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Stay out of province, Afghans tell elite GIs

Posted: February 25, 2013 at 12:54 a.m.

A security official stands guard at the scene of a suicide car-bomb attack that killed and injured several people at the National Directorate of Security in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Sunday.

The Afghan government on Sunday banned elite U.S. forces from operating in a strategic province adjoining Kabul, citing complaints that Afghans working for U.S. special operations forces have killed and abused villagers in the area.

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Security forces for the Afghan intelligence department stand guard inside a building under construction not far from where an... (By: MUSADEQ SADEQ) (Credit: AP)

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