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US suspends some Pakistan military aid
The United States is holding back some military aid to Pakistain, President Barack B.O.Obama's chief of staff confirmed Sunday, after a New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... report said $800 million was being withheld. "They've taken some steps that have given us reason to pause on some of the aid which we're giving to the military, and we're trying to work through that," William Daley told ABC's "This Week with Ace newshound Christiane Amanpour." US Secretary of State  Hillary Clinton... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry Clay... had warned last month that the United States could slow down US military aid to Pakistain unless it took unspecified steps to help the United States. There has been increasing pressure in Washington on the B.O. regime Washington, which provided $2.7 billion in security assistance last year to Islamabad, to hold back on aid. Growing concerns over collusion with beturbanned goon groups since it emerged in early May that al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who no longer has to waste time and energy breathing... was hiding out in a garrison city near Islamabad has been compounded by recent accusations that Pakistain's intelligence services approved a journalist's killing. According to The New York Times, about $800 million in military aid and equipment, or over one-third of the more than $2 billion in annual US security assistance to Pakistain, could be affected by the suspension. Asked by ABC about the report, Daley did not dispute the figures and confirmed that some military aid was now being withheld. "The truth of the matter is, our relationship with Pakistain is very complicated," he said. "Obviously there's still a lot of pain that the political system in Pakistain is feeling by virtue of the raid that we did to get Osama bin Laden. Something that the president felt strongly about. We have no regrets over. "The Pak relationship is difficult, but it must be made to work over time. But until we get through these difficulties, we'll hold back some of the money that the American taxpayers have committed to give." The New York Times said the suspended aid included about $300 million to reimburse Pakistain for some of the costs of deploying more than 100,000 soldiers along the Afghan border, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars in training assistance and military hardware. Posted by: Fred 2011-07-11 |
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