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Article: Gates sees no need to change command structure in southern Afghanistan
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- February 7, 2008
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Gates sees no need to change command structure in southern
Afghanistan
VILNIUS, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- There is no need for the United
States to take over command in southern Afghanistan, said U.S.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday.
"I have thought about the command structures from the American
standpoint and I have decided not to make any changes," Gates tolda
press conference at an informal meeting of NATO defense ministers in
Vilnius.
"We've had a very good British commander and now we have a
verygood Canadian commander. I see absolutely no reason to change
those arrangements," he said.
He added that a U.S. takeover in the south of Afghanistan is not
realistic any time soon.
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