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Panetta: US combat in Afghanistan to end next year (AP)

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrives in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, to attend a NATO conference . (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)AP - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta laid out the administration's most explicit portrayal of the U.S. drawdown in Afghanistan, saying Wednesday that U.S. and other international forces in Afghanistan expect to end their combat role in 2013 and continue a training and advisory role with Afghan forces through 2014.


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