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US intelligence director does not believe Karzai will sign security pact

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11-02-2014 | 10:59

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The U.S. director of national intelligence, said on Tuesday he does not expect Afghan President Hamid Karzai to sign a bilateral security agreement with the United States.

The Obama administration has been pressing Karzai to sign a security pact that would authorize U.S. troops to remain in Afghanistan after 2014. But Karzai has refused so far to sign a bilateral security agreement, which Washington insists must be approved before it will agree to leave a troop contingent behind.

"I don't believe that President Karzai is going to sign it," National Intelligence Director James Clapper said at a U.S. Senate hearing when asked whether he thought it would best if Washington simply decided to wait for the election of a new Afghan president for the signing of an agreement.

On another note, the US forces in Afghanistan condemned a decision by the Afghan government to move forward with plans to release additional detainees that the United States believes pose a continuing militant threat.

"United States Forces-Afghanistan has learned that 65 dangerous individuals from a group of 88 detainees under dispute have been ordered released from the Afghan National Detention Facility at Parwan," the U.S. military force said in a statement.

"The release of these detainees is a major step backward for the rule of law in Afghanistan," it said. Previously, the Afghan government had said there was enough evidence to try only 16 of 88 prisoners that the United States considers a threat to security, and that the remainder would be freed.

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