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Obama 'to expand drone strikes' in Pakistan
Press
TV
Friday, Dec 4th, 2009
The administration of the Nobel peace laureate,
President Barack Obama, has authorized an expansion of drone
attacks on Pakistan's troubled tribal regions, a new report
says.
The New York Times report also says US and Pakistani officials
are discussing the possibility of CIA operated drone strikes
in Pakistan's Baluchistan province for the first time.
The purported aim of the American air strikes is to target
militants. But Pakistani media outlets say the raids have mostly
killed civilians.
The unpopular strikes were initiated under the George W Bush
administration in 2006.
Use of drones has increased since the Nobel peace laureate,
Obama, became president.
Obama has repeatedly vowed to expand the controversial strikes
that have raised anti-US sentiments across Pakistan.
The development also comes as Obama has announced his intention
to deploy 33,000 more troops to Afghanistan and his top commander
in Afghanistan says that Washington is not planning an early
exit from Afghanistan.
Although nearly 110,000 foreign troops are present in Afghanistan
after more than eight years of US-led invasion, they have not
been able to establish stability in the war-ravaged country.
Obama's decision to send more troops to Afghanistan was condemned
by Democratic congressman Dennis Kucinich.
"The war is a threat to our national security. We'll spend
over $100 billion next year to bomb a nation of poor people
while we reenergize the Taliban, destabilize Pakistan, deplete
our army and put more of our soldiers' lives on the line,"
the Ohio congressman said in a statement.
"When the people find they can vote themselves
money, that will herald the end of the republic."
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