President Hamid Karzai visited southern Afghanistan on Saturday to meet tribal elders, and NATO announced four service members were killed by insurgents in the west. Gen. David Petraeus, top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, and U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry accompanied Karzai, who is expected to rally residents to support the international forces and the Afghan government. Afghan Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak and Turyalai Wesa, governor of Kandahar province, were also among the group visiting Kandahar's restive Arghandab district. More than 200 tribal leaders assembled to see Karzai. Meanwhile, four NATO troops were killed in an insurgent attack Saturday in western Afghanistan, the Associated Press reported.
