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May 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Australia’s defence force chief says the withdrawal of Australian troops from Afghanistan and the handover of their responsibilities there will be gradual over the next couple of years.
Last week, Prime Minister Julia Gillard and defence minister Stephen Smith said Australia was on target to finish the transition in the southwest province of Oruzgan by the end of 2014 and possibly earlier.
Australian Defence Force (ADF) chief General David Hurley said diggers would take more of a back role in the security responsibilities in the southern Asian nation.
“We will gradually take our hands off the tiller and be stepping back from our role partnering and mentoring right out in the forward areas with the ANA (Afghan national army) and ANSF (Afghan National Security Forces), including the police,” Gen Hurley told ABC Television on Monday.
“(We’ll be) pulling our mentoring teams back to Tarin Kowt and beginning to mentor at a higher level only.”
He said Prime Minister Julia Gillard has indicated on several occasions that there would be a discussion as to whether a continuing counter-terrorist role by Australian forces was needed.
The Afghanistan government and national army would have “the call of the shot” in conducting the operation from January 1, 2015.
Gen Hurley said history had shown that fighting parties had to negotiate to deliver a ceasefire in a nation, and that would be the likely scenario in Afghanistan.
“I’m sure there will need to be a level of reconciliation with elements of Taliban to enable Afghanistan to progress peacefully in to the future,” he said.
Gen Hurley said there were risks in the transition to where the ANA was capable of managing existing levels of Taliban activity, but he was optimistic about its ability to contain the insurgents.
“There will be forces there that are shaped by some risk mitigation for the Afghan government on that side of the security house,” Gen Hurley said.
“You can have reasonable confidence that we can produce a good outcome, though there is still a lot of work to be done in those areas.”
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