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JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): The U.S. mission in Afghanistan ran into yet more trouble today. Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced he wants American forces to pull back to their bases after mass killings last weekend.
Karzai's call was the most direct fallout from Sunday's massacre of 16 Afghans, allegedly by an American soldier stationed at a small outpost near Kandahar. In a statement, he said: "International security forces have to be taken out of Afghan village outposts and return to bases immediately." The Afghan president also said he wants NATO to hand over all security duties to Afghan forces in 2013, a year early.
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"Karzai Calls on U.S. to Pull Back as Taliban Cancel Talks" by ROD NORDLAND, ELISABETH BUMILLER, and MATTHEW ROSENBERG; New York Times 3/15/2012
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