U.S. Special Forces have scaled back their presence in northern Afghanistan, but military investigators are still "pursuing leads" on key Taliban figures or those linked to Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, a U.S. commander said.
The cut in the Special Forces contingent suggests U.S. military interrogators have nearly finished with the major task of questioning the remaining 3,500 Taliban prisoners in a severely crowded compound in the northern city of Shibergan.
