Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:16 PM GMT
By Andrew Grey
RIYADH (Reuters) - U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday he was sympathetic to commanders' request for more troops in Afghanistan and would look at several options with top military advisers in Washington.
Any significant rise in U.S. forces battling Taliban insurgents would add strain to a military stretched by the war in Iraq, where U.S. troop levels are to increase by more than 20,000....
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