Gates changes commanders in Afghanistan
DEBKAfile Special Report
May 11, 2009, 11:03 PM (GMT+02:00)
New commander Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal
US defense Secretary Robert Gates has asked for the top US commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David McKiernan to resign and recommended he be replaced by a former Special Operations officer in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal.
Western military experts have long been critical of US and British war strategy in Afghanistan. Taliban and al Qaeda manage are rapidly moving in on large stretches of the country, while US and UK units are too slow and cumbersome to cut them off.
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Netanyahu, Mubarak discuss Iran, at odds on Palestinians
DEBKAfile Special Report
May 11, 2009, 10:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli and Egyptian leaders at Sharm el Sheikh
The one-and-a-half hour conversation between Israeli prime minister and Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak Sharm el-Sheikh Monday, May 11, focused on the urgency of a common Israeli-Arab strategy for dealing with Iran and its allies in view of the Obama administration's policy of rapprochement with Tehran. Their brief statements later dealt only with their differing approaches to the Palestinian issue - not their conclusions on Iran.
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