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General McChrystal has been recalled to Washington after he and his staff made disrespectful remarks about the Obama administration. Security forces killed 31 Haqqani Network fighters in Paktika and detained a Taliban commander and several fighters in Baghlan and Helmand. The Taliban killed 11 Afghans, including a provincial health director, in attacks in Herat, Ghor, Kandahar, and Kunduz, and a British Marine in Helmand.