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Former US president George W. Bush on Wednesday criticised the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan and said civilians were being left to be “slaughtered” by the Taliban. “Afghan women and girls are going to suffer unspeakable harm. This is a mistake… They’re just going to be left behind to be slaughtered by these very brutal people, and it breaks my heart,” Bush told German broadcaster Deutsche Welle. The former Republican president, who sent troops to Afghanistan in autumn 2001 after the 11 September attacks on New York’s World Trade Center, said he believed German Chancellor Angela …