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U.S. and Pakistan: different wars on terror (The Christian Science Monitor)

 
The Christian Science Monitor - Tuesday at the United Nations President George Bush and his Pakistani counterpart, Asif Ali Zardari, reaffirmed the alliance of two nations that, in some respects, are fighting two different wars under the single banner of the war on terror. (link)

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