al Qaeda Delivers Message to VP Cheney

A series of AP News Alerts from early this moring:

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) Officials say an explosion outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan has caused casualties but that visiting Vice President Dick Cheney "was safely within the base."

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) Afghan provincial governor says 18 to 20 people were killed in the blast outside the main U.S. base in Afghanistan, according to a report on the ground from his district chief.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) A military spokesman says one American soldier and one coalition soldier were killed in the suicide blast outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan.

al Qaeda is still a threat over in Afghanistan.