Hamid Karzai accused NATO of illegally cutting down thousands of trees

Afghan President Hamid Karzai  accused NATO-led forces fighting an Islamic insurgency in his country of illegally cutting down thousands of trees. The US-backed leader said Western troops, part of a 140,000-strong US-led force deployed to Afghanistan to fight the Taliban, had chopped down up to 4,000 trees in Ghazni, a troubled province in the southeast.

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