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WASHINGTON — Evidence is building that the Obama administration’s surge strategy is working in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday, citing recent assessments from the new top U.S. and NATO commander and Gates’ impressions from a recent trip to Afghan battlefields.
“I was encouraged,” Gates said, predicting that a critical year-end U.S. review of its own war plan would show that the strategy President Barack Obama put in place a year before is taking hold. The Associated Press
