FIELD PATROL - A coalition U.S. Army soldier assigned to Special Operations Task Force West patrols villages and fields around Mirmandab, Afghanistan, April 7, 2011. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Marcus J. QuartermanClinton Predicts Violent Spring In Afghanistan -- Washington Post
KABUL — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday warned NATO allies not to abandon Afghanistan and predicted a violent spring in the war as the Taliban attempts to regain ground lost to NATO forces over the past year.
“We have to steel ourselves and our publics for the possibility that the Taliban will resort to the most destructive and sensational attacks we have seen,” she said at a NATO summit in Berlin.
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