Afghanistan War News Updates -- December 7, 2009

US troops firing in Cop Cherokee base in Kherwar district in Logar province, Afghanistan. Photograph: Nikola Solic/Reuters

McChrystal's Afghanistan Plan Stays Mainly Intact -- Washington Post

When he finishes testifying on Capitol Hill this week, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, will return to Kabul to implement a war strategy that is largely unchanged after a three-month-long White House review of the conflict.

In interviews and congressional testimony last week, members of President Obama's national security team said the U.S. effort in Afghanistan would be more focused and limited. "A good part of the debate and the discussion," Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told the House Armed Services Committee, revolved around ways to "narrow the mission."

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More News On Afghanistan

No Firm Plans for a US Exit in Afghanistan
-- New York Times
Afghan Withdrawal to Be Gradual -- Wall Street Journal

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