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Credit: Reuters/Michaela Rehle MARJAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai made an unannounced visit to the southern town of Marjah on Sunday, promising angry elders that he will rebuild the former Taliban stronghold after a massive NATO operation. World NATO forces say persuading villagers in Marjah to back Karzai's government is the ultimate aim of what has been billed as the biggest offensive of the 8-year-old war and the first test of U.S. President Barack Obama's 30,000-troop "surge." "Today I'm here to listen to you and to hear your problems," Karzai told a gathering of about 300 local elders assembled on rugs in a mosque near the town's main bazaar. During two hours of talks, the elders complained -- shouting at times -- about looted shops, house searches, civilian casualties, arrests and Western forces using schools as bases. Karzai promised to provide security, open schools and build roads and clinics. When he asked the gathering, "Will you support me?," elders raised their hands and shouted, "We are with you." "I had the opportunity to meet people and talk to them. At the same time, it's a source of sadness that they have suffered from the Afghan government and foreigners," Karzai later told reporters. "The promises we have made of security and reconstruction, we will fulfill them." He was joined at the meeting by U.S. General Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. and NATO forces, which have seized most of Marjah in operation Mushtarak, which began last month and has been described as the war's single biggest offensive so far. McChrystal sat on the floor during the meeting, listening to Karzai through an interpreter, but did not speak. McChrystal's forces have so far focused on Helmand, and say their next target will be neighboring Kandahar, provinces in the south that have been the Taliban's traditional heartland. But while NATO is focusing on the south, fighters have been expanding their influence in other parts of the country. Provincial officials in Baghlan in the north said on Sunday there had been clashes over the last 24 hours between fighters from rival insurgent groups: the main Taliban faction and Hezb-i-Islami -- an Islamist group usually allied to them. General Abdul Kabir, police chief of Baghlan province, said 35 Hezb-i-Islami fighters and 15 Taliban members had died in the fighting, over control of villages in the area. There was no independent confirmation of the death toll, and combat casualties are routinely exaggerated in Afghanistan. A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said he was unaware of the clashes. A man calling himself a Hezb-i-Islami commander, Mirwais, said none of the group's fighters had died. OPIUM-GROWING HEARTLAND Marjah, a fertile warren of desert canals in Helmand's opium-growing heartland, was billed as the last big Taliban stronghold in the country's most violent province. Thousands of U.S. Marines flooded into the town last month, joined by about 1,500 Afghan troops, while thousands of British troops conducted assaults to seize areas on its outskirts. Some fighters may still be in the area. A rocket or mortar fell about four km (1.5 miles) from where Karzai was to appear before he arrived, but did not explode and no one was hurt, said Dawud Ahmadi, spokesman for the Helmand provincial governor. A Taliban spokesman, Qari Mohammad Yousuf, said by telephone from an undisclosed location that militants had fired rockets at a delegation that included Karzai. A NATO official in Kabul also said there had been a rocket or mortar strike in the town with no explosion, and no one was hurt. Karzai, who has ruled Afghanistan since the Taliban were ousted in 2001, has survived numerous assassination attempts. NATO troops say the president played a more important role in approving and planning the offensive than he has in the past. The stated aim of the offensive was to bring an Afghan "government in a box" to Marjah, extending the reach of Karzai's government to an area where it previously had no authority. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited the area on Saturday, but had returned to Britain by Sunday. 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