Berntsen said that has worked because the leaders get a voice, but not executive power.
Gary Berntsen is a former field commander for the CIA who's now written a memoir.
Mr. BERNTSEN: Yeah, I wanted, you know I had asked for six to eight hundred.
Mr. GARY BERNTSEN (Former Field Commander, CIA): I was a fire fighter, actually, in a previous career.
Mr. BERNTSEN: I have thought about that and honestly, I wouldn't speak about it on the radio.
Mr. BERNTSEN: An Afghan warlord, not a member of the Northern Alliance.
Before Afghanistan, Berntsen's career took him from the Persian Gulf to East Africa to South America and he compares his job to that of a firefighter.
As the United States moves toward a strategy shift, Berntsen said the situation is best placed in the hands of Petraeus and U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke.
Gary Berntsen, who led a CIA paramilitary unit pursuing bin Laden shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks, said Pakistan is a country bin Laden knows well.
But, Berntsen said, that strategy might not work in Afghanistan.
Mr. BERNTSEN: Exactly, because there were so few of us and so many of the enemy that, you don't want to be in gun fights with people like that, you want to use air power, you want to leverage technology.
Crown Princess Mette-Marit, for instance, moved freely among mourners at a gathering in the home town of her step-brother, Trond Berntsen, who was on guard at the Labour Party youth camp on Utoya island and one of the first to be killed.
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