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Setting a date for the start of a US withdrawal from Afghanistan conveys "a sense of urgency" to Kabul that American forces would not stay indefinitely, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has said.
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National security adviser James Jones said Sunday that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden still spends some time inside Afghanistan. Most recent U.S. estimates have placed bin Laden inside Pakistan.
Last week's congressional hearing over the security mistakes that allowed a publicity hungry Virginia couple into a White House dinner put a spotlight on persistent fears among African-Americans for President Obama's safety.
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Transcript of the December 6, 2009 broadcast of NBC's "Meet the Press," featuring Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates, John McCain, Bob Woodward and Tom Friedman.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — National security adviser James Jones said Sunday that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden still spends some time inside Afghanistan. Most recent U.S. estimates have placed bin Laden inside Pakistan. But Jones, a retired general, said the best estimate is that bin Laden "is somewhere in North Waziristan, sometimes on the Pakistani side of the border, sometimes on the Afghan side of ...
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States has not had good intelligence on the whereabouts of terrorist Osama bin Laden in years.
President Barack Obama's order to surge 30,000 troops into Afghanistan presents the US military with a giant logistical challenge as it faces some of the most forbidding terrain in the world.
When US Captain Andy Gray and his specialist rescue team heard a helicopter was missing in the Afghan mountains, adrenaline kicked in and the pilots raced into action.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Americans should expect a significant U.S. military presence in...
WASHINGTON (AP) — National security adviser James Jones said today that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden still spends some time inside Afghanistan.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the U.S. hasn't had intelligence on Usama bin Laden in years, but National Security Adviser Jim Jones speculates he is in North Waziristan and freely crossing the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
He downplays the July 2011 withdrawal date.
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The U.S. still does not know the location of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said to expect a significant presence in Afghanistan for two to four years more.
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