Richard Holbrooke in Critical Condition After Surgery

Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke, 69, is in critical condition after a surgery to repair a tear in his aorta.

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley says doctors completed the surgery this morning, and that he is being joined by his family at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C.

According to Democratic sources, Ambassador Holbrooke, Secretary Clinton's top aide for the region, gasped and was clearly undergoing a medical situation when he became ill yesterday. He is said to have walked out of her office on his own power and was tended to by medical personnel at the State Department before being transported to the Hospital. Continue ►