In Terrorism Policy Speech, Obama Threatens to Send U.S. Troops to Pakistan

WASHINGTON -- As commander-in-chief, White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) would sponsor a U.S. strike in Pakistan to attack terrorists, sending a tough message to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf that if he does not act an Obama administration would.

Obama made the threat in outlining his most extensive, specific program yet to combat terrorism and to restore the U.S. image in Muslim nations in a speech to be delivered Wednesday morning in Washington. In an indirect reference to chief rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) over directly negotiating with leaders of rogue states -- Clinton said last week she did not want to hand a "propaganda" opportunity to these leaders -- Obama, according to a fact sheet distributed in advance of the speech, is "not afraid that he'd lose a public relations battle against a dictator."

Obama, whose father and step-father were Muslim, and who has said his unique multi-cultural background will help the U.S. diplomatically, said he would make a speech at a major Islamic venue within the first 100 days in the White House. Obama, the subject or rumors that he attended a radical madrasas while living in Indonesia -- he did not -- called for the U.S. to create a $2 billion fund to provide schools and shut down a student pipeline to "radical Muslim madrasas."

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