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Afghan president meets with tribal elders in south
 
 
  
 
 By MIRWAIS KHAN,Associated Press Writer -
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ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan – President Hamid Karzai visited volatile southern Afghanistan on Saturday to meet with scores of tribal elders, as four Italian troops were killed in an insurgent ambush in the west.
 
Gen. David Petraeus, top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, and U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry accompanied Karzai, who is expected to rally support among residents for international forces and the Afghan government.
 
More than 200 tribal leaders from around the troubled province of Kandahar assembled to see the president.
 
Afghan Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak and Turyalai Wesa, governor of Kandahar province, were among the group visiting Kandahar's restive Arghandab district. Karzai's half brother Ahmad Wali Karzai _ a key provincial power-broker _ was among the entourage.
 
Kandahar is the scene of NATO's Operation Dragon Strike, targeting the Taliban in their southern strongholds. The operation aims to rout insurgents from areas they have long controlled.
 
Karzai and the other officials visited Kandahar's famous Baba Sahib shrine on Saturday.
 
Violence continues unabated in many areas in Afghanistan, with an increase in insurgent attacks and NATO-Afghan operations now gripping the north.
 
Gen. Massimo Fogari, a spokesman for Italy's Defense Ministry, said four Italians were killed in an ambush Saturday near western Farah province and another one was wounded seriously.
 
A roadside bomb exploded as a 70-vehicle convoy passed by insurgents, and then the soldiers came under small-arms fire.
 
"Four soldiers were killed in the explosion and one was injured," Fogari told Sky Italia. "It's an ambush typical of the asymmetrical war that is being fought in Afghanistan."
 
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he was saddened "by the tragic ambush."
 
"We are grateful to all Italian soldiers who, in various missions around the world, allow our country to keep its international commitments in support of peace and against any form of terrorism," Berlusconi said in a statement.
 
The deaths brought to 24 the number of NATO forces killed this month. At least 2,012 NATO service members have died since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001, according to an Associated Press count.
 
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Associated Press writers Alessandra Rizzo in Rome and Deb Riechmann and Robert Kennedy in Kabul contributed to this report.
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
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