Monday, June 20, 2011

U.S. troops in Afghanistan Getting Discharged

President Barack Obama next Wednesday will announce the next important step for the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan. Obama outlines plan would likely return of thousands of U.S. troops from Afghanistan beginning next July as well as preparing the country was in full control of security in their country in 2014.

According to news agency Associated Press (AP), the plan was disclosed Obama's U.S. presidential office, the White House. "He was still completing its decision and review the options that exist," said White House spokesman, Jay Carney, on Monday.

According to sources in the White House, which cited the AP, Obama is still thinking about the details, like how many troops would be repatriated from Afghanistan in the early stages, next month. He also studied a number of options proposed General David Petraeus, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.

When I start the task as president in January 2009, Obama adds to U.S. military personnel to Afghanistan as much as threefold. Now, they number around 100,000 people.

At the end of 2009, Obama is sending 30,000 new personnel to Afghanistan, which provided always that he would also repatriate some of the troops who have served long enough in there in July 2011.

Supported a number of countries, putting U.S. troops to Afghanistan shortly after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. There, U.S. forces fighting al-Qaeda terrorist network and the Taliban, and attempt to re-stabilize Afghanistan, which for years was destroyed by civil war.

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