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| Obama expands al-Qaeda ‘secret war’ |
| Obama expands al-Qaeda ‘secret war’ to 75 nations
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 7-June-2010
10:0:38 AM |
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President Barack Obama has secretly sanctioned deployment of US special forces to 75 countries as part of a largely ‘secret war’ against al-Qaeda and other radical groups, a news report said Sunday.
It has come to light that Obama approved a huge increase in the number of US special forces carrying out search-and-destroy missions against radical groups. American troops are now operating in 75 countries compared with about 60 at the beginning of last year, the Washington Post reported. In the past 18 months he has ordered a big expansion in Yemen and the Horn of Africa — known areas of strong al-Qaeda activity — and elsewhere in West Asia, central Asia and Africa.
Obama has asked for a 5.7 per cent increase in the Special Operations budget for fiscal 2011 amounting to $6.3 billion, plus an additional sum of $3.5 billion from the 2010 contingency funding, the report said
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