President Obama to Hold Ninth Afghanistan Strategy Meeting

Fox News has learned that President Obama will be holding a meeting with his National Security Team today to discuss the War in Afghanistan. An aide tells me: "It is late tonight, usual suspects attending. I don't anticipate a readout."

This will be his ninth meeting with this group on the way forward in Afghanistan. We've been reporting that he would hold this type of meeting before publicly announcing his strategy decision. We've also reported that the President is not expected to announce his new strategy before Thanksgiving.

Here's an update from the White House, just before 10a:

Tonight, the President will meet with his national security team on Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Situation Room. This meeting is closed press. Expected attendees include:

Vice President Biden

Secretary of State Clinton

Secretary of Defense Gates

Ambassador Susan Rice, Permanent U.S. Representative to the United Nations

Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg

Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan

Under Secretary of Defense Michele Flournoy

Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

General James E. Cartwright, USMC, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

General David Petraeus, U.S. Central Command

General Stanley McChrystal, U.S. Commander in Afghanistan (via videoconference)

Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan (via videoconference)

Anne Patterson, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan (via videoconference)

General James Jones, National Security Advisory

Tom Donilon, Deputy National Security Advisor

John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security

Lieutenant General Douglas Lute, Special Assistant to the President for Afghanistan and Pakistan