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The top US commander in Afghanistan has been summoned to Washington in the wake of a magazine article that mocked senior Obama administration officials and diplomats.
Gen Stanley McChrystal has apologised for the article in Rolling Stone.
In the article, Gen McChrystal said he felt betrayed by US ambassador to Kabul Karl Eikenberry.
The general’s aides mock Vice-President Joe Biden and say Gen McChrystal was “disappointed” in President Obama.
A spokesman for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm Mike Mullen said the admiral had spoken by telephone to Gen McChrystal to express his “deep disappointment” in the article.
A White House official said Gen McChrystal had “been directed to attend [Wednesday's] monthly meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan in person” rather than by teleconference.
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