Karzai's demand takes US military by surprise

February 26, 2013 02:57

Afghan President Hamid Karzai's demand for US special forces to leave a key province came as a surprise to American commanders, who had no advance warning of the order, officials said today.

It remained unclear what led Karzai to issue a blunt announcement that US special operations force would have two weeks to withdraw from the strategic Wardak province, southwest of the capital Kabul, two US officials said. "We're not aware of any incident that would have generated this kind of response," one official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.

In a statement yesterday, Karzai charged that Afghans working with US forces had carried out torture and murder that had triggered local outrage.

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