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8A Daily News– Wednesday, May 2, 2012 Karzai BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) — In a swift and secretive trip to the war zone, Pres- ident Barack Obama signed an agreement Tuesday night vowing long-term ties with Afghanistan after Ameri- ca's combat forces come home. ''There's a light on the horizon,'' he told U.S. troops on the one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death. Obama flies to Afghanistan, signs security pact with Seated beside Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Obama declared, ''Together, we're now committed to replacing war with peace.'' The partnership spells out the U.S. relationship with Afghanistan beyond 2014. It is limited in scope and essentially gives both sides political cover: Afghanistan is guaranteed its sovereignty and promised it won't be abandoned, while the U.S. gets to end its combat mission in the long and unpopular war but keep a foothold in the country. Obama also was to give a speech designed to reach Americans at the dinnertime hour of 7:30 p.m. EDT. That would be 4 a.m. here when Obama speaks. WORLD BRIEFING are willing to go. In the past 18 months, Castro has removed pro- hibitions on some private enterprise, legalized real estate and car sales, and allowed compatriots to hire employees, ideas that were long anathema to the government's Marxist underpinnings. Scrapping travel con- trols could be an even big- ger step, at least symboli- cally, and carries enor- mous economic, social and political risk. British re-election campaign. Nor were the two roles com- pletely distinct. Romney says Obama campaigning NEW YORK (AP) — Republican Mitt Romney said Tuesday that it was ''totally appropriate'' for President Barack Obama to claim credit for taking out Osama bin Laden a year ago but that his deci- sion to politicize a unify- ing event for the country was not. shouldn't use bin Laden's killing for America's longest war not only as commander in chief but also as an incumbent president in the early stages of a tough He flew to the site of Obama's re-election campaign has used his decision to order the U.S. military raid that ended with the 9/11 master- mind's death to suggest that Romney would not have made the same call. Romney, the president's all-but-certain Republican challenger in the fall elec- tion, says he would have made the same decision. Marking the anniver- sary at a New York City fire house that lost 11 men on Sept. 11, 2001, Rom- ney said he understood the president's desire to take credit for killing one of the world's most-want- ed men. ''It's totally appropri- ate for the president to express to the American people the view that he has that he had an impor- tant role in taking out Osama bin Laden,'' Rom- ney said after visiting the lower Manhattan fire sta- tion with Rudy Giuliani, who was mayor when ter- rorists flew planes into the World Trade Center's twin towers and killed nearly 3,000 people. ''I think politicizing it and trying to draw a dis- tinction between himself and myself was an inap- propriate use of the very important event that brought America togeth- er,'' Romney said. 5 anarchists plotted to blow up bridge near obtained what they thought was C-4 explo- sives. The material, in fact, was harmless and the public was never at risk, because the men got it from the informant, offi- cials said. — Five men described by federal authorities as anarchists angry with cor- porate America and the government were charged Tuesday with plotting to bomb an Ohio bridge linking two wealthy Cleveland suburbs. Cleveland CLEVELAND (AP) fake explosives at the base of the bridge, armed them, went to a remote spot and ''entered the codes that they thought would blow up the bridge with innocent people trav- eling over it,'' Dettelbach said. The men planted the The men were arrested Monday night after unknowingly working with an FBI informant for months, a strategy that federal investigators have used repeatedly in recent years to nab alleged ter- rorists. ''They talked about making a statement against corporate Ameri- ca and the government as some of the motivations for their actions,'' U.S. Attorney Steven Dettel- bach said in announcing the arrests with the head of the FBI in Cleveland, Stephen Anthony. The alleged plotters researched explosives and Honoring Outstanding Tehama County Students created in cooperation with the Tehama County Department of Education. Selections of students featured will be made by schools and Teachers. 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The divisive ruling Tues- day against Murdoch, his son James and three of their executives also exposed the waning influence of the media tycoon, and could jeopardize his control of a major broadcaster. Parliament's Culture, Media and Sport committee — a panel that scrutinizes the standards of Britain's press and sports authorities — began an inquiry amid disclosures about wide- spread tabloid hacking of voice mail, concerns over bribes paid to police for scoops, and politicians who may have overstepped the bounds by cozying up to key players in the Murdoch empire. Tarring the credentials of both the 81-year-old media mogul and James Murdoch, a former execu- tive chairman of News Corp.'s U.K. newspaper division, the committee's scathing words on the Mur- dochs could affect their controlling stake in British Sky Broadcasting. 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