longwarjournal.org - 11/22/2008
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Rashid Rauf. Click to view.
Today's early morning airstrike by unmanned US Predator aircraft in Pakistan's Taliban-run North Waziristan tribal agency is said to have killed senior al Qaeda operative Rashid Rauf and another al Qaeda leader, according to unconfirmed reports ...
americanprogress.org - 11/18/2008
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Advancing a New Strategy for Prosperity and Stability
in Pakistan and the Region By Caroline Wadhams ,...
Brian Katulis , Lawrence J. Korb , Colin Cookman | November 17, 2008 Download the full report (pdf) Pakistan lies at the nexus of one the world's ...
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Partnership for Progress
reuters.com - 11/21/2008
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani soldiers practiced shooting at
pilotless "drone" aircraft Friday, the military said a day...
after the government lodged a protest with the U.S. ambassador over drone missile strikes in Pakistani territory. Anti-aircraft ...
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Pakistan army practices shooting drone aircraft
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/20/2008
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
Ross Douthat forecasts Barack Obama’s political strategy :
Even with the GOP brand in the toilet, Republicans...
are still trusted as much or more than Dems on foreign policy, mostly for somewhat nebulous “toughness” reasons. So ...
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A Big Difference
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Bill Roggio: Al Qaeda operative Rashid Rauf reported killed in North Waziristan strike
Victory Caucus -- All Content —
... Saturday, 22 November 2008 Reports are unconfirmed. Rauf is one of the architects of the failed 2006 London airline plot. His family is active in Pakistan's jihadi community. He escaped from Pakistani custody in December 2007. read ...
Lawfare in Londonistan
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Over the weekend, the U.S. special operations teams of Task Force 88 took another shot at al Qaeda's network operating inside Pakistan's tribal areas. The target of the Predator strike was Rashid Rauf, the man behind the failed bombing in 2006 of London airlines. The plan was for al Qaeda operatives to mix binary liquid explosives and detonate them on about a dozen planes while in mid-flight over the Atlantic. Pakistani intelligence claimed Rauf was killed, but this hasn't been confirmed. ...
The Strange Death of Britain’s Most Wanted Terrorist
Pajamas Media —
... blow up transatlantic airliners, has been killed by a U.S. drone in Waziristan, Pakistan. The news comes as a surprise. What is not surprising is that the 27-year-old British terrorist of Pakistani descent was hiding in the tribal areas of northwestern Pakistan. Or that he was killed by a Predator drone carrying hellfire missiles launched from a U.S. base in Afghanistan and guided by technicians in Nevada. (There have been 24 such drone attacks aimed at terrorists in the region since August 31 .) What’s surprising is that it was the Americans who got him. Before his death last ...
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