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Joe Biden said US troops would start their final withdrawal from Afghanistan on May 1, declaring it “time to end America’s longest war”. “I am now the fourth American president to preside over an American troop presence in Afghanistan,” he said in a White House speech on Wednesday. “Two Republicans. Two Democrats. I will not pass this responsibility to a fifth.” US presidents have promised to withdraw troops from Afghanistan since George W Bush first deployed them in the wake of the September 11 2001 attacks to take down the Taliban government that harboured Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda Islamists. In the two decades of war against Afghan and foreign militants, 2,488 Americans have died and 20,722 have been wounded, Biden said, taking out a card from his suit jacket he said he had kept with him for 12 years to record war casualties. The US withdrawal will start May 1, a deadline set under the Trump administration as part of an agreement that Biden said was “perhaps not what I would have negotiated myself”. The withdrawal is expected to be complete before the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Comments are closed.
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