Taliban 'very aggressive,' top U.S. general says

WASHINGTON - Taliban militants are moving beyond their traditional strongholds, forcing a shift in U.S. troop deployments, the top U.S. general in Afghanistan said in an interview published Monday in The Wall Street Journal.
"We've got to stop their momentum, stop their initiative," Gen. Stanley McChrystal, speaking from his office in Kabul, told the Journal.
The Taliban is "a very aggressive enemy right now ," he said.McChrystal is preparing an interim assessment that is expected to be a sober accounting of the difficulties of fighting......more