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US Afghan strategy ’not working’

Says top general

BBC ONLINE, Kabul
A top US genera] in Afghanistan has called for a revised military strategy, suggesting the current one is failing.
In a strategic assessment. Gen Stanley McChrystal said that, while the Afghan situation was serious, success was still achievable.
The report has yet not been published, but sources say Gen McChrystal sees protecting the Afghan people against the Ihliban as die top priority.
The report does not carry a direct call for increasing troop numbers.
'The situation in Afghanistan is serious. but success Is achievable and demands a revised implementation strategy, commitment and resolve, and increased unity of effort," Gen McChrystal said in the assessment.
Copies of the document have been
sent to Nato Secretary General laap de I loop Scheffer and US Defence Secretary Robert Gates.
The report came as further results from last week's presidential election were expected to be released, at 1230 GMT. President Hamid Karzai is leading so far.
The independent Electoral Complaints Commission says that of more than 2,100 allegations of wrongdoing during voting and vote-counting. 618 have been deemed serious enough to affect the election's outcome, if proven.
The general's blunt assessment will say that the Afghan people are undergo ing a crisis of confidence because the war against the Taliban has not made their lives bettor, says BBC North America editor Mark Mardell.
Gen McChrystal says the aim should
be for Afghan forces to take the lead but their army will not be ready to do that for three years and it will take much longer for the police.
And he will warn that villages have to be taken from the Taliban and held, not merely taken.
Gen McChrystal also wants more engagement with theThliban fighters and he believes that 60% of the problem would go away if they could be found jobs.
More than 30,000 extra US troops have been sent to Afghanistan since President Barack Obama ordered reinforcements in May - almost doubling his country's contingent and increasing the Western total to about 100,000.
This report does not mention increasing troop numbers - that is for another report later in the year - but the hints are all there, our correspondent says.