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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) â †Afghan President Hamid Karzai will meet with President Bush and top administration officials in Washington next week, his spokesman said â †a trip expected to include talks on long-term military aid and the fates of Afghans held in U.S. jails.
On the four-day trip beginning Sunday, Karzai will meet Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, spokesman Jawed Ludin said Tuesday. The Afghan president also will speak at several universities.
Karzai has said he will use the trip to press his hopes for a â Å“strategic partnershipâ ? with the United States encompassing long-term political, economic and military assistance to Afghanistan, despite a week of deadly anti-American protests at home prompted by a Newsweek report in its May 9 edition that a military probe found evidence of desecration of the Quran by U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay.
Newsweek retracted the report Monday.
On Saturday, Karzai said he would request that the United States transfer Afghans detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and military jails in Afghanistan to Afghan authorities, and he demanded more control over U.S. military operations.
In Washington, Karzai was to meet lawmakers and the new head of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, Ludin said.
Karzai, who has enjoyed strong U.S. support, will begin his visit with a speech at Boston University and end it at the University of Nebraska in Omaha. Both institutions will award the Afghan leader honorary degrees.
Precise details of his schedule were not released.
Hmmmmmmmmmm i guess all the work we do over there doesn't count and make us eligable for a visit too?
On the four-day trip beginning Sunday, Karzai will meet Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, spokesman Jawed Ludin said Tuesday. The Afghan president also will speak at several universities.
Karzai has said he will use the trip to press his hopes for a â Å“strategic partnershipâ ? with the United States encompassing long-term political, economic and military assistance to Afghanistan, despite a week of deadly anti-American protests at home prompted by a Newsweek report in its May 9 edition that a military probe found evidence of desecration of the Quran by U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay.
Newsweek retracted the report Monday.
On Saturday, Karzai said he would request that the United States transfer Afghans detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and military jails in Afghanistan to Afghan authorities, and he demanded more control over U.S. military operations.
In Washington, Karzai was to meet lawmakers and the new head of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, Ludin said.
Karzai, who has enjoyed strong U.S. support, will begin his visit with a speech at Boston University and end it at the University of Nebraska in Omaha. Both institutions will award the Afghan leader honorary degrees.
Precise details of his schedule were not released.
Hmmmmmmmmmm i guess all the work we do over there doesn't count and make us eligable for a visit too?
