$30m spent on projects in south, says US mly official.Byline: Pajhwok Correspondent $30m spent on projects in south, says US mly official Pajhwok Correspondent - Jun 7, 2008 - 09:59 NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of (PAN): US-led international forces were stationed in Afghanistan to provide stability and help with the ongoing reconstruction effort, an American military commander said on Friday. Around $30 million have been spent on several projects in the volatile southern regions, where Taliban insurgents Insurgents, in U.S. history, the Republican Senators and Representatives who in 1909–10 rose against the Republican standpatters controlling Congress, to oppose the Payne-Aldrich tariff and the dictatorial power of House speaker Joseph G. Cannon. have recently stepped up attacks, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Col. Thomas J McGrath, commander of Afghanistan Regional Security Command South. "Using the reconstruction money and development money that we have, we are able to reach out to the Afghan civilians and the forces also, so that we can build better relationships with them," McGrath told Pentagon reporters. In charge of training, mentoring and advising Afghan National Army Afghan National Army (ANA) is a service branch of the Military of Afghanistan that is currently being trained by the to ultimately take the lead in land-based military operations. and Afghan National Police The Afghan National Police is the national police force in Afghanistan. It is under the responsibility of Afghanistan's Ministry of the Interior. The paramilitary police force is under development and being trained by American military police and allied forces (Germany). , McGrath said: "I'm talking things about roads and helping them farm, sending out tools and things of that nature. I also build bases -- forward operating bases An airfield used to support tactical operations without establishing full support facilities. The base may be used for an extended time period. Support by a main operating base will be required to provide backup support for a forward operating base. Also called FOB. -- and we've put about $30 million into several projects here." Fourteen forward operations bases In special operations, a base usually located in friendly territory or afloat that is established to extend command and control or communications or to provide support for training and tactical operations. were being constructed from the ground up, he said, adding: "Right now we are preparing a bundle of them for the new two-seven police mentoring mission that we have going out in the western part of my area, and also further west to one of the other regional commands." Once the bases were built, McGrath said, they would have all mentor teams out there working with the newly trained Afghan police. "We'll also have them out amongst the population, because it's two-part." The international forces, he argued, not only wanted to train the police, but also sought to show the local population they were engaged in stabilising things. "So we are going to pave roads. McGrath claimed a lot of money had been put into different forward operational bases and the Commander's Emergency Response Programmes. "I wish I had more money. I don't. But that's the way it goes, and we'll just continue to do the best that we can." lkj/mud Copyright [c] Pajhwok Afghan News. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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