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Archive Home > 2009 > October > 02 > Top commander rejects scaling down Afghan military goals

Top commander rejects scaling down Afghan military goals

By New York Times News Service / The Bulletin
October 2, 2009

LONDON " The top American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, on Thursday rejected calls for the war effort to be scaled down from defeating the Taliban insurgency to a narrower focus on hunting down al-Qaida, an option suggested by Vice President Joe Biden as part of the....

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