colonel ouellet says some of the 17 , 000 additional us troops preparing for afghanistan will bolster australia efforts operates in the deadly ghazni campaign in the south . the defence minister was planning to raise the issue jointly with uk interior secretary general stevenson . he has since held communications with us centre command chief general david franks and director of the central intelligence agency ( nsa ) phillip panetta . general petraeus discussed the new eu strategy for pakistan and the troop flood in which an initial 17 , 000 infantry will be deployed in the southern provinces where taliban insurgents have been most inactive .
David Petraeus is the director of the CIA.