President Barack Obama has ordered an interagency review to examine U.S. policy on Afghanistan and Pakistan before a NATO summit in April, Reuters quoted the White House as saying today. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer who is now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington would head the review. Riedel would look at both military and non-military aspects of U.S. policy in the region and would report directly to Obama and his national security adviser, Jim Jones, Gibbs told reporters aboard a flight to Florida with Obama. He said the panel would be co-chaired by Richard Holbrooke, Obama's newly named special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Michele Flournoy, co-founder of the Center for a New American Security, who was confirmed yesterday as undersecretary of Defense for policy.
