NATO may need 30 days to secure Taliban stronghold

2010/02/18 13:11:28 @Reuters: World News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NATO and Afghan troops have hit pockets of stiff resistance as they assault the Taliban's main stronghold in southern Afghanistan and may need another month to secure the area, a NATO commander said on Thursday. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=mBX_DCBPOQA:gaNHaMwICAc: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=mBX_DCBPOQA:gaNHaMwICAc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=mBX_DCBPOQA:gaNHaMwICAc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=mBX_DCBPOQA:gaNHaMwICAc:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=mBX_DCBPOQA:gaNHaMwICAc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/mBX_DCBPOQA" height="1" width="1"/
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