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POIANA BRASOV, Romania (Oct. 13) - France and Germany rejected any merger of the NATO and U.S-led missions in Afghanistan on Wednesday after Washington urged the alliance to study taking command of all military operations there.
NATO officials and others played down talk of a new rift between countries who clashed over the U.S.-led Iraq war, saying the demand was nothing new and its aim simply to improve ties between two forces which at present barely cross paths.
But Paris and Berlin made clear they would tolerate no step to blend NATO's current peacekeeping and security duties with the more hazardous tasks of the U.S.-led Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) force, engaged in fighting a violent insurgency.
