Mixed messages from Pentagon on Afghan troop plans

2009/09/23 17:42:28 @Reuters: Top News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An assessment by the U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan that more forces are needed won public backing on Wednesday from the military's top leaders, but Defense Secretary Robert Gates has yet to decide on next steps, officials said. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=N5HImIeejGg:0lbKUtLhicc: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=N5HImIeejGg:0lbKUtLhicc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=N5HImIeejGg:0lbKUtLhicc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=N5HImIeejGg:0lbKUtLhicc:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=N5HImIeejGg:0lbKUtLhicc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/N5HImIeejGg" height="1" width="1"/
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