Afghan war far from over - US

IRAN: I don’t think the war (in Afghanistan) is over. I don’t think the loss of bin Laden will cause us to change our strategy,” Major General John Campbell, the commander of US-led NATO forces in eastern Afghanistan, said on Tuesday.

Campbell also claimed that bin Laden’s death could spur more attacks on US soldiers in Afghanistan.

The remarks come less than two months before the timeline Washington had announced for the “limited” drawdown of its troops nearly a decade after the occupation of Afghanistan.

The US invaded Afghanistan in 2001 with the aim of toppling the Taliban government, claiming the militants had refused to hand over bin Laden.

According to US media reports, many US lawmakers now insist that the time for a US withdrawal from Afghanistan has arrived, arguing that the main aim of the US troop deployment to Afghanistan was to kill or capture bin Laden.

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