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To: DebtBomb who wrote (54209)	5/30/2002 7:10:50 AM
From: shoreco	Respond to of 208838

Dale, US Denies Team Planning Evacuation From India, Pakistan 05/30/2002 Dow Jones News Services (Copyright © 2002 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) NEW DELHI (AP)--The U.S. embassies in India and Pakistan, like other American diplomatic missions, have contingency plans to evacuate citizens in case of war between the nuclear-armed countries, and those plans are continually updated. But the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi denied Thursday that a team has arrived to plan the possible evacuation of hundreds of troops and thousands of civilians from India and Pakistan. "Every embassy in the world has contingency plans to evacuate American citizens in times of crisis," said Gordon Duguid, the embassy spokesman. "Is there a U.S. government team in India now planning possible evacuation? No," Duguid said, denying a report in USA Today newspaper. He also explained that Pakistan is under the U.S. Central Command of the American armed forces, and India is under the Pacific Command, so a team wouldn't come to New Delhi to coordinate evacuation of troops or civilians from Pakistan. Duguid said there had been no change in the U.S. State Department's assessment of the danger to Americans since a May 24 travel advisory that said U.S. citizens should not travel to India or Pakistan, because "the risk of intensified military hostilities cannot be ruled out." The advisory urged Americans to leave India and also mentioned the departure of some U.S. personnel from Pakistan and specific threats to Americans there because of the anti-terror campaign in neighboring Afghanistan. India and Pakistan are on war footing, with about 1 million troops along their border in the disputed region of Kashmir. India and Pakistan have fought three wars, two of them over Kashmir, since British India was partitioned into the two countries in 1947. Full Story Link... datekdj.newsalert.com