Site-Special- the U.S. Congress, gave President Barack Obama on funding the long-delayed increase ordered by U.S. forces in Afghanistan despite opposition from many of his fellow Democrats.
Obama tried to play down the danger of significant leakage of documents of the war in Afghanistan, saying he was concerned by this leak, but does not reveal almost nothing has not been announced before.
Obama defended his strategy of the war unpopular, saying that the leak about 91 A secret document confirms the need to adhere to the approach.
In Kabul, the Afghan government has accused the United States of ignoring Pakistan's role in the Taliban insurgency.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed its final approval to a bill to provide funding to increase U.S. forces in Afghanistan by 308 votes to 114 votes objection.
The Senate has already approved the bill, which now will be forwarded to President Obama to sign it into law. He is serving provides 33 billion dollars, mostly to fund U.S. troops in Afghanistan, but some cover expenses in Iraq. The project also includes about four billion dollars in economic aid to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
These funds come in addition to about 130 billion dollars approved by Congress by the Afghanistan and Iraq for this year. And Congress allocated more than a trillion dollars for the wars since 2001.
Alleges that the documents revealed by the organization Wikileaks on its website that U.S. troops tried to cover up the killing of civilians and U.S. officials in Afghanistan strongly suspect that Pakistan supports the Taliban, while secretly receive U.S. aid.
In his first public comment on the leak, "Obama said he stresses the need to adhere to its strategy for the war in Afghanistan.
Obama said reporters «Although I am concerned that the disclosure of confidential information from the battlefield could endanger personnel or operations, the fact is that these documents do not disclose matters that did not already disclosed by the public in our discussions on Afghanistan».
Opinion and agreed with the general, who appointed Obama to head the command, which oversees the war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Army Gen. James Mattis, to a meeting of the Senate «I have not seen the disclosure of any serious information». However, some analysts said the disclosure of such information may involve some of the damage with the White House has sought to maintain public support for the war, while setting the stage to begin withdrawing U.S. troops by the target date set by him in July 2011.
And to make Richard Holbrooke, U.S. Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, testified today before a congressional hearing and could face harsh questions from the Chairperson Nita of Levi, which said in June it would cut billions of dollars in aid to Afghanistan because of news about corruption.
The Afghan government seeking more control over the foreign aid that Washington has followed a policy involving a war by ignoring the contradictions in Pakistan's insurgency, but experts say Pakistan's relations with the United States is unlikely to be affected by the disclosure of leaked documents.
In the first reaction to the leaked documents, said the National Security Council of Afghanistan that the United States was not attacked, sponsors and supporters of the Taliban hiding in Pakistan throughout the war.
The council said in a statement «with regret ... Our allies did not show due attention to be supported foreign international terrorists ... On regional stability and global security ».
Afghanistan and to receive long blamed Pakistan for interfering in its affairs and its neighbor accuses of masterminding attacks to undermine stability. Pakistan denies that are related to the intelligence agencies and military ties with the Taliban for a long time any involvement in the insurgency and says she is the victim of militancy and insurgency movements.
(Reuters)
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