AMMAN – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Tuesday described the situation in Afghanistan as 'perilous and urgent' and said al Qaeda and the Taliban were planning more attacks on the United States.

'In Afghanistan and the border region of Pakistan, al Qaeda and the Taliban are mounting a growing offensive against the security of the Afghan people and increasingly the Pakistani people, while plotting new attacks against the United States,' he said during a stop in Amman, Jordan.

Obama is on a foreign fact-finding trip and visited Afghanistan over the weekend. He described Afghanistan as 'the central front in the war against terrorism'.

'I'm glad there's a growing consensus back home that we need more resources in Afghanistan. We should not wait any longer to provide them,' he said.