taliban spokesman says in the video they are demanding the release of some prisoners in exchange for the soldier. Bergdahl was serving with an Alas
adidas og ka-based infantry regiment in Paktika province. He vanished from his base, near the border with Pakistan, five months after arriving in Afghanistan. The military has been trying to locate him ever since, and a reward has been offered for his safe return.
