Gates hopes for Afghan momentum shift this year

2009/05/13 18:06:09 @Reuters: International News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday he hoped momentum in the Afghan war would shift to the United States and its allies by the end of this year. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=1Ec-Fd6QpgI:YV8LIf5C4w8: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=1Ec-Fd6QpgI:YV8LIf5C4w8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=1Ec-Fd6QpgI:YV8LIf5C4w8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=1Ec-Fd6QpgI:YV8LIf5C4w8:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=1Ec-Fd6QpgI:YV8LIf5C4w8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/1Ec-Fd6QpgI" height="1" width="1"/
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