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Obama to send Troops to Afghanistan and Pakistan - to be Announced this Week

Thursday, March 26, 2009

In a CNN report, Obama is now expected to announce new strategies for Afghanistan and Pakistan on Friday. The plan will be for additional troops to Afghanistan along with civilian specialists, which will target what he considers "the central challenge facing (that) country."
Besides sending troops to Afghanistan, he will ask Congress to provide at least triple aid to Pakistan, during a five year period. He announced sending 4,000 more troops, adding this amount to 17,000 President Obama wants to send to Afghanistan. The main goal would be to train and build the Afghan army along with their police force. Eventual plans to increase the army's ranks to 135,000 and the police force to 80,000 by the year 2011.
President Obama is shifting the troops because he has intelligence that al Qaeda has moved their leadership from Kandahar, Afghanistan to somewhere in Pakistan. This is where he feels that al Qaeda is plotting against the U.S.
The only thing not really setup in the plan is an exit strategy. Until President Obama would know how and when his success will go forward in those occupied countries, that would determine when the troops may come home.
Durin the next week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to visit the Hague in the U.S. backed international conference on Afghanistan.

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