Washington, May 19 (AFP) US President Barack Obama will visit Central Intelligence Agency headquarters Friday to honour the entire US clandestine community's work in hunting down Osama bin Laden, the White House said.
Obama will head to CIA's Langley, Virginia headquarters to thank agents "for the work they do every day to keep America safe and specifically for their excellent work in tracking down Osama bin Laden," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters yesterday aboard Air Force One.
He said Obama made the decision to visit the CIA "in the wake of the successful bin Laden mission," in which elite US commandos whisked into Pakistan by helicopter in the dead of night and killed the Al-Qaeda terror kingpin on May 2, ending the most elaborate manhunt in history.
"So this was a presidential decision that he wanted to make this trip," Carney added.