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Mahdi, 21, a Kabul resident originally from the central province of Bamiyan, talked to a McClatchy reporter Sunday, May 20, 2012, about his concerns about the NATO summit being held in Chicago. A member of the Hazara ethnic group, which suffered badly under the Taliban regime, Mahdi, who like many Afghans goes by just one name, was adamant that U.S. and NATO troops needed to remain in Afghanistan beyond 2014. (Jon Stephenson/MCT)
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Gul Alam, 18, a high school student from central Baghlan province, talked about his concerns about Afghanistan's future on Sunday, May 20, 2012. He said his message to NATO leaders meeting in Chicago was simple: withdrawing their troops would see the Taliban return to power, "and we will have the same disaster that we had before." (Jon Stephenson/MCT)
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Nemat Khan, interviewed Sunday, May 20, 2012, in Kabul, Afghanistan, said he believed the presence of foreign troops had brought nothing but instability. "I don't consider roads and advantage," he said when asked about what he hoped for from the NATO summit in Chicago. Khan is originally from Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban. (Jon Stephenson/MCT)
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Hakim Khan Ahmadza, 49, an accountant for the government of northern Kunduz province, talked Sunday, May 20, 2012, about his expectations of the NATO summit in Chicago. He said he hoped the NATO leaders would continue to put pressure on Pakistan and Iran to stop interferring in Afghanistan's affairs and thathe eblived Afghaninstan's security forces were strong enough to withstand the Taliban after U.S. and other countries withdraw in 2014. (Jon Stephenson/MCT)
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