STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW : President Obama announces all 33,000 "surge" troops will withdraw by September 2012 NEW: The withdrawal will begin next month, with 10,000 troops leaving Afghanistan this year NEW: After the withdrawal, almost 70,000 U.S. forces will still be in Afghanistan NEW: Senior administration officials say the surge's success allows the withdrawal to begin Check out the Afghanistan Crossroads blog for more on the Afghan conflict. Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama announced Wednesday night that all of the 33,000 additional U.S. forces he ordered to Afghanistan in December 2009 would be home within the next 15 months. In a nationally televised address from the East Room of the White House, Obama said 10,000 of the so-called "surge" forces would withdraw by the end of this year, and the other 23,000 would leave Afghanistan by September 2012. The troop withdrawals will begin next month, as promised when Obama ordered the surge...
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Tom Cruise climbs to death-defying heights in the new 'Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol,' and we have the kick-ass trailer! Yep, that's really him up there on the world's tallest building in Dubai… In 'Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol,' Tom's Ethan Hunt is joined by a new IMF team ( Jeremy Renner , Paula Patton and Simon Pegg ) as they face their most impossible mission yet. After the Kremlin is destroyed, the IMF is implicated in a global terrorist bombing plot and shut down. "Ghost Protocol" is initiated, meaning that Hunt and his rogue team must go undercover -- completely off the grid with no help from the U.S. government -- to clear their organization's name and track down the real terrorists out to incite global nuclear war. Produced by J.J. Abrams (who directed the last 'Mission: Impossible installment) and directed by Brad Bird ('The Incredibles'), 'Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol' features scene...