Across Asia: Afghanistan
January 28, 2007
Pelosi visits US troops
Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the US House of Representatives, ate breakfast with soldiers from California yesterday and met briefly with top military leaders at the largest US base in Afghanistan, an official said.
Pelosi and her congressional delegation stopped at the US base in Bagram for about an hour, where she thanked soldiers from the 10th Mountain and 82nd Airborne divisions for their service, said Leutenent Colonel David Accetta, a US military spokesman.
Pelosi and her delegation later met with President Hamid Karzai and US Ambassador Ronald Neumann.
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