Afghan election workers carried ballot boxes to a truck from a mosque in Herat that had served as a polling place on Thursday. Behrouz Mehri/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesGen. McChrystal Assessing Afghan Forces -- Washington Times
Top commander working to improve local security training.
JALREZ, Afghanistan | As Afghan officials counted ballots from Thursday's key election, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan was making his way through the Jalrez Valley on Friday, conducting an on-the-ground assessment of the troubled nation.
The journey has brought Gen. Stanley McChrystal to the site of the Afghan Public Protection Program (AP3) - a pilot effort begun under his predecessor Gen. David D. McKiernan - in which Green Berets have been recruiting and training local Afghans to police their own neighborhoods since March.
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