Publication Date:
Wed, 2011-10-19 18:56
In an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press, Marine Gen. John Allen said the “high-intensity” operation is focused on the Haqqani group, a militant network affiliated with the Taleban and Al-Qaeda.
Allen also says the transfer of security to Afghan forces is going to move faster than initially planned.
And he says roughly one-third of the 10,000 US troops President Barack Obama ordered withdrawn from Afghanistan this year will come from combat units.
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