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CNN.com has an article about the French in Afghanistan:

France will start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, following a timetable similar to the one President Barack Obama announced. "This withdrawal will be done in consultation with our allies and with the Afghan authorities," the statement from Nicolas Sarkozy's office said. All French soldiers could be out of Afghanistan by 2013, French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet told France Info radio. France has 3,935 troops in Afghanistan, according to the NATO mission there. Obama said that the U.S. would withdraw 33,000 U.S. troops by September of 2012. That will leave just under 70,000 Americans there.