Gates blames past lack of troops for Taliban edge

2009/10/06 07:33:47 @Reuters: International News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates blamed the Taliban's revival on a past failure to deploy enough troops to Afghanistan and said U.S. forces would not withdraw whatever the result of President Barack Obama's strategy review. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=krlrFmZeqzg:-TTBJfnh6PA:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=krlrFmZeqzg:-TTBJfnh6PA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=krlrFmZeqzg:-TTBJfnh6PA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=krlrFmZeqzg:-TTBJfnh6PA:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=krlrFmZeqzg:-TTBJfnh6PA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/krlrFmZeqzg" height="1" width="1"/
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