U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, left, and Hungarian Defense Minister Csaba Hende pose during a group photo of NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. NATO’s secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Wednesday that if Afghan leaders and the White House can’t agree on a key security pact, the U.S.-led alliance will pull all of its troops and equipment out of Afghanistan by December. The blunt announcement from Fogh Rasmussen at the start of a NATO defense ministers meeting ratchets up the pressure on Afghan President Hamid Karzai to strike a deal. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
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