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Afghanistan is doing good job, its help to people,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,]]> http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entires/daalder_nato_ministerial/ Mon Jul 13, 2009 Patrick has posted a new comment
Hi, States people of the Web.&:)

It's good to hear thing's are going so well in Afghanistan.

I hope General McChrystal has a successful Mission there.

I know Afghanistan's people will feel better with a well trained security force working for them.

Have A Good Week Cya :)]]> http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/entires/daalder_nato_ministerial/ Sun Jun 14, 2009 Eric has posted a new comment
"Iran is playing a bit of double game in Afghanistan," he told reporters at NATO headquarters in Brussels at the end of two days of talks with his allied counterparts.

"They are an important trading partner for Afghanistan, they profess to have warm relations with the Afghan government," he noted.

"At the same time, they're sending in a relatively modest level of weapons and capabilities to attack ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) and coalition forces.

"They're trying to do what they can to hurt us and hurt our allies and partners in Afghanistan, which also ends up hurting the Afghan people,"

- Sec. Def. Robert Gates, June 12th

Source: - AFP

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@ Ambassador Daalder,

First off, I'd like to wish Gen. McCrystal much success and "good hunting".

Secondly, we just don't make accusations like this without hard evidence to back it up with, and this has been an ongoing problem since Mr. Rumsfeld's time in office.

I wish I could have been a fly on the wall in this ministerial to hear what others had to say about this, and the silence from our European partners has been publicly deafening on this issue to date in my observation of press reporting.

So what does NATO/ISAF intend to do about this?

And as a follow-up, what will Pakistan ultimately do about it?

Thanks, and if there's a link to Sec. Gates full remarks, perhaps you could post that as well.

Best Regards,

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