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Obama, McChrystal meet on Air Force One
U.S. President Barack Obama met the man heading U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, on Friday, a White House spokesman said. The meeting on board Air Force One in Copenhagen lasted 25 minutes, spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters on the plane.McChrystal flew to Denmark from London, where he met with Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Thursday, and delivered a stark assessment of the Afghanistan insurgency to military and defence experts at the International Institute of Strategic Studies. Gibbs declined to give details of the discussion between the president and McChrystal, which followed a high-level meeting on Wednesday in Washington between Obama and his top foreign policy advisers over the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan. Posted by: ryuge 2009-10-02 |
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