Message , purportedly from Taliban leader Mullah Omar , says U.S. faces defeat in Afghanistan . ` ` Nothing will change that even if you send more troops , '' he says . Also posted on the Afghan jihadi online magazine Al - Somod . Gen. Stanley McChrystal , the U.S. commander in Afghanistan , reportedly has called for up to 40,000 more to wage a counterinsurgency campaign against the Taliban , the Islamic militia originally ousted by U.S. military action in 2001 . President Obama set to announce U.S. troop deployment for Afghanistan on Twitter .
Message , purportedly from Taliban leader Mullah Omar , says U.S. faces defeat in Afghanistan . ` ` Nothing will change that even if you send more troops , '' he says . Also posted on the Afghan jihadi online magazine Al - Somod . President Obama set to announce U.S. troop deployment for Afghanistan on Twitter .