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FILE - Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009 file photo, U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry looks on during a memorial service to honor members of the Afghan National Security Forces who lost their lives in service to Afghanistan in Kabul. Eikenberry has objected strongly to emerging plans to send tens of thousands of additional forces to Afghanistan, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009. Eikenberry is a former US Army general who once commanded troops in the country and resigned his Army commission to take the job as U.S. ambassador in Kabul earlier this year.