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US Vice President Reports Progress in Afghanistan

   VOA News 23 August 2010
   Vice  President  Joe  Biden  addresses  the  Veterans  of Foreign Wars
   national convention in Indianapolis

Photo: AP

   Vice  President  Joe  Biden  addresses  the  Veterans  of Foreign Wars
   national convention in Indianapolis, 23 Aug 2010

   U.S.  Vice President Joe Biden says U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan are
   making  what  he called "measurable progress" against al-Qaida, as the
   United States increases its military presence there.
   Speaking in the midwestern American city of Indianapolis Monday, Biden
   said  international  troops  must deny al-Qaida safe haven and reverse
   the  momentum  of  the  Taliban.   The vice president said the latest
   phase  is  "only  beginning" and promised the situation in Afghanistan
   will be reassessed in December.
   Meanwhile,  the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan
   says  four  troops  were  killed  in separate incidents in the country
   Monday.
   One  of the soldiers was Hungarian and two were French. The Associated
   Press reports the other soldier was American.
   Two  soldiers  died in an attack by insurgents in eastern Afghanistan,
   while  the  other  two  casualties  resulted from roadside bomb blasts
   elsewhere.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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