The US will provide $4.9 million in assistance to families displaced by the conflict in the northern areas, the US embassy has said in a statement.Ten percent of that's a hefty bit of jack, but there's even more where that came from...
Told you the other day that this was coming ...
"With this latest effort, we stand ready to continue assisting the people of the NWFP by working alongside the Pakistani and provincial governments as well as the international community," the statement quoted US Ambassador Anne Patterson as saying.