Obama Meets in Afghanistan with President Karzai

World | July 20, 2008, Sunday // 00:00
Obama Meets in Afghanistan with President Karzai: Obama Meets in Afghanistan with President Karzai US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is on a foreign tour that is hoped to answer Republican criticism he does not have the experience needed to be commander-in-chief of the US armed forces. File photo

US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday where he met President Hamid Karzai.

As part of a congressional delegation, Obama had lunch with Karzai in the heavily guarded presidential palace.

Obama has previously criticised Karzai over his policy, but said the purpose of this trip was to listen rather than deliver strong messages.

"I think the Karzai government has not gotten out of the bunker and helped to organise Afghanistan, and the government, the judiciary, police forces, in ways that would give people confidence. So there are a lot of problems there," Obama had said in an interview with CNN.

The Illinois senator is scheduled also to visit Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Germany, France and Britain on a foreign tour that is hoped to answer Republican criticism he does not have the experience needed to be commander-in-chief of the US armed forces.

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