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Obama vows to exit Iraq

Rebuild US 'moral stature'

AFP, Washington
US President-elect Barack Obama vowed to pull troops out of Iraq, crush al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and shut down the Guantanamo Bay camp as part of a dramatic foreign policy break with George W Bush.
Repairing the stricken US economy will be priority number one, even at the cost of still-bigger budget deficits, Obama said in his first major post-election interview broadcast on CBS programme "60 Minutes" late Sunday.
Following his election triumph of November 4, Obama said at least one
Republican would be in his cabinet and confirmed that he had met former Democratic primary rival Hillary Clinton last week.
But the president-elect refused to comment on speculation linking the former first lady to the job of secretary of state.
The man who will be the first black US president is accelerating his transition to inauguration day, resigning his Senate seat Sunday and appointing three more top aides to serve in his White House once he succeeds Bush
As soon as that happens on January 20, Obama said. I will call in the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
my national security apparatus, and we will start executing a plan that draws down our troops" from Iraq.
"Particularly in light of the problems that we're having in Afghanistan, which has continued to worsen. We've got to shore up those efforts,” Obama said in the interview, which was taped Friday.
On the campaign trail, Obama vowed to pull one or two combat brigades out of Iraq every month until after 16 months, only a residual security force of unspecified size remains. Some of those brigades would head to Afghanistan. He told CBS that it is a top priority for us to stamp out al-Qaeda once and for all" and that killing or capturing the group’s mastermind Osama bin Laden was "critical" to US security.
Obama pledged to tackle controversial offshoots of Bush's "war on terror" - the US military's internment camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and harsh interrogations of captured terror suspects.
"I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that," the president-elect said.
"I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture. And I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part
and parcel of an effort to regain America’s moral stature in the world," Obama added.
But he did not elaborate on where the Guantanamo prisoners would be taken, whether they would be transferred to civilian custody in the United States itself, put on trial, or released.