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Afghan Assembly To Decide Next Month Future Of U.S. Troops

Afghan Assembly To Decide Next Month Future Of U.S. Troops
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Afghan police stand guard at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on October 18, 2013. A Taliban suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden car in Kabul outside a compound where many foreign workers are based, killing at least two local civilians, Afghan officials said. AFP PHOTO/Noorullah SHIRZADA (Photo credit should read Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images)

KABUL, Oct 19 (Reuters) - The future role of U.S. troops in Afghanistan after 2014, to be set down in a bilateral accord, will be put to an assembly of some 3,000 tribal elders and other prominent people next month, organisers of the meeting said on Saturday.

Organisers of the meeting, known as the Loya Jirga, said it would take place around Nov. 19-21. President Hamid Karzai last week said only the assembly had the authority to decide on the agreement.

Most combat troops are to be withdrawn from the country next year. The draft bilateralaccord contains provisions believed to be contentious to Kabul. These include a U.S. demand to retain legal jurisdiction over its troops who stay on in Afghanistan, which would give them immunity from Afghan law.

(Reporting by Mirwais Harooni; Writing by Jessica Donati; Editing by Ron Popeski)

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Afghan security guard seen at the entrance gate of a foreign logistics company at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on July 2, 2013. (SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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A victim's shoe lies on the ground as Afghan police secure the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on June 11, 2013. (SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Afghan officials and bystanders are pictured at the site of a roadside bomb blast in Ghazni province on July 3, 2013. (Rahmatullah Alizad/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Afghan security guard seen at the entrance gate of a foreign logistics company at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on July 2, 2013. (SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Afghan men carry a wounded man who is a security guard at a foreign logistics company as smoke rises from the entrance gate at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on July 2, 2013. (SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Afghan security guard seen at the entrance gate of a foreign logistics company at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on July 2, 2013. (SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Afghan policemen inspect the site of a suicide car bomb in Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan on June17, 2013. (NORR MOHAMMAD/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Afghanistan security personnel walk beside a body at the site of a blast in Kabul on June 18, 2013. (MASSOUD HOSSAINI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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A wounded Afghan man who is a security guard at a foreign logistics company seen at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on July 2, 2013. (SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Afghan policemen examine a badly damaged bus at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on June 11, 2013. (SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Injured Afghan survivors receive medical treatment after a suicide attack, at a hospital in Kabul on June 11, 2013. (DAUD YARDOST/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Afghan security forces stand guard at the site of a suicide attack near Kabul military airport in Kabul on June 10, 2013. (SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Afghan men carry a wounded man who is a security guard at a foreign logistics company as smoke rises from the entrance gate at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on July 2, 2013. (SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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