Breaking: Obama fuggs them up again lands in Afghanistan - will address Americans at 7.30pm tonight [View all]

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303916904577378080052874406.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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President Barack Obama arrived unannounced in Afghanistan Tuesday to mark the anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces in a raid he ordered one year ago on the al Qaeda leader's compound in Pakistan.

The trip is the White House's latest effort to commemorate what the president's advisers see as his crowning national security achievement. It wasn't publicly announced for security reasons and comes at a time of fresh scrutiny of the decadelong war in Afghanistan following a series of incidents this year that have strained relations between the U.S. and the Afghan government led by President Hamid Karzai.

Quran burnings at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan in February set off a wave of deadly protests and prompted an apology from Mr. Obama. Weeks later a 38-year-old U.S. Army staff sergeant was accused of shooting to death 16 Afghan civilians, most of them women and children. And last month photographs depicting U.S. troops posing with the bodies of dead Afghans were publicly circulated, reminiscent of images released in January showing U.S. troops urinating on Afghan corpses.

Mr. Obama faces political pressure from a war-weary public as he runs for re-election this November, while Mr. Karzai has come under pressure of his own as the U.S. presence in Afghanistan verges on 11 years. At the same time, efforts by the administration and the Obama campaign to mark the anniversary of the bin Laden raid have brought charges from Republicans that the president and his aides are inappropriately using the anniversary for political gain.