Commander to send troop request for Afghanistan (AP)

Calendar September 23, 2009 | Posted by billspaced

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FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009, file photo U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, right, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, and German Col. Georg Klein, left, commander of the German base in Kunduz, visit the site where villagers reportedly died when American jets bombed fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban, outside Kunduz, Afghanistan. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, said in a confidential report that without additional forces, the war against insurgents there will end in failure, The Washington Post reported Monday Sept. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)AP – The Pentagon said Wednesday that a request for new troops from the U.S. commander in Afghanistan may have to be revised amid growing uncertainty inside the Obama administration over whether to escalate the American commitment to the eight-year war.

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