Interesting..."Obama Makes Unannounced Visit to Afghanistan"....

Many White House officials were kept in the dark about the journey, as was the Afghan government. The president’s published schedule for Friday listed him meeting with advisers in the Oval Office and then making a public statement on the latest jobs report, with the schedule reporting that “the location of the statement is T.B.D.,” or to be determined.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/04/us/politics/04prexy.html