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April 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Radio New Zealand quoted Prime Minister John Key as saying on Wednesday that the 140 New Zealand troops might come home before 2014 from Afghanistan’s Bamiyan province.
Foreign Minister Murray McCully is currently in Brussels to attend a NATO meeting set to be dominated by plans for troop withdrawal from the war-torn country.
McCully said that his country would announce the troop exit plan in “the next few weeks.”
“We’re certainly getting signals that it will be earlier than had been expected,” he said.
The comments came a day after Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan earlier than originally scheduled.
Gillard said the troop withdrawal will kick off later this year and would be completed by mid-2013.
Australia had originally scheduled to withdraw its soldiers by the end of 2014.
Australia has more than 1,550 troops stationed in Afghanistan and has so far lost 32 soldiers in the conflict.
A recent German poll indicated that the majority of Afghan people desire an early withdrawal of US-led forces from their country.
Afghan military forces are set to take full security control of Afghanistan following the foreign troop pullout by the end of 2014.
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