Gates, at a news conference with Mr. Karzai later in the day, displayed some friction with Richard C. Holbrooke, the United States special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, who said Thursday at a forum at Harvard that almost every family of the southern Pashtun tribes in Afghanistan had someone involved with the Taliban movement. |
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