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By Jessica Donati and Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - The text of a security pact between the United States and Afghanistan that sets out a military blueprint once Washington starts pulling out its troops after 2014 is unfinished a day before thousands of Afghan elders were due to start debating it. Without the accord the United States has warned it could pull out all its troops at the end of 2014 and leave Afghan forces to fight alone against a Taliban-led insurgency. Last-minute efforts to finalize the pact stalled on Tuesday by differences over whether President Barack Obama had agreed to issue a letter acknowledging U.S. mistakes made during the 12-year war. "The final language is not ready between the two governments," said Aimal Faizi, the Afghan president's spokesman, adding the U.S. state department was right to say that work remained to be done.
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