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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Obama makes Pakistan center of Al-Qaeda war AFP - Saturday, March 28 WASHINGTON (AFP) - - President Barack Obama on Friday warned that Al-Qaeda is a "cancer" that could devour nuclear-armed Pakistan, as he unveiled a sweeping new strategy for the "increasingly perilous" Afghan war. ADVERTISEMENT Obama vowed to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat" Osama bin Laden's group, which he said was plotting deadly new assaults and made Pakistan the epicenter of the new US approach, more than seven years after the September 11 attacks. He said he would plunge 4,000 more US troops into the unfinished war, triple US aid to Pakistan to 7.5 billion dollars over five years, attempt to peel away more moderate Taliban factions and lead a global civilian surge to Afghanistan. The president candidly spelled out expectations of the United States, its allies and Pakistan, raising the stakes in a war that is killing more Americans than Iraq and reaping a rising civilian toll. "Multiple intelligence estimates have warned that Al-Qaeda is actively planning attacks on the US homeland from its safe-haven in Pakistan," Obama said in a sober televised speech. "We have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat Al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan and to prevent their return to either country in the future," he said as he released results of a 60-day policy review. "That is a cause that could not be more just. And to the terrorists who oppose us, my message is the same: we will defeat you." Flanked by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Obama backed a Senate bill to triple US aid to Pakistan's democratic government to 1.5 billion dollars a year over five years. "Make no mistake, Al-Qaeda and its extremist allies are a cancer that risks killing Pakistan from within," he said, hours after a suicide bomb at a mosque in Pakistan killed more than 50 people and wounded 50 more. But he warned Pakistan must play a more active role in eliminating the terrorists on its soil. "After years of mixed results, we will not and cannot provide a blank check. "Pakistan must demonstrate its commitment to rooting out Al Qaida and the violent extremists within its borders. "We will insist that action be taken, one way or another, when we have intelligence about high-level terrorist targets." Earlier, following reports that more US missile strikes on Pakistan militant targets could be part of the US tactics, Pakistan's foreign ministry asked Washington to reconsider. "Pakistans concerns in this regard have been conveyed to the US government at the highest level," foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Basit said. On Afghanistan, there was little of the rhetoric seen in the previous Bush administration that foresaw the country as a democratic bastion. "We will shift the emphasis of our mission to training and increasing the size of Afghan security forces so that they can eventually take the lead in securing their country," Obama said. "That's how we will prepare Afghans to take responsibility for their security and how we will, ultimately, be able to bring our own troops home." The 4,000 extra US troops -- on top of the 17,000 already authorized by the president -- will partner Afghan security forces. Obama also called on US global partners to join his push to send more civilian and development workers to Afghanistan, and warned that he would not turn a "blind eye" to corruption in the Afghan government . He said the strategy establishes clear benchmarks to judge the effort by the United States and its allies in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Officials also said they expected to secure pledges for additional military help in Afghanistan when Obama presents the strategy at the NATO alliance annual summit on the France-Germany border. Said Jawad, Afghanistan's ambassador to Washington, said Kabul was "very grateful" to the Obama administration for "this new strategy for victory ." "The Afghan government is committed to working with the US and our allies to implement this strategy," he said in a statement. Pakistan's ambassador to Washington, Husain Haqqani, said it was an "extraordinarily positive" sign that Obama was re-examining US policy in the region. He said Pakistan was "especially pleased" about Obama's personal commitment to "reinvigorating our common efforts to contain terrorism and extremism." 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