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Nice, joe. defense secretary leon panetta announces american combat forces will step back in afghanistan some time next year, a year ahead of the previous timetable. we'll ask richard haass to help us through that news. and fans go on the attack in egypt, more than 70 people have died. the latest when we come back. hey, aren't you supposed to be following
Interestingly here however no mention was made of the withdrawal of combat forces. evan coleman is a news terrorism analyst and senior partner at flash point global partners. evan, good to see you to give insight. who is this group? >> it is basically al qaeda in iraq. al qaeda was having serious publicity problems because they were killing a lot of innocent sunni muslims and they decided to rename their group. this is about as thin of a mirror as you can find. this is al qaeda in iraq. >> they're talk about the ministry of war and captives that are executed. here's a statement. the series of ...
Deal, to end this war in iraq. >> when asked how he would respond if they ask for troops to stay behind. >> no, i don't think that would have ever, i don't think we would respond to that. had they said leave troops to help us train, that we would consider. but the idea of keeping 20,000 troops there, no. leon panetta made an unannounced stop yesterday. he told u.s. forces the coming year will mark a turning point for the american wars in the region. 10,000 u.s. forces will be withdrawn from afghanistan by the end of the year with a pentagon plan to pull out all combat forces by the year 2014...
Chur of those combat forces that we are asking so much of at this time and finally the direct feedback from the survey, my recommendation is that we should not implement repeal at this time. >> now in an interview with the associated press just 69 days after don't ask don't tell officially ended, general amos says i'm very pleased with how it has gone. he told the ap at the annual ball in washington earlier this month, celebrating the birth of the marine corps a female marine approached his wife bonny and introduced herself and her lesbian partner. bonny looked at them and said happy birthday ...
♪ that's logistics. ♪ ♪ saving time, cutting stress, when you use ups ♪ ♪ that's logistics. ♪ marine commandant amos has rewritten his position on don't ask don't tell. he opposed the repeal of don't ask, don't tell. a military survey found only 40% of marines opposed the repeal, but a majority of marines assigned to combat duty, 56%, opposed the repeal before it was repealed. gener general amos chose to speak for the 56% of marines who opposed repeal when he testified to the senate armed services committee last december. >> on what i know about the very tough fight in afghanista...