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http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=80775US approves bill of $1.5 bln non-military aid to Pakistan
Updated at: 1850 PST, Wednesday, June 17, 2009
by Sami Abraham
WASHINGTON: The unanimous approval of Enhanced partnership with Pakistan act of 2009 (bill s-962) by the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, here on Tuesday, has brought Pakistan another step closer to receive the annual non-military economic assistance of $ 1.5 billion for next five years.
Senator John Kerry, Chairman of US Senate Foreign Relations Committee hailed the measure as a "strong bipartisan effort" to help people of Pakistan and said that anti-Taliban military offensive has given hope in the context of curbing militancy and fostering peace in the area. He said it is very critical that US provide required assistance to Pakistan, immediately, and millions of displaced people are brought back to their homes safely.
Senator Kerry and Senator Lugar also urged the US senate to pass the bill as soon as possible.
The US House of Representatives has already approved, last Thursday, a Bill HR1463 to tripple the developmental economic assistance to Pakistan (making it $ 1.5 billion annually) for the next five years. Though the US House dropped, controversial specific demands to access Dr A.Q. Khan and prevention of future terrorist attacks against India, it still puts it as a condition that Islamabad would have to provide “access to Pakistani nationals” connected to proliferation networks” and prevent future terrorists attacks into neighboring countries”.
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HMMMM!... I WONDER who in the House insisted on getting those pieces dropped from that bill! Something else to hide?
And a Greta Van Susteren interview with old UN nemesis John Bolton earlier yesterday, where Bolton looks to tie Mousavi with the AQ Kahn nuclear arms network...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526823,00.htmlPrelude to a Revolution
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
This is a rush transcript from "On the Record," June 16, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Well, it's big, tens of thousands, and it is violent, the protests in Iran. We haven't seen anything like this in Iran since the 1979 revolution. Protesters yelling that the presidential election was rigged and the government is lying in saying Ahmadinejad won 63 percent of the vote. And then after explosive public outrage, the ayatollah is now calling for an inquiry, and the Guardian Council says it will conduct a partial recount. Partial recount? Well, that's not satisfying Ahmadinejad's opponents. They are demanding a new election.
Meanwhile, what about the U.S.? What should we do? Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton joins us. Nice to see you, Ambassador.
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VAN SUSTEREN: Well, Mousavi -- I was doing a little research. When he ran for president in the early 1980s, that apparently, there were a thousand of his opponents who were executed right before his election. So it's not exactly -- I mean, I'm not so sure that we have a real grip on what we're getting, even if there is a revolution.
BOLTON: Well, he was the Ayatollah Khomeini's prime minister. I mean, let's get started there. So that qualifies him. He is the person who negotiated with A.Q. Khan to set up the beginnings of the Islamic revolution's nuclear weapons program. He's fully committed to Iranian terrorism, a lot of it began under his administration. So whatever changes there might be inside Iran, make no mistake, the foreign policy would remain essentially the same.
VAN SUSTEREN: And if the viewers have forgotten, A.Q. Khan is a Pakistani who is -- who is the godfather of nuclear weapons in Pakistan and who is thought to have been also the Wal-Mart of nuclear weapons...
BOLTON: The great entrepreneur, exactly.
VAN SUSTEREN: ... with North Korea, spreading technology to North Korea. What should the United States be doing at this point?
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Hmm... Perhaps even more reasons why Sibel Edmonds is nervous right now on her blog about the way the corporate media is manipulating the stories coming out of Iran on this election... I sense another scheme going on under the covers too, as she does from what Bolton is saying here...
And that's not all! Another "usual suspect" who's been active on this issue recently is none other than the notorious AIPAC drone congress critter, Jane Harman! Now she's spoken strongly (probably on the above mentioned bill) to have parts of this bill retained to have a condition that Pakistan take action against AQ Kahn in it too... It sounds like from the other article that this language replaced some earlier more extensive planks on dealing with AQ Kahn, though its hard to tell just by looking at this article. Hmmmm... There's something that we're not being told going on behind the scenes here I think!
http://www.rttnews.com/Content/Policy.aspx?Id=982843US Policy News
Link Aid To Pakistan To Non-Proliferation: Congresswoman
6/18/2009 5:42 AM ET
(RTTNews) - A prominent American lawmaker has insisted that any further aid to Pakistan should be linked to its commitment to non-proliferation as also action against its disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadir Khan, who has been shielded from the U.S. despite pumping billions of dollars in aid to Islamabad, reports indicate.
"Pakistan has 60 to 100 nukes. It also harbors A.Q. Khan, a Pakistani hero but an international outlaw, who, at least according to the Dutch, stole European technology to give Pakistan the bomb... and created a network which supplied--we know this--Iran, North Korea (with nuclear materials and know-how) and was going to supply Libya," Congresswoman Jane Harman said.
The Democratic law-maker from California, along with Howard Berman, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, authored a bill passed by the House of Representatives last week that imposes strict restrictions on Pakistan to obtain American aid.
"As for my bill... it says that in order for Pakistan to get non-military aid and military aid in 2010, our President has to certify that efforts are being taken by the Pakistani government to stop proliferation," Harman said.
Other articles on this:
http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20090617_1434.phphttp://www.indianexpress.com/news/Aid-to-Pak-must-be-linked-to-non-proliferation--US-Lawmaker/477284http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/105782