Us to withdraw troops from Afghanistan

Barack Obama orders the withdrawal of 33 000 troops from Afghanistan by 2012

The U.S. president announced in a speech to the country from the White House, that 10 thousand of the troops will leave the Asian country before the end of the year.

  

Afghan Taliban say U.S. military withdrawal does not alter their plans to combat

The U.S. president, Barack Obama , Wednesday announced the withdrawal of 33,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, 10,000 of them before the end of this year and the remaining 23,000 by September 2012, just in time for November elections following when play re-election. "Of course, there are still big challenges ahead, this is the beginning not the end of our efforts" to end this war, the longest in U.S. history , Obama acknowledged an address to the nation delivered from the White House.  With this announcement, Obama kept his promise to order the withdrawal of two additional brigades in Afghanistan decided to deploy in 2009, when violence raged and the bombings in China. In Anyway, now ten years since the launch of the campaign in Afghanistan in the invaded country a few weeks after the attacks of 11 September 2001, will be deployed about 65 U.S. soldiers . White House officials asserted that the decision of this partial withdrawal was taken 18 months after Obama ordered climbing and after having achieved "substantial progress" in combating the Taliban and al Qaeda militants in Afghanistan. The United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001 just to prosecute the leaders of Al Qaeda, the Islamic militant group considered responsible for the attacks of September 11 of that year, and overthrow the Taliban government, which gave refuge to these radicals. Today, Obama said that U.S. troops are "serving" with the objectives taxes in 2009 when he decided to climb . At that time, the Pentagon proposed to "refocus on Al Qaeda" while withdrawing troops from Iraq and "reverse" the growth of the Taliban, who "had regrouped and were on the offensive, "he said. Obama included among the developments since the coup the military escalation command in early May in Pakistan over the life of Osama bin Laden , "the only known al-Qaeda leader," said President . 'We have Al Qaeda on the road to defeat, " Obama said, and "serious losses applied to the Taliban." The president also seemed to recognize many of the criticisms against him for keeping America at war in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya as the country continues to suffer the harsh consequences of the recent recession. "It is time that we focus on building our country," said the president. With an unemployment rate of 9.1% and an economic situation that does not end recover from the crisis, Obama needs to limit the weak points of his administration as they approach the 2012 elections, when Republicans sought to evict the White House. "In the last decade we spend a trillion dollars on wars, at a time increasing debt and economic hardship, "Obama admitted. "Now we must invest in the most precious resource of the United States: its people," he said.