President Bush's Middle East Trip

3-2-2006

The American president George Bush confirmed that carrying out the arrest of the Al-Qaeda network leader Osama bin Laden and the Taliban leader Al Molla Omar are only time issue considering that " there a coalition he pursues who kidnapped the Islam and killed by his name ", according to his word .

Bush's speech came in a press conference that it held with the Afghan counterpart Hamid Karazai through a surprise visit that carried out it to Afghanistan at the beginning of a round for him on the south of Asia .

And Bush directed a warning to Iran saying The United States will not allow her at all the possession of the means of the development of nuclear weapons considering that that have is " the most dangerous threat he shakes the world ", but he expressed his support of the Russian efforts in reaching a solution of the Iranian issue " as a part of the diplomatic operation " .

And Bush's visit is considered this first of him to Afghanistan since the American military campaign that overthrew a regime " the Taliban " the previous in year 2001, and it has taken place under a big tightening of the security measures and that correspondents said that the American forces undertook it .

And the number of American forces reach the centralized in Afghanistan about 20 thousand soldiers, their main task the chase of gunmen " the Al-Qaeda " and " Taliban " .

It is mentioned that more than of 130 American soldiers was killed in battles in Afghanistan since the overthrow of a regime " Taliban " and that led to the arrival of president Karadayi that considers an ally close to Washington, to the rule