Obama Administration considering to increase elite troops' role in Afghanistan

The Obama Administration is considering escalating the role of U.S. Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan between now and 2014, a senior administration official confirms to CNN.

The plan would be to have those forces increasingly take on a combat role and hunt key terrorists, as conventional forces wind down combat and focus more on training Afghans.

Read more: CNN

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