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Hillary visits Afghanistan
14/01/2007 09:23 - (SA)
Kabul - US senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was set to lead a bipartisan delegation to Afghanistan on Sunday for a meeting with President Hamid Karzai and a visit with American troops, officials said.
Clinton, a Democrat from New York who is considering running for president, has said she wants to see more troops in Afghanistan, without saying how many. She is traveling with US senator Evan Bayh, a Democrat from Indiana, and representative John McHugh, a Republican from upstate New York.
All three are members of armed services committees.
Clinton on Friday said she is hearing "increasingly troubling reports out of Afghanistan" and would be searching for "accurate information about the true state of affairs" militarily and politically on her trip.
During their brief stay in the country they will meet with soldiers at Bagram, the main US military base in Afghanistan, and then make a trip to Kabul for meetings with Afghan and US officials and officers in the country, said US military and US Embassy officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak on the issue.
The delegation's trip to Kabul comes a day after their Iraq visit, where Clinton expressed doubt that Iraq's government would follow through with its promises to secure Baghdad as she met with top Iraqi officials and American commanders there.
- AP
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