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Obama plan not enough to break back of Qaeda, Taliban

Say Pak, Afghan envoys

AFP, Washington
President Barack Obama’s anti-terror escalation may not prove enough to break the back of al-Qaeda and the Taliban, the Pakistani and Afghan envoys here warned Thursday.
Both ambassadors called on the United States and its allies to provide more cash and military tools to defeat terrorism on the battlefield and alleviate the poverty and ignorance that sustains extremist ideology.
Pakistan’s Husain Haqqani welcomed the new Obama strategy, but contrasted the aid given to nations in the extremist epicentre with the multi-billion-dollar bailouts extended to US companies in distress.
'The resources that are being committed may look big to some but very frankly. I think that a company on the verge of failure is quite clearly able to get a bigger bailout than a nation that is accused of failure," he said.
'Why does .Afghanistan or Pakistan get less resources allocated to solving a bigger problem (extremism) ... than say for example some failed insurance company or some car company whose real achievement is that they couldn't make cars that they could seU?"Obama last month put Pakistan at the centre of the fight against al-Qaeda as part of a new strategy dispatching 4,000 more troops, in addition to an extra 17.000 already committed, and billions of dollars to the Afghan war.
The plan includes a focus on al-Qaeda sanctuaries in Pakistan and boosting civilian efforts to build up both Afghanistan and Pakistan, notably in agriculture and education.
Afghan ambassador Said Jawad, speaking alongside Haqqani at a forum organised by Washington's Atlantic Council think-tank, also said Obama's new strategy' marked a welcome reorganisation of US goals.
But he stressed that Afghanistan needed more help for a major expansion of its security forces, from the 134,000 army troops and 82,000 police personnel foreseen in the Obama plan.
To counter the resurgent Taliban, he
said, the Afghan anny should number at least 250,000 and the police 150,000.
"Right now you are paying with your blood anil treasure in Afghanistan by sending your sons to fight for us,” Jawad said.
"The most sustainable way is to create tills capacity in us," he said, insisting Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government was already tackling the endemic police corruption identified by foreign donors.
"The police force, the judicial system, was neglected for a very longtime," Jawad said. "We are paying a price for that right now."
Obama Thursday wrote to US lawmakers asking for an extra 83.4 billion dollars this year to pay for military efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"This funding request will ensure that the full force of the United States -- our military, intelligence, diplomatic, and economic power — arc engaged in an overall effort to defeat al-Qaeda and uproot the safe haven from which it plans and trains for attacks on the homeland and on our allies," he wrote.