Sound Off: Obama Announces Pact, Time Table for Troops Withdrawal

President Barack Obama marked the 1-year anniversary of the death of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden Tuesday by making a surprise visit to war-torn Afghanistan to make a big announcement.

Obama shared his time table for U.S. troops withdrawal, and signed a pact with Afghan President Hamid Karzai that spells out the United States' relationship with Afghanistan after American troops leave in 2014.

Afghanistan will retain its sovereignty and the United States will be able to end its combat mission in the country but promises not to abandon it going forward, reports The Boston Globe.

Shortly after Obama's televised speech though, the Taliban sent its own message to the president by launching an attack nearby that killed eight people, including some school children, and injured 17 others, according to The Sydney Morning Herald

"This delivers a message to President Obama that he is not welcome in Afghanistan," the Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told reporters in Afghanistan, stated an article on the Australian news site. "When he is in Afghanistan, we want him to hear the sound of explosions. Afghanistan does not want his imposed strategy."

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