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Face the death penalty. on thursday in the continued fallout from those killings, america's military campaign in afghanistan suffered a double blow. in a rebuke to visiting u.s. defense secretary leon panetta, president hamid karzai demanded a pullback of nato troops fromville labels and rural areas and ask that the transfer of security responsibilities to afghan forces leading up to a complete withdrawal be sped up. in addition, the taliban suspended all talks with the united states thursday blaming a lack of clarity on the issues by the u.s. and doubts about america's willingness to carry ...

>> well, it's the egyptian people. we are on the side -- as we have been for more than 30 years -- of a democratic egypt that provides both political and economic rights to its people, that respects the universal human rights of all egyptians. that is the message that every ambassador, whether republican or democratic president, everyone has conveyed for over 30 years. what happens is truly up to the egyptian people. and what the united states is doing is sending a very clear message. we wish to see everyone refrain from violence. the army is now fulfilling security responsibilities. they are ...

Mubarak or the people in the streets? >> well, it's the egyptian people. we are on the side -- as we have been for more than 30 years -- of a democratic egypt that provides both political and economic rights to its people, that respects the universal human rights of all egyptians. that is the message that every ambassador, whether republican or democratic president, everyone has conveyed for over 30 years. what happens is truly up to the egyptian people. and what the united states is doing is sending a very clear message. we wish to see everyone refrain from violence. the army is now fulfillin...

Dimunition of power in afghanistan and how do we play in that? and how do you grow the national army if you include the national police in a country that does not have a national army? i asked general mcchrystal what the largest army the afghanis had and it was 80,000. so those are unknowns and we are a little bit prisoner of the unknowns in terms of moving to the point of moving the people out, and we need to reach the point to move the people out. we should not be an occupying force in that part of the world whether it is iraq or afghanistan. >> senator, let me read the article from henry ki...