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Rob Wittman: “As a bottom line up front, it is ISAF's assessment that the momentum achieved by the Taliban in Afghanistan since 2005…”

On the recordApril 16, 2013
As a bottom line up front, it is ISAF's assessment that the momentum achieved by the Taliban in Afghanistan since 2005 has been arrested in much of the country and reversed in a number of important areas.
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Rob Wittman
Republican · Virginia

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Wittman references General Petraeus's assessment on Taliban momentum in Afghanistan.

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