Focused war plan key to getting Osama bin Laden: Obama

President Barack Obama says a tightly focused war strategy in Afghanistan will help with the hunt for the elusive Osama bin Laden.

President Barack Obama says a tightly focused war strategy in Afghanistan will help with the hunt for the elusive Osama bin Laden.

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Obama says that when he took office, the US approach in Afghanistan "was somewhat adrift." He's working to get back to the original goal, going after al-Qaida, who masterminded the September 11 attacks.

Obama tells CNN's "State of the Union" that if the focus starts to drift from that goal, "then we may have a problem." He says he knew that hunting down bin Laden was going to be hard. Bin Laden and other senior Al-Qaida leaders are presumed to be hiding across the border in Pakistan, in a mountainous region where the US-supported government in Islamabad has little control.