Yet many residents say they can hardly wait for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Laghman Province, one of seven areas across the country that have been chosen for an early, partly symbolic transition from foreign to Afghan security control beginning next month. All foreign combat forces are slated to withdraw from Afghanistan by 2014.
Afghans prepare to take over security
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