President Obama traveled secretly to Afghanistan Tuesday to mark the one-year anniversary of the military raid that killed al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden, administration officials said.
The White House kept Obama’s trip under wraps until 3 p.m. Tuesday, when the administration allowed a pool of reporters traveling with the president to report his location. Until then, the White House was vehemently denying reports out of Afghanistan that the president had landed there.
Obama, who was visiting the presidential palace around 3 p.m. on Tuesday, left for Afghanistan just after midnight. He is planning to address the American people around 7:30 p.m. from Bagram Air Base outside Kabul.
