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<div> December 3, 2009</div>
<div /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">Vol 11, No 43</span></b></font></span></font></td></tr></table><a name="LETTER.BLOCK4" /><table style="margin-bottom:5px;" aria-posinset="0" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK4" width="100%" aria-setsize="0" border="0" hidefocus="true" tabindex="0" cellspacing="0" cols="0" cellpadding="5" aria-level="0" contenteditable="inherit" datapagesize="0">
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<div>"We welcome President Obama's commitment to the region and to Pakistan's interests," said Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to Washington, on Tuesday night. "We have to consult with all stake holders in Islamabad before we come out with a formal response".<br /></div>
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<p align="center">Pakistani News Outlets Condemn Obama's Plan</p></font></strong></td>
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<div>President Obama's speech at West Point was broadcast here on Wednesday, so coverage and comment in the Pakistani press crested on Thursday. In this nation, where sentiment is strong against America, most of the headlines were ominous. </div>
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<div>Jang, the most widely read Urdu daily, led with the headline "Approval of increasing drone strikes in Pakistan," while adding that the United States would "increase pressure on a weak Zardari government" and be "expanding covert operations."<br /></div>
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<div>Two newspapers, Express and Nawai Waqt, a popular Urdu daily with a nationalist bent, led with Mr. Obama's vow to focus on Al Qaeda inside Pakistan. In its editorial, Nawai Waqt criticized the government of President Asif Ali Zardari for its weak-kneed response to American intentions toward Pakistani nuclear weapons and warned that Pakistan had the capability of giving a befitting reply to the United States for harboring an evil eye on the country's nuclear program.The paper also claimed that the presence of American troops in Afghanistan threatened the independence and territorial integrity of Pakistan. <a track="on" shape="rect" href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102848015797&s=23764&e=001xj1QDwDuXN-I75KxMh61Rq5x-WnkYZD_PNS0NTEx4l2nFc0KceDQvTS8iw3K7Y0is_w0Z4rVm9dyVT0SRvmoC2wILvVpSH2WfyFvs84WN46DdtNsGD9Dj6iv_g1akxlZKA4IIrar3WwEGU-r2LF6W81ynuK589UWph1hgNoffY4HDekObQZGOaZGjyEwFNCybDz5mBeiD7U=" linktype="link" target="_blank">Read more here...</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table><a name="LETTER.BLOCK8" /><table style="margin-bottom:5px;" aria-posinset="0" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK8" width="100%" aria-setsize="0" border="0" hidefocus="true" tabindex="0" cellspacing="0" cols="0" cellpadding="5" aria-level="0" contenteditable="inherit" datapagesize="0">
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<div>The prospect of thousands more US troops pouring into his native Helmand province with a mission to protect the population and train security forces strikes him as absurd.<br /></div>
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<div>"People in the west are dreaming," he says. "If you ask anyone in Afghanistan what the Americans can do for the country, they will start laughing at you."<br /></div>
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<div>Hamid Karzai, Afghan president, has welcomed the pledge by Barack Obama, his </div>
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<div>For Afghans, the change in tone was unmistakable. Unlike Bush-era speeches pledging unending support, President Obama suddenly introduced a timeline and a period of 18 months before the start of a drawdown of troops. </div>
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<div>The timetable set off alarm here. It was the subject of television discussions and journalists' questions to the American ambassador, Karl W. Eikenberry, a retired lieutenant general, as well as to Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the commander of American forces here. <br /></div>
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<div>If Tuesday night was about President Obama sending a message to the American public that the war in Afghanistan would not be open-ended, then Wednesday in Kabul was about reassuring the Afghans of America's long-term commitment.<br /></div>
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<div><br />When President Obama made public his revised Afghan strategy on Tuesday night, he took a middle path between domestic critics on the right and left, offering both a surge of 30,000 additional American troops as well as a July 2011 deadline to begin drawing them back down. <br /></div>
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<div>Since then, Mrs. Clinton and other administration officials have stressed that the timing and pace of withdrawing troops would depend on conditions on the ground. Mrs. Clinton said she would offer NATO allies clarifications on the target of 2011 for the start of troop withdrawals. <a track="on" shape="rect" href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102848015797&s=23764&e=001xj1QDwDuXN-VboLcjn1lYmTtgXWyYWU6jAqYrzIGsZmZkYpus9jYIWC-C5FDQS1eAMC4-3kxHgSuOj-LhMpGwL072j63oMyhkriGQQlp9qSb6m3JZ53Dtpd1kd1otDTSViTx2I1cbA6D8fsgIscUEmpD5PDBItbP" linktype="link" target="_blank">Read more here...</a><strong> <br /></strong></div><br /></font></td></tr></table>
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<p align="center"><strong><font color="#ccff00">Ten Fears Over President Obama's Plans to Send More Troops into Afghanistan</font></strong></p></td>
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<div>1. Weather and terrain<br />U.S. forces fight on the home turf of the Taliban, who know every goat trail snaking up hardscrabble peaks rising 14,000 feet or higher. Our adversaries travel light and are used to altitudes that slow Americans down.<br /></div>
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<div>2. Enemy tactics<br />Well-funded enemies have become experts at rigging bombs that can devastate a foot patrol or even heavily armored vehicles. Suicide bombers are also a new weapon since 2005, and ambushes are mounted when superior numbers can overwhelm small U.S. units.<br /></div>
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<div>3. Collateral damage<br />The more troops entering the fight, the more air support they need. Increased air strikes - despite Herculean efforts to avoid it - often cause civilian casualties, because the enemy hides in villages and sometimes enlists women and children to aid them in battle. <a track="on" shape="rect" href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102848015797&s=23764&e=001xj1QDwDuXN_PD3katx2LUP_B3WWk720vUTBhFirvc9Y7_W0UjZG5ntZkxLA7LWoj-qvVsw18PjwUMe09_UfPnadkmrb1I_eGQxKnoI474tjjM_altHtoALt-PLQkwsVHJbLqnl40aw_PsPCz8-IontFJP03L9uNZmHUflcewgg3khgmF706rE8Rsu9tSlre7I4lV53AX4VReCQHBU5DCs_E920bY9XP-CdYGtaLqrJ3s36xiWAr1d0jogqW6AvEI" linktype="link" target="_blank">Read more here...</a><br /><br /><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table><a name="LETTER.BLOCK9" /><table style="margin-bottom:5px;" aria-posinset="0" id="content_LETTER.BLOCK9" width="100%" aria-setsize="0" border="0" hidefocus="true" tabindex="0" cellspacing="0" cols="0" cellpadding="5" aria-level="0" contenteditable="inherit" datapagesize="0">
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<div><img height="138" border="0" width="216" contenteditable="false" alt="aafia banner" src="http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/00364/gates_364802gm-a.jpg" align="right">Chairman Levin, Senator McCain and distinguished members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify on the subject of the President's newly announced strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.<br /></img></div>
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<div>The President's Tuesday evening announcement at West Point of our strategy and increased military resources for Afghanistan culminates a process of deliberate strategic review that began with the arrival of General McChrystal's interim assessment in early September. I believe this national-level review has been sober and essential. The challenges we face in Afghanistan and Pakistan are great, and our interests there are significant. This Administration needed to take the time to look at all the options and craft a balanced and sustainable approach. I believe that the review has met this aim.<br /></div>
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<div><img height="129" border="0" width="207" contenteditable="false" alt="aafia banner" src="http://www.9issues.com/wp-content/TalibanPresence72PercentOfAfghanistan.jpg" align="left">An American military official said Wednesday that the bulk of new combat forces approved by President Obama would be sent to southern Afghanistan, an area including Helmand and Kandahar Provinces that is the financial and spiritual base of the Taliban as well as the deadliest part of the country for American troops. </img></div>
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<div>Two combat brigades, one from the Marines and one from the Army, will go to the south, while another Army brigade will be sent to eastern Afghanistan, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. Army combat brigades usually comprise about 5,000 soldiers. <br /></div>
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