Karzai says he'll meet with Obama in Washington
December 14, 2012  03:19
President Hamid Karzai said today he will meet President Barack Obama in Washington next month to discuss a postwar US role in his country, whose fragile security was highlighted hours earlier by a suicide bombing that killed one US troop and two Afghan civilians. 

At a news conference with visiting Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Karzai said he and Obama will discuss how many US troops will remain after the Western combat mission ends in December 2014. He said he understands that immunity from Afghan laws for those remaining Americans is of "immense importance" to Washington, but he added that he has his own priorities in negotiating a postwar US role.
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