U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, talks with U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry in Kabul Monday. Photo from CNNAfghanistan Commander Sees Slow Build - Up In Kandahar -- New York Times/Reuters
KABUL (Reuters) - NATO will amass troops gradually to control the Taliban's birthplace Kandahar rather than launch one big assault as they did in nearby Helmand last month, the commander of foreign troops in Afghanistan said on Monday.
U.S. and NATO commander General Stanley McChrystal has said his next target is Kandahar, Afghanistan's second-largest city, where U.S. and NATO forces hope to retake control this year.
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