1.0 link 113743 <![CDATA[Obama Visits Afghanistan To Tour War Zone ]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/19/obama-visits-afghanistan_n_113743.html KABUL, Afghanistan &mdash; Barack Obama visited Saturday with U.S. troops and Afghan officials in this war-weary nation, which is the focal point of his proposed strategy for dealing with threats to the U.S. if elected president.

While officially a part of a congressional delegation on a fact-finding tour expected to take him to Iraq, Obama was traveling Saturday amid the publicity and scrutiny accorded a likely Democratic nominee for president rather than a senator from Illinois. Security was tight and media...

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