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To: Richnorth who wrote (86650)	6/8/2002 12:22:46 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116836

but the India / Pakistan problems are far from over: Bush Orders Military To Draw Up Pak War Contingency Plans CNNTelegraph Group Limited 2002. 6-7-2 US military commanders have been ordered to draw up contingency plans for the protection of American forces in Pakistan in case of war with India, the top US general said today. "We've asked both the Central Command, General (Tommy) Franks, and the Pacific Command, Admiral (Thomas) Fargo, to look at force protection conditions and develop contingency plans," Air Force General Richard Myers said. Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the situation on the border, where a million troops on both sides are massed, remained about the same as it has been in past several weeks. "If fighting broke out you'd have to have plans for what you're going to do," he said. "The fighting hasn't broke out yet, other than the normal shelling that has been going on along the line of control. People are still doing the same roles and missions that they were sent there to do before the tensions arose," he said. About 1,100 US troops are at three bases in Pakistan to support US military operations in neighboring Afghanistan. Myers also said he was unaware of any plans for US troops to patrol the line of control separating Indian and Pakistani forces in Kashmir. It was reported that US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was expected to propose a plan for US and possibly British troops to patrol the line of control during a visit next week to India and Pakistan. Myers said he was (cont) telegraph.co.uk.