In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

Input: Consider Input: We're not bluffing, the Obama administration told Afghanistan on Tuesday in announcing for the first time it has started planning for the possible withdrawal of all U.S. troops by the end of the year if no security agreement is signed. Statements by the White House and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel showed President Barack Obama's impatience with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai's refusal to sign the agreement that would keep several thousand American troops in the country after combat operations conclude this year. In a phone call with Karzai on Tuesday to discuss upcoming elections for a new Afghan leader, Obama made clear that time was running out to properly plan for keeping any U.S. forces in the country beyond 2014, the White House said.President Obama calls Afghan leader to discuss security agreementObama orders planning for bringing home all U.S. troops at the end of 2014Afghan President Karzai refuses to sign a deal to keep some troops thereThe White House says an agreement could happen after Karzai leaves office in April 
 Question:Obama, he said, has been very clear that the possibility of U.S. troops staying in Afghanistan depends "on whether we have a bilateral security agreement signed by the Afghani government, to assure our rights of our troops and other important elements that are required any time _ has troops in another country."

Output: U.S.


Input: Consider Input: Two women who were part of a group that repeatedly searched Mississippi's capital city for black people to assault were sentenced Thursday to multiple years in federal prison for their role in the 2011 hate killing of 47-year-old James Craig Anderson. U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate on Thursday sentenced Shelbie Brooke Richards, 21, of Pearl to eight years in prison on one count each of conspiracy to commit a hate crime and concealing the crime by lying to police. In a separate hearing earlier Thursday, Wingate also sentenced Sarah Adelia Graves, 22, of Crystal Springs to five years in prison for one count of conspiracy to commit a hate crime.Sarah Graves, 22, and Shelbie Richards, 21, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit the 2011 hate crime - Graves got five years, Richards received eightThe women were among 10 white teens who left a party in Rankin County to find black men to assault in Jackson, which they called 'Jafrica'Both women were in Deryl Dedmon's truck when he fatally ran over James Craig Anderson, 47, in June 2011 
 Question:Hiding their faces: The family of Shelbie Richards hide their faces from photographers outside the federal courthouse in Jackson following _' sentencing Thursday.

Output: Shelbie Brooke Richards


Input: Consider Input: (CNN) Defense attorneys of the accused killer Dylann Roof filed a legal challenge to the U.S. death penalty on Monday night. Roof's attorneys filed the motion stating that they would drop the challenge if prosecutors dropped their pursuit of the death sentence in his case. Roof, 22, is accused of killing nine people at a historic African American church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015. Roof, who is white, is charged with 33 federal offenses, including hate crime charges for allegedly targeting his victims on the basis of their race and religion. "The nature of the alleged crime and the resulting harm compelled this decision," Attorney General Loretta Lynch had said in May, regarding the decision to pursue the death penalty.Dylann Roof is accused of killing nine people at a church in 2015His lawyers challenge federal death penalty 
 Question:_ will withdraw this motion and plead guilty as charged to all counts in the indictment."


Output: Dylann Roof