Obama marks bin Laden's death with Kabul trip

President Obama marked the first anniversary of the killing of al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden on Tuesday with a surprise trip to Afghanistan during which he delivered the election-year message that a second decade-long war was coming to a close.

“This time of war began in Afghanistan, and this is where it will end,” Obama told a prime-time television audience in the United States from Bagram Air Base outside Kabul, where it was 4 a.m. “The goal that I set to defeat al Qaeda and deny it a chance to rebuild is now within our reach.”