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President Barack Obama on Friday ordered 4,000 more military troops into Afghanistan,vowing to “disrupt,dismantle and defeat” the Taliban and al-Qaida.The new troop buildup he announced is aimed principally at bolstering the Afghan army and turning up the heat on terrorists that Obama said are plotting new attacks against Americans.He called the situation in the region “increasingly perilous” more than seven years after the Taliban was removed from power in Afghanistan.“If the Afghanistan government falls to the Taliban or allows al-Qaida to go unchallenged,” Obama said, “that country will again be a base for terrorists.”With Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton,Defense Secretary Robert Gates and top intelligence and national security figures at his side,Obama announced the troop deployment,as well as plans to send hundreds of additional civilians to Afghanistan. The announcement came at the end of an extensive policy review that Obama launched on Afghan-Pakistan policy not long after taking the oath of office.The 4,000 troops come not long after the new administration approved the dispatch of an additional 17,000 forces to the war-weary nation.Obama bluntly warned that the al-Qaida terrorists who masterminded the Sept.11,2001,attacks were actively planning further attacks on the United States from safe havens in Pakistan.And he said the Afghanistan government is in peril of falling to the Islamic militants of the Taliban once again(Armytimes.com)

27-03-09 Obama:Taliban,al-Qaida must be stopped

President Barack Obama on Friday ordered 4,000 more military troops into Afghanistan,vowing to “disrupt,dismantle and defeat” the Taliban and al-Qaida.The new troop buildup he announced is aimed principally at bolstering the Afghan army and turning up the heat on terrorists that Obama said are plotting new attacks against Americans.He called the situation in the region “increasingly perilous” more than seven years after the Taliban was removed from power in Afghanistan.“If the Afghanistan government falls to the Taliban or allows al-Qaida to go unchallenged,” Obama said, “that country will again be a base for terrorists.”With Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton,Defense Secretary Robert Gates and top intelligence and national security figures at his side,Obama announced the troop deployment,as well as plans to send hundreds of additional civilians to Afghanistan. The announcement came at the end of an extensive policy review that Obama launched on Afghan-Pakistan policy not long after taking the oath of office.The 4,000 troops come not long after the new administration approved the dispatch of an additional 17,000 forces to the war-weary nation.Obama bluntly warned that the al-Qaida terrorists who masterminded the Sept.11,2001,attacks were actively planning further attacks on the United States from safe havens in Pakistan.And he said the Afghanistan government is in peril of falling to the Islamic militants of the Taliban once again(Armytimes.com)