Top US general visits troops in Afghanistan
The top US and NATO commander in Afghanistan crisscrossed the country on Saturday, visiting coalition troops on Christmas at some of the main battle fronts in a show of appreciation and support in the tenth year of the war against the Taliban.
Gen. David Petraeus started his Christmas visit by traveling by helicopter from the capital, Kabul, to the northern province of Kunduz, telling troops with the US Army's 1-87, 10th Mountain Division that on this day, there was "no place that (he) would rather be than here" where the "focus of our effort" was. (AP)
