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Last US 'Surge' Troops Leave Afghanistan

33K that went over 2 years ago are now out of the country

By the Associated Press

Posted Sep 20, 2012 7:03 PM CDT

(AP) – Nearly two years after President Obama ordered 33,000 more US troops to Afghanistan to tamp down the escalating Taliban violence, the last of those surge troops have left the country, US officials said today. The withdrawal leaves 68,000 American forces in the war...   Read full story »

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