Summer and winter withdrawal of two groups or sub-

Summer and winter withdrawal of two groups or sub-

Obama is scheduled to U.S. 22 at 8 pm Eastern Time (Beijing time at 8:00 on the 23rd) in a televised speech.

Obama last week, and NATO International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, commander David Petraeus and other top national security team met to listen to the withdrawal recommendations.

Associated Press, Obama 21 meeting at the White House, told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and outgoing Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and other officials of his withdrawal plan.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said: "The president is commander in chief, responsible for this process and make decisions."

Obama may announce 10,000 troops. A senior Defense Department official said the U.S. military may withdraw from Afghanistan this summer 5000, winter or spring of 2012, again before the withdrawal of 5,000 people.

The Associated Press said, the equivalent of 10,000 two brigades. Obama is not clear whether the two integrated brigades to prepare to withdraw.

Obama announced the end of 2009 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, is scheduled to begin withdrawing troops in July 2011. The Associated Press reported, after the withdrawal of 10,000 people, Obama will be considered after the remaining twenty thousand additional troops withdrawal timetable.

There are about 100,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan. The United States launched the war in Afghanistan since 2001 at least 1522 U.S. soldiers died in Afghanistan.

Many consultant support in July, "large scale" to withdraw the one hand, progress in the war in Afghanistan, on the other "base" before the organization's top figures of Osama bin Laden killed by U.S. forces in early May, to a certain extent Afghan anti-government armed forces in combat, for the opportunity this year to provide large-scale withdrawal. Tendency to "moderate" withdrawal of Defense Robert Gates also believes that the withdrawal should be considered public opinion. "Americans are tired of this war for 10 years."