mr fitzgibbon wants some of the 17 , 000 additional us troopers looking for afghanistan will bolster australian forces operating in the dangerous ghor country in the south . the defence minister was going to raised the objection directly with un home department robert gates . he has already held talks with us central command chief general israel petraeus and director of the central intelligence office ( cia ) leon panetta . general abizaid discussed the new un strategies for afghanistan and the troop surge in whose an extra 17 , 000 troopers will be placed in the southern provinces where taliban insurgents have been most active .
David Petraeus is the director of the CIA.