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'The Afghan president has ordered US special forces to leave Wardak province within two weeks over allegations of disappearances and torture. The measures were being taken due to the actions of Afghans considered to be part of US special forces, said a spokesman for Hamid Karzai. The strategically significant, central province of Wardak has been the recent focus of counter-insurgency operations. A US spokesman said it took all allegations of misconduct seriously.'

WARDAK, Afghanistan (Army News Service, Aug. 19, 2005) – After several weeks of sizing each other up, paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division’s Task Force Red Falcon met enemy forces in Eastern Ghazni province head on for the first time during Operation Neptune Aug. 8 through 12, resulting in the death of one militia member. The operation began with a dawn-breaking raid on a village suspected of harboring enemy militants, by two companies from the 82nd’s newly-arrived 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, as well as units from the Afghan National Army and the Afghan National Police. They task force...