Meanwhile, U.S. troop levels in Iraq will remain at about 160, 000 through early 2008, Lt Gen.
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Lt Gen Nick Carter said the insurgency tended to be at its "highest tempo" in the summer months.
Senegalese Lt Gen Babacar Gaye joined a UN convoy to Beirut on Saturday.
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Much of this is the work of Lt Gen Simon Mayall, Britain's defence senior adviser to the Middle East, appointed in 2011.
He also held meetings with Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, the country's army chief, and Lt Gen Ahmad Shuja Pasha, director-general of the ISI intelligence agency.
The US Marine Corps last year had to publicly upbraid Lt Gen James Mattis after he cheerfully admitted on a panel discussion that he enjoyed war.
Earlier Lt Gen Sir Robert Fry, deputy chief of the defence staff in the run-up to the war, said the UK's role in the March 2003 invasion was crucial.
Mr Gates, who arrived in Baghdad on an unannounced visit on Wednesday, met the commander of US military forces in Iraq, Lt Gen Lloyd Austin, before holding talks with Iraqi leaders.
The deputy commander of the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf), Lt Gen Nick Carter, said he was worried about "the rate of attrition that the Afghan forces are having to cope with presently".
The orders were later withdrawn in the face of opposition from two top security officials at the time - chief-of-staff Lt Gen Gabi Ashkenazi and the head of the intelligence service, Mossad, Meir Dagan.
Back in the capital, I remarked to Lt Gen Nick Carter, the senior British general and deputy commander of all Nato's forces in Afghanistan, that despite its bustling street life the city seemed edgier and more dangerous than when I had first visited in 2003.
In his most famous case, he defended former Vice-President Lt-Gen Christon Tembo and others who were charged in 1989 with plotting to overthrow Kenneth Kaunda.
The chief of staff, Lt-Gen Moshe Yaalon, disclosed in a recent interview that the army, which had been targeting Mr Shehada for months, had eventually decided to ease its own restrictions so that his wife's presence alongside him would no longer constitute a reason not to bomb him.
The meeting was chaired by Lt-Gen Lazarus Sumbeiywo, the special envoy of the IGAD peace process in Sudan with assistance of the IGAD sub-committee's envoys, namely His Excellency Muhammad Umaro of Eritrea, HE Murad Musa of Ethiopia, HE Francis Butagaria of Uganda, observers from Italy, the United Kingdom, Norway and the United States of America.
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