Taxation for Islamization. via Pentagon to Reimburse Pakistan $688 Million – NYTimes.com.
The Pentagon quietly notified Congress
this month that it would reimburse Pakistan nearly $700 million for the
cost of stationing 140,000 troops on the border with Afghanistan, an
effort to normalize support for the Pakistani military after nearly two
years of crises and mutual retaliation.
The biggest proponent of putting foreign
aid and military reimbursements to Pakistan on a steady footing is the
man President Barack Obama is leaning toward naming as secretary of
state: Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts.
Mr. Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has
frequently served as an envoy to Pakistan, including after the killing
of Osama bin Laden, and was a co-author of a law that authorized five years and about $7.5 billion of nonmilitary assistance to Pakistan.
The United States also provides about $2 billion in annual security assistance, roughly half of which goes to reimburse Pakistan for conducting military operations to fight terrorism.
Until now, many of these reimbursements,
called coalition support funds, have been held up, in part because of
disputes with Pakistan over the Bin Laden raid, the operations of the
C.I.A., and its decision to block supply lines into Afghanistan last
year.
The $688 million payment — the first since this summer, covering food, ammunition and other expenses from June through November 2011 — has caused barely a ripple of protest since it was sent to Capitol Hill on Dec. 7.
Thanks is large part to a corrupt and complicit media.
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