NATO commander sees Afghans' support as priority

2009/04/09 00:30:17 @Reuters: International News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan has told his troops that winning Afghans' support is more important than killing insurgents, a strategy championed by the U.S. military in Iraq. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=zq6xBTDP1iM:Y3vaTtwaEiM:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=zq6xBTDP1iM:Y3vaTtwaEiM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=zq6xBTDP1iM:Y3vaTtwaEiM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=zq6xBTDP1iM:Y3vaTtwaEiM:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=zq6xBTDP1iM:Y3vaTtwaEiM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/zq6xBTDP1iM" height="1" width="1"/
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