KABUL — The Afghan government on Sunday banned elite US forces from operating in a strategic province adjoining Kabul, citing complaints that Afghans working for the troops have tortured and killed villagers.
The ban is scheduled to go into effect in two weeks in the province, Maidan Wardak, which has long been seen as a key link in the defense of the capital against the Taliban.
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Let's get out of this hell hole dominated by this corrupt leader. Too much American blood has been shed on this soil already.
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We’ve got to lay responsibility for the Afghanistan failure squarely on the Bush Administration and its enablers, some of whom are urging military action in Syria today. The decision to go into Afghanistan was not a bad one but the implementation and development of policy and strategy over time was wasteful, ill conceived and, ultimately, immoral. Listen to what is going on there now via a BBC report earlier today… http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21547542.