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US Gen David Petraeus has arrived in Afghanistan to take command of coalition forces fighting the Taliban. He replaces Gen Stanley McChrystal, who was sacked for making disparaging remarks about the Obama administration.David Petraeus will lead 140,000 foreign soldiers fighting against Taliban insurgents and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan for the last nine years. He was set to join US diplomats and guests at US embassy in Kabul -- to mark US Independence Day. He has promised to use the same counter-insurgency tactics he used in Iraq and that Gen McChrystal introduced in Afghanistan earlier this year. It is pertinent to mention that Petraeus faces an uphill task since June saw the highest number of deaths among NATO personnel in the nine years of war - 102.
