KARZAI MAY CANCEL U.S. OFFENSIVE IN KANDAHAR

"The president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai... threatened to delay or even cancel... Nato’s planned summer offensive against the Taliban in the southern province of Kandahar, as more than 10,000 American troops pour in for the fight. Karzai threatened to delay or even cancel the operation — one of the biggest of the nine-year war — after being confronted in Kandahar by elders who said it would bring strife, not security, to his home province... On the streets of the city this weekend there appeared to be little or no support for a Nato push in the province. .."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7094217.ece