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| 'Premature' to eye faster pullout |
| 'Premature' to eye faster pullout of Afghanistan: Gates
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 16-May-2011
2:23:26 AM |
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US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates has said accelerating troop withdrawals from Afghanistan because of Osama bin Laden's death would be "premature."
The US covert raid that killed Al-Qaeda's chief has fuelled calls to scale back the massive US presence in Afghanistan, just as President Barack Obama reviews plans to begin pulling out some of the 100,000 troops there in July.
Gates, in an interview broadcast on the CBS news show "60 Minutes", on Sunday said it's too early to consider speeding the pace of withdrawal. "I think it's premature," he said. "I think we just don't know. It's only been a week. And people are already drawing historical conclusions. I think that's a little quick."
Skeptics have seized on bin Laden's demise to argue that there is no reason to keep so many troops in Afghanistan in a war originally launched after the September 11 attacks to prevent Al-Qaeda from using the country as a sanctuary
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