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• July 20, 2008: Sen. Barack Obama walks along with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the Presidential Palace in Kabul. Obama began his first-ever visit to Afghanistan as part of an official congressional delegation that landed in Kabul. Obama also arranged to visit Jordan, Israel, Germany, France and England, traveling aboard a jet chartered by his presidential campaign, before his return to the United States.
• July 18: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.
• July 18: Sen. Barack Obama shakes hands with U.S. troops when he visited Camp Arifjan, the main U.S. military base in Kuwait and a major gateway for U.S. soldiers moving into and out of Iraq.
• July 18: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shakes the hand of a service members boarding a C-130 aircraft during the Congressional Delegation's camp tour of Kuwait.
• July 18: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., listens as Maj. Gen. Charles A Anderson, deputy commanding general, U.S. Army Central Command explains the differences between Humvee's at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.
• July 18: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., sits in the passenger seat of a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle during an exhibit at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.
• July 18: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., signs memorabilia for service members at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.
• July 18: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., waves as he leaves the gym after talking to service members at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.