KABUL (Reuters) - The commander of Western forces in Afghanistan hand-delivered a request for more troops to U.S. and NATO commanders at a meeting in Germany, his spokesman said on Saturday.
General Stanley McChrystal gave his long-awaited request for more troops to U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen and NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Admiral James Stavridis, said spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Tadd Sholtis.
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