[Peace-discuss] Obama's Pakistan war plans

[C. G. Estabrook]

[The "Pakistan Kick-Off" (CIC-F)?! It certainly should be possible to defeat 
this in Congress. --CGE]

	Obama to propose $2.8 bn military aid package for Pakistan

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama plans to propose spending roughly $2.8 
billion in aid for the Pakistani military, as he steps up the campaign to battle 
extremists along the Pak-Afghan border. That money would be in addition to the 
civilian aid - $ 1.5 billion a year for five years - that the US president 
called for Friday under a legislation being introduced soon by Senate Foreign 
Relations Committee chairman John Kerry.

A defence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told FOX News channel 
that the money under the new programme would be dedicated exclusively to 
“equipping, training, and building infrastructure directly related to counter 
insurgency operations.”

Gen David Petraeus in an interview on Monday said the plan would be called the 
“Pakistani Counter insurgency Capability Fund.” The money would be distributed 
over five years, with the first $400 million of it added to the fiscal year 2009 
supplemental request for war fighting. Another $700 million would be in the 
fiscal 2010 base budget. Then $575 million would be spent each year from fiscal 
2011 through 2013.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=21273