Official: Obama to meet Karzai on Sunday

[gateley]

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama, on a visit to Afghanistan, will spend Saturday night there, and he is expected to meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday, a U.S. official in Afghanistan told CNN. No other details were available.

The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee was visiting the southern Asian nation before he embarked on a tour of the Middle East and Europe, a trip aimed at boosting his foreign policy credentials.

The trip, which comes four months ahead of the presidential election, marks Obama’s first visit to Afghanistan. He visited Iraq in 2006.

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2008/07/19/official-obama-to-meet-karzai-on-sunday/

[Adelante]

1. I just saw video on CNNI of Barack in Kabul

Meeting with Afghani officials and US military officers.

[gateley]

3. There are a couple of raw footage videos of Obama

meeting with the troops in Political Videos. There may be a few more by now.

[IndianaGreen]

2. Correction: Obama meets with the Mayor of Kabul

Karzai only controls Kabul by the sheer force of US and NATO troops. The rest of Afghanistan is under the control of whoever is the strongest, but it is never the Afghan government.

[kentuck]

4. Think Dubya has talked with Karzai today??

Just curious? :-)

[Hippo_Tron]

6. After the Maliki comments I'd say it's an absolute certainty

[vaberella]

5. Finally, people keep saying Kuwait. ~sigh~ I think he's going to be in Iraq on Monday.