KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, May 30 (UPI) -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a surprise trip to Afghanistan Monday to visit with Canadian soldiers.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Harper traveled from Kandahar to a military base in Sperwan Ghar in Afghanistan's western region. He toured the Tarnak Farms area, where the first four Canadian casualties occurred in 2002 in a friendly fire incident. Once a Taliban stronghold, it is now a productive agricultural region that is benefiting from millions of dollars in Canadian aid, the CBC said.