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March 9th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The deal was signed on Friday by the Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak and the commander of US forces in Afghanistan John Allen.
Wardak said an Afghan commander would soon be appointed to take charge of the detention center in Bagram, the largest US-run prison in Afghanistan, with the transfer expected to be completed in about six months.
The move comes after Kabul-Washington talks on a “strategic partnership” failed due to differences over the US-led forces’ overnight attacks on civilians’ homes and the handover of US-run prisons to Afghan authorities.
The deal would allow US to keep its forces in the war-torn country beyond a previously agreed withdrawal deadline of 2014.
“The signing of this memorandum is an important step forward in our Strategic Partnership negotiations,” Allen said at the signing ceremony.
The deal comes amid escalating anti-US sentiments across Afghanistan and the rest of Muslim world after large numbers of copies of the Holy Qur’an were burned American soldiers at Bagram in late February.
The desecration ignited days of anti-US protests in which some 40 people died in Afghanistan, plunged relations between the US-led forces and their Afghan allies to an all time low and forced US President Barack Obama to apologize.
Afghans have, however, rejected the apology and demanded an immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops from their country.
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