Stig Östlund

söndag, mars 28, 2010

Unannounced visit

President Obama made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan onSunday, his first visit as commander in chief to the site of the war he inherited and has stamped as his own. Air Force One landed at nighttime at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan after a 13-hour nonstop flight for a visit shrouded in secrecy for security reasons; Mr. Obama quicklyboarded a helicopter for the trip to Kabul, landing at the presidential palace for talks with President Hamid Karzai. White House officials disclosed no information about the trip until Mr. Obama's plane had landed in Afghanistan./N Y Times

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