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| Obama to send 30,000 more troops, |
| Obama to send 30,000 more troops, seek Afghan exit
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 2-December-2009
4:53:14 AM |
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US President Barack Obama on Wednesday unveiled a radical Af-Pak policy announcing a 30,000 troops surge and a plan to start exiting Afghanistan after 18 months, even as he voiced alarm over Pakistan's nuclear weapons falling into the hands of al-Qaeda.
Obama, who outlined a tough approach towards al-Qaeda and other extremists groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan, said America's security was at stake in the two countries.
"I have determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional 30,000 US troops to Afghanistan. After 18 months, our troops will begin to come home," he said.
In his much anticipated Af-Pak policy speech at the elite West Point Military Academy in New York, Obama said that the 30,000 additional troops will be deployed in the first part of 2010. This, he said, will be the fastest pace possible so that they can target the insurgency and secure key population centres
Describing Pak-Afghan border as the "epicentre of the violent extremism practised by al-Qaeda", the US President said, "it is from here that we were attacked on 9/11, and it is from here that new attacks are being plotted as I speak."
"The people and governments of both Afghanistan and Pakistan are endangered. And the stakes are even higher within a nuclear-armed Pakistan, because we know that al-Qaeda and other extremists seek nuclear weapons, and we have every reason to believe that they would use them," he said.
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