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].

Q: 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."

A: U.S.
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Q: (CNN) -- In June, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man behind the proposed ground zero mosque, was asked on live radio if he believed Hamas is a terrorist organization. This isn't a difficult question: Hamas employs suicide bombers and fires incendiary rockets at civilian targets within Israel. It calls for the destruction of the Jewish state followed by the establishment of a potentially fundamentalist and repressive regime. Governments all over the world, including the United States and the European Union, rightfully consider Hamas to be a terrorist organization that willfully and indiscriminately targets innocent civilians. Yet Imam Rauf, after being asked this simple, straightforward question, refused to state whether or not he believed Hamas to be a terrorist organization. He said: "I will not allow anybody to put me in a position where I am seen by any party in the world as an adversary or as an enemy."Rick Lazio says the Imam behind the planned Islamic Center refused to call Hamas terroristLazio: Other associations also make him wary of center's funding sourcesHe says New Yorkers have a right to know where money is coming from to feel safeLazio: The state attorney general should request Cordoba Initiative open its books 
 Question:The _ has reported less than $20,000 in assets.

A: Cordoba Initiative
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Q: Barcelona, Spain (CNN) Spain's highest court has suspended a meeting of Catalonia's regional parliament planned for Monday in an apparent attempt to prevent Catalan President Carles Puigdemont's expected declaration of independence. The Constitutional Court said Thursday it had issued the suspension decision following a request from the Catalan Socialist Party, which opposes secession. The parliamentary session was to have been Puigdemont's first opportunity to make a formal declaration of independence under a Catalan referendum law that the Constitutional Court had previously ruled illegal. "We are considering what to do," Carme Forcadell, the regional Parliament's president, told reporters. "I can assure you that we will defend the sovereignty of the Parliament and the freedom of speech, as well as the lawmakers' right of initiative."Spanish court bars Catalan parliament from meetingCatalan official says move "unusual and extremely serious"Catalan president expected to declare independence Monday 
 Question:Asked by CNN about the court's decision, the _ government responded: "We will see."

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Catalonia
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