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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai during a visit to Afghanistan thursday. The two leaders met to discuss issues like: Combating corruption in the afghan government; the U.S. military’s transition of responsibility for security to afghan forces starting next July; and civilian casualties. Gates says the U.S. military will continue to make every effort to avoid harming innocent civilians while Taliban leadership he says, has undertaken a brutal campaign against afghan civilians and assassination of afghan officials. The secretary announced that the U.S. is rewriting the rules for contracting and foreign assistance money to ensure it does not fuel corruption. Gates discussed the partnership between afghan troops and the International Security Assistance Force. Defense secretary said Afghans and ISAF units are “training together, planning together and fighting together, with Afghan forces increasingly taking the lead.
| Date Taken: | 09.03.2010 |
| Date Posted: | 09.03.2010 10:32 |
| Category: | Newscasts |
| Audio ID: | 25383 |
| Filename: | 1009/DOD_100082135.mp3 |
| Length: | 00:00:56 |
| Location: | KABUL |
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