US success in Afghanistan 'will not be quick'

A top US general has warned that military success in Afghanistan is likely to be slower than in Iraq after the troop surge there.

Testifying before the US Congress, Gen David Petraeus said, as in Iraq, the situation in Afghanistan was "likely to get harder before it gets easier".
Gen Petraeus was speaking a week after President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
The general said he supported the announced increase in forces.
Gen Petraeus, who oversaw the troop surge in Iraq in 2007, said Afghanistan was in no worse condition now than Iraq was then.
He said success in Afghanistan was attainable, but warned that "achieving progress... will be hard and the progress there likely will be slower in developing than was the progress achieved in Iraq".