disrupt, dismantle and defeat al qaeda andts extremist ales and prevent afghastan from becoming safe haven again. you can't dothat froff shore,and you can't do tat by just killing the ba guys. you have t be there where the pele are, whenhey need you there and until they can provide for their own security. >> rner: mullen also gave thelearest indication yet the commandi general stanley mcchris toll islikely to recommend aditional u.s. forces beent. >> having heard h views and having great confence in his leadershi a properly resourced unterinsurgency probably means moreorces. >> waer: his comments immediately touched off a debate with senator armed services committee chairman carl levin saying afghan securityorces need to beefed up bere more u.s. troops are sent. >> providing the resources needs fr the ahan army and afghan police to become self-suffient would demotrate o commitment to th success of a mission that is in o national security interest. ile avoiding the risks associated wi a larger u.s. footprint. ielieve theseteps should be urgently implented before we consider a further

across kabul, afghastan, presiden karzai declared last month plus electi a victory, despitellegations of fraud. >> theesponse of the country was, hundreds of voters ca on election, but even people came there and voted. , but he d not yeteclare victory. a un.-backed investigatn has begun into massive frd. ttcould the night in first- round victory. thman who will make tt call is a canadian officl who is now re-exining hundreds of thousan of ballot papers. yo will make a jgment? >> once we cleared the colaints, yes. >> quite a respsibility? >> we do nothink about it. it i our responsibity. it is parof the electoral law their colaints to make sure at they are dealt with in a thoroh and ansparent matter. >> karzai knows thatisestern allies a dismayed and angere this raises the question, how long can coalition governments keep perading their own populations tt this sacrifice is worth it? >> the deputy commander of the african you peakeeping forces in malia has been killed a suicide attack in mogadishu. peacekeepers also died when boers packewith exploves drove in the main u.n compound. they

. >> the top american commander in afghastan calls for a search of troops to avoid failure. scaping with auspended sentence. a form frenchrime minister go on tri, chargedith plotting to discredit presiden sarkozy. coming up ler, the last night for hundreds of migrants livi illegalloutside of kelly, france, before there can is district jered rers make an unwelcome discovery in shespeare's parish church. >> hello to yo the commder in afghanista sincthe western powers are close to sing the wa stanley mcchryst says many more troopsnd a change of strategy are needed hislatest report talksrankly of corruption within e afghan gornment an an internatiol force under nht -- undermined. change, the genel says, must come witn a year. >> thewarning is stark. wiout change, and soon, nato troops are facing mission failurein afghanistan. jim mcchrystal's reports in jacks a new urgency into a cheerls milita assistance. he says cuent strategy is no longer working. there is an urgent need for significant change to r strategy. take ts mon's to air strike on hijacked will tnkers. chenowith castr

thatot only isthe security of afghastan at stake bu the secuty of pakistan is also at stake. and we nnot secure that rder region. anwe can't have the kind of ecomic delopment that was just talked about unless there is security on the ground. >> and marjorie ller in losngeles, it soundsike your paper'saiting toe convinced. your editorial today sa thpresident derves an opportunity to presentis case to the ameran public, a burdenf proof is on m to explain w the united stes still needs to be in afghanistan. so what are you looking at? whatre you looking for decide? >> well, we want to hear wh it will cost. how long it will take. we want him to aiculate clearly his goals in afghanistan. and whether there achievable. whether the msures of suess for getting there. how will we kn along the way thatwe're headed in the right direction. is it the measure of territy that we can recapture from the taliban? is it the hopefull declining number of civili casualtys? is it e number of afghan troo and security forces that can be trained to eventually take ov so that we can get out? we're in the

people have stted to mention the "v" word more and more whe they tk about afghastan. as secretary gates pointed o yesterday, the difference between iraq a ahanistan, is that afghanistan doesn't he much of a central government. it's gotuy out the who seems to be corrupt. >> and who was widely considered to be corrupt bore. they have toeal with him and focus on t population. and that's what they' talking about. bringing up vinam, clearly that what thehite house is woied about. that you keep adding tops, when do you stop? the problem is the surge in iraq was 20,30, 35,000 troops. if they put that number of trps in afghanistan they have a rl probl. gwen: mike mullen came out sterday and told you and other reporters about what he thinks the problem is and what the chges are -- challenges are going forward in afghanist. >> this is a msionhat's been underresourced aost since its inception, certainly in renalt years, and part of why it has tten more sious andas deteorated is directly td that. gwen: whatoes he mean by that? >> does he meanot enough people- i think he means the

but afghastan isn't t only ttleground in the fight agains extremistsnd terrorism. there arey tonight in pakistan and somia. all this is how we start with tonight's lead focus. intelligen officials have descrid him as one of their st wanted terr suspects, and late yesterday it was reporte that sah ali saleh nabha was killed in an atack that took placin southern somalia. naan, a kenyan with links to ringleader of the 2002 bombi of hotel in the kenyan sort of mombasa. 13 people were killed in the attack. he's also bieved to have been bend an attempt to shoot dn an israeli rliner that had taken off om the mombasa airport the same day. the rocket missed the airplane. u.s. officis say american rces were involved in yestday's raid perhaps signaling a new williness by the obama administrati to use troops iide somalia. somalia h been thecene of heavyfighting in recent mths betwee a transitional government back by the united ates and an islamic mitant group al shaba connected to al qaeda. it has also been reported that somalia has become a destination for al qda militants fl

mission in afghastan. an unclassified version of the report tt the "washington post" got, the top u. commando warns that the mission wil likely rest in failure unless troops are increased whin the year. in stark language, h called coalition forces "poorly coigured and inexperienced in cal languages and culture he propod a robus counrinsurgency strategy that emasizes protecting afghan civilians and building up the afgh government and the army. president obamis currently reviewing the report and other approach to ahanistan, appearing on the suny talk shows this weekend, he expressed new reservatns about seing re troopsefore there was a strategy. >> if sporting the afghan natial government and buildin capacity for theirrmy and securing certain provinces advances that strategy, tn we'll move foard. but if it doesn't, then i'm not interested ijust being in afanistan for the sake of being in ahanistan oraving face or in som w sending a message that america is here for the duration. i thk it'smportant thate match

the rategy review comes as the outcome of afghastan's disputed presidential elecon remains in doubt. and as public pport for the war is fling in europe and in the u.s., amid growing casualties. this year is on tracto be the deadlit yet for coalition troops, with 379 killed, including 222 americs. deaths amongfghan civilians have ao spiked. just tay, a roside bomb rippedpart a packed bus near khandahar, killing 30 cilians. ainst that backdrop, preside obama held a strategy sessio this afternoon wh vice presidt biden, secretary of state clinton, defen secretary gates and general peaeus, head of the u.s. ntral command. and we have our own ssion now withsenators carl levin, chairman of the senate arm servic committee; and saxbe chambliss of geoia, a republican on thatommittee. senator levin, it's been rerted that gen. mcchryst is telling the president that he needmore forces or the colict "will likelyesult in failure." whatould you tell the president? that it's important that we cceed. i thinmost of us bieve it shou focus first on the strategy with genera mcchrystal said repeatedly in th

to look at thi as aninsurgency rather than ju aserrorists s a jor shift in iq, it's a change in afghastan, and it's whatorked in iraq as well. we got a couple things goingor us in afghanistan which are going toreally count down the road. one ishat the afghan people hate t talib. the taliban has only a 5% support level inside of ghanistan. and secondly, e most trusted institution in iraq is their army and that army is a fighting army. these are most separated ghters and if we can dramatically irease the size of that army, we will be putting in place somethg which we ink would work. >> rose: you said iraq, i know you meant afghanista i meant afgnistan. i'm sor. >> rose: and this, the notion thate mayery well be en along with nato allies as a foreignnvader. >> that is one the rsons why we should be focusing on strengthening th afghan arm before we increase o footprint. every time we increase the otprint, yes, we give re capability. and that's iortant. but we're also increasin our vulnerability as wellbecausewe becomehe propagaa target and the acal target of the enemy thatays, look, this is n

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