Kabul, December 02: In a lengthy videoconference call on today, President Barack Obama shared his new US strategy for Afghanistan with President Hamid Karzai, spending an hour discussing troops levels, security, political and economic elements of his revised war plan.
Obama called Karzai ahead of his planned speech Tuesday night at the US Military Academy at West Point, New York, a spokesman for Karzai’s office said.
The Afghan president’s office declined to disclose details about their conversation, but a close confidant of Karzai’s, who was with the president following the call, said Karzai was happy with the discussion. The confidant spoke anonymously because it was a private discussion.
In Washington, a senior administration official told The Associated Press that Obama is sending about 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan to be deployed over six months.
–Agencies