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Are currently filling a gap that allow us to deliver development assistance that focuses on improving the lives of the afghan people. we're still gathering information about how it would specifically effect the united states and our contracts with private companies. >> reporter: so a lot of these security contractors are out guarding reconstruction sites, trying to help improve the lives of the afghan people. so a lot of what we're hearing is, in essence, it's impossible to get rid of them in four months. if you had afghan security forces that were sitting around doing nothing, okay, you could...

Creating more friction with afghan president hamid karzai who has made a clear statement that he wants the security contractors out. u.s. officials say they're willing to work with him, he's made his intentions perfectly clear, but they say thinking this is going to happen anytime soon is just not realistic. this is not the time or the place to pull those contractors out of afghanistan at a critical time in this war, jenna. jenna: a lot of deadlines looming over there. mike, thank you so much. looking forward to talking to you again soon. >> reporter: thanks, jenna. jenna: we have an update on...

Experts say security contractors have not been well regulated. >> we probably depended too much on certain private firms to carry guns and use force, on behalf of the united states or other governments in recent wars. and perhaps karzai is pushing back against that. >> nato officials say the international coalition fully supports karzai's object of reducing private security with afghan eventually taking over. but the military emphasizes the scale and scope of the reduction will require time to fully implement which could be all part of karzai's negotiation with u.s. officials. >> i am not goin...

Reconstruction and development assistance efforts. but now afghan president hamid karzai says the security contractors, american and those from other countries have four months and then they need to get out. >> we don't want to see a decision like this, you know, shut down our operations. when you look at the volume of security contractors in afghanistan, and there are a lot of them, they more or less equal the other side of the military surge. if we have to pull back military personnel to do security work that's currently doing, being done by contractors. that can have an impact, but only on ...

24,000 of contractors because this is an estimate because nobody knows for sure, if you can believe it, 24,000 or so working with the u.s. government in afghanistan providing only security. >> well, is getting private exacters out of afghanistan -- is that even an option? the state department is talking about it will take a look at this. is that honestly going to happen? >> it's so not doable in the foreseeable future. mike tebow, studying how the u.s. is using this whole sort of shadow army to do its duty just got back from afghanistan, and even he says there's the convoy issue and the bigger...