Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Nine years after the occupation of Afghanistan, a high-ranking US officer has said the drawdown of US-led foreign forces from the Asian country will be a slow process. "It's not one morning people are going to wake up and all coalition forces will be gone. It'll be a slowly thinning out process," AFP quoted Major General Richard Mills as saying on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the US has plans to set up permanent military bases in Afghanistan, claiming the bases aim at fighting the Taliban and al-Qaeda. |



