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KoKo

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1. Recommend...Interesting that lates news is we will keep 10,000 troops in until

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Tue May 27, 2014, 09:15 PM

May 2014

end of 2016. So...it sounds like a deal was made with Karzai at the last minute after this report.

Maybe they are hoping to work out a deal with Karzai's replacement if he wins the election for some kind of agreement that the soldiers remaining won't be prosecuted for war crimes?

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Recommend...Interesting that lates news is we will keep 10,000 troops in until KoKo May 2014 #1

It is not a done deal. bemildred May 2014 #2