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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Civilian deaths jeopardize Afghan war effort: US AFP - Wednesday, June 3 WASHINGTON (AFP) - - The general chosen to lead US and NATO forces in Afghanistan warned that the war against insurgents could be lost unless civilian casualties were reduced. ADVERTISEMENT Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal, nominated by President Barack Obama to take over as commander in Afghanistan, told a congressional hearing that civilian deaths from coalition operations risked alienating the Afghan people and undermining the entire war effort. "If defeating an insurgent formation produces popular resentment, the victory is hollow and unsustainable," McChrystal said at his confirmation hearing. "This is a critical point. It may be the critical point. This is a struggle for the support of the Afghan people. "Our willingness to operate in ways that minimize casualties or damage -- even when doing so makes our task more difficult -- is essential to our credibility." Civilian casualties -- often from US air power -- have caused mounting popular outrage in Afghanistan and friction with the Kabul government, with US and Western officials worried about handing propaganda victories to their Taliban foes. President Hamid Karzai has demanded a halt in air strikes after one of the deadliest such incidents of the war in Bala Buluk, where his government says 140 civilians died earlier this month. McChrystal, named to replace General David McKiernan as the top commander in Afghanistan, vowed to make protecting civilian lives a top priority. Success in the conflict against insurgents should be measured not in the number of enemy killed but in "the number of Afghans shielded from violence," he said. If the Senate confirms him for the post, McChrystal said he would review combat rules and tactics with the goal of preventing civilian casualties and added that more surveillance aircraft would help make US operations more "precise." McChrystal, who met with a mostly friendly reception from members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is due to take over the helm at a pivotal moment in the Afghan war after Obama unveiled a new strategy and ordered more than 21,000 additional troops to bolster the US force. As a former special operations commander, McChrystal's elite troops carried out manhunts in Iraq that won him praise. Human rights groups however say his forces lacked restraint in their interrogations of detainees. McChrystal did not face a tough grilling from senators over the issue, but acknowledged he had misgivings about harsh interrogation techniques that were approved by then-secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld. Asked if he had been "uncomfortable" with the use of dogs, stress positions, sleep deprivation and other methods in Iraq that were permitted by George W. Bush's administration, McChrystal said: "I was." He said his troops gradually reduced the use of the harsh methods over time, even though his superiors had approved such methods. The Obama administration has rejected torture or "enhanced" interrogation techniques that were introduced during Bush's presidency. McChrystal said that as commander in Afghanistan he would "strictly enforce the highest standards of detainee treatment consistent with international and US law." Echoing comments by other top officials, the general said the United States and its allies faced a long, tough struggle and that combat casualties would probably rise as more US forces deploy to the volatile south. "Success will not be quick or easy. Casualties will likely increase. We will make mistakes," he said. When asked if the war could be won, McChrystal said: "I believe it is winnable, but I don't think it will be easily winnable." US forces are due to double to 68,000 later this year, and the outgoing commander had requested an additional 10,000 troops in 2010. McChrystal said it was too early to say if yet more American forces would be required. Asked about the consequences if coalition forces lost the war, McChrystal said the country likely "would break down into civil war," serve once again as a haven for the Al-Qaeda network and sow instability in neighboring Pakistan. McChrystal was joined at the hearing by Admiral James Stavridis, nominated to be the next NATO supreme commander. 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