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BRUSSELS, July 1 (UPI) -- U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, Thursday briefed NATO officials in Brussels, NATO said.
Petraeus met with NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and huddled with North Atlantic Treaty Organization ambassadors just days after he was unanimously confirmed to his new post by the Senate succeeding Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Voice of America said.
Petraeus, who commanded U.S. forces in Iraq in 2007, will command a force of about 140,000 U.S. and NATO soldiers in Afghanistan.
He faces the daunting task of implementing a counterinsurgency war strategy targeting the Taliban while reducing civilian casualties in an effort to win over the civilian population despite a seemingly corrupt and dysfunctional Afghan government, analysts told VOA.
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