The incident comes two months after the new commander of the international forces, U.S.General Stanley McChrystal, put in place new measures to prevent civilian casualties that he says undermine an anti-terrorism war in Afghanistan.
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Supporters of President Bush are concerned that the continuing failure to screen such individuals and groups is politically dangerous, could jeopardize ongoing criminal investigations, and could undermine the anti-terrorism war effort.
They seek to eliminate or weaken anti-terrorism measures which take into account that the Cold War and its slow-moving, analog world of landlines and stationary targets is gone.