 | | "And we have it on good authority that Mullah Omar's pee-pee is only that big!" |
Dick Cheney, the US vice-president, will go to Afghanistan for the first session of its new parliament next week and also make stops in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Oman, all allies in the US war on terror. Cheney's office said in a statement on Friday: "The vice -president will represent the United States at the opening session of Afghanistan's new, democratically elected parliament." He will also meet Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, and visit US troops.
Cheney will be among other foreign dignitaries attending the landmark session of Afghanistan's first elected parliament since the 1970s. His visit comes after elections in Iraq on 15 December that were viewed by the White House as another step towards democracy in that country and the region. |