U.S. Officials Pay Rare Visit
From Times Wire Reports
The U.S. government paid its first official visit to Afghanistan in more than two years, sending three people to assess devastation caused by war and drought, U.N. officials said.
Peter Morris and George Haven of the State Department and Tom Husaek of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, are visiting with the World Food Program.
The U.S. is a proponent of sanctions against the ruling Taliban militia but has given Afghanistan 75,000 tons of food this year, the WFP said.
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