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Obama Outside 10 Downing Street: "I Pledge More US Troops & to Forge Strong Links with the UK"

by Christina 123 | July 26, 2008 at 02:35 am

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Obama attempts to forge strong links with the UK.

Standing outside No. 10 Downing Street, Barack Obama also affirms his pledge of more US troops in Afghanistan in BBC videos:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7526905.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7526714.stm

Was Obama's European trip a hig back home? Jack Izzard in Washington airs his views.

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More than 200,000 people turned out to hear him speak in the German capital.

Newspaper headlines proclaimed "Obamamania" and compared him to John F Kennedy.

Not bad for a junior senator from Illinois - but not surprising either.

Surveys suggest three out of four Germans want him to be the next US president.

But this tour was never about winning over Europeans or charming Middle Eastern leaders.

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GORDON Brown has met US presidential hopeful Barack Obama today. Speaking outside 10 Downing Street after his meeting with the PM, Mr Obama said he had expressed gratitude for Great Britain’s assistance on issues such as Afghanistan
Last night the hopeful made a low-key arrival at Heathrow — and was immediately whisked away to sleep.
Looking relaxed, Mr Obama emerged from a plane emblazoned with the words: “Change we can believe in”.