Gates opens door to possible Afghan troop increase
2009/09/03 22:08:36 @Reuters: Top News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday the military resources needed to stem Taliban gains were arriving in Afghanistan but signaled he would be open to sending additional troops, asserting the war was not "slipping through the administration's fingers". div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=YTMp6aZqOag:q80OuGfc_tw:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=YTMp6aZqOag:q80OuGfc_tw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=YTMp6aZqOag:q80OuGfc_tw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=YTMp6aZqOag:q80OuGfc_tw:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=YTMp6aZqOag:q80OuGfc_tw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/YTMp6aZqOag" height="1" width="1"/ [ VIEW FULL COVERAGE @Reuters: Top News ] |
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