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2019-09-03 Afghanistan
Washington to conditionally pull troops from five Afghan bases
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The US military will pull its troops from five bases in Afghanistan if the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
honor their end of a proposed deal, the US envoy leading negotiations between the two foes said on Monday.

"We have agreed that if the conditions proceed according to the agreement, we will leave within 135 days five bases in which we are present now," Zalmay Khalilzad told Tolo News, according to an excerpt of an interview the TV station published on Twitter.

Khalilzad was speaking in Dari.

Tolo said the full interview would be broadcast later Monday.

Earlier on Monday, President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money...
’s front man said that Khalilzad met with the Afghan president in the capital, Kabul, to brief him on the latest round of talks with the Taliban, as a deal nears on ending America’s longest war.

The front man confirmed the meeting took place on Sunday night at the presidential palace, shortly after Zalmay Khalilzad, arrived from Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
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Posted by Fred 2019-09-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top
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#1 Those bases will be booby trapped when we return.
Posted by gorb 2019-09-03 07:16||   2019-09-03 07:16|| Front Page Top

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