Sunday, 27 November 2011

Marines to wind down Afghan combat in 2012 (AP)

Marine Gen. John Allen,  left, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, Gen. James Amos, commandant of the Marine Corps, and Marine Maj. Gen. John Toolan, right, the senior U.S. commander in Helmand Province, confer at Combat Outpost Alcatraz on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2011, on Thanksgiving, just north of Sangin in north-central Helmand Province, Afghanistan. (AP Photos/Robert Burns)AP - U.S. Marines will march out of Afghanistan by the thousands next year, winding down combat in the Taliban heartland and testing the U.S. view that Afghan forces are capable of leading the fight against a battered but not yet beaten insurgency in the country's southwestern reaches, American military officers say.



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