Tuesday, January 5, 2010

FOXNews.com - The Other Terror War: Pentagon Eyes Foreign Aid to Fight Al Qaeda

FOXNews.com - The Other Terror War: Pentagon Eyes Foreign Aid to Fight Al Qaeda: "The Obama administration, facing a growing terrorist threat out of Yemen, is turning to a counterterror tool that for the past four years has allowed the United States to battle extremism in dozens of countries outside the official war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan: cold, hard cash.
The Pentagon since 2006 has budgeted more than $1 billion to train and equip foreign militaries and security forces through a program known in Congress as 'Section 1206.'"