US seeks Bagram base under BSA: Spanta --- KABUL (PAN): National Security Advisor Rangin Dadfar Spanta on Saturday said the US had sought only one independent military base and up to 16,000 American troops would stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014 if the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) was signed. -- Briefing Wolesi Jirga -- or lower house -- members on the security pact, the presidential advisor said the US had no plan to establish military bases in Afghanistan, except the Bagram airbase in central Parwan province. -- However, he said the US wanted to deploy its troops to eight areas for training Afghan forces, if Afghanistan wanted so. -- Spanta said the eight areas included Kabul, Mazar-i-Sharif (the capital of northern Balkh province, Jalalabad (the capital of eastern Nangarhar province), Shorabak district of southern Helmand, Gardez (the capital of southeastern Paktia province), Shindand district of western Herat province and Kandahar Airfield in southern Kandahar province. -- He said the US was bound under the security deal to train and equip Afghan forces on the level of NATO member states. - More, Pajhwok