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**FILE** Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta (Associated Press)

Panetta: U.S. combat in Afghanistan to end next year

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta briefs reporters Wednesday aboard a plane en route to a NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels. He called 2013 a critical year for the decade-old U.S. military mission in Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

Panetta: U.S. combat in Afghanistan to end next year

By Robert Burns ASSOCIATED PRESS - The Washington Times