news.bbc.co.uk - 3/26/2009
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At least 10 people have been killed in a suicide bombing in north-western Pakistan, local officials say. About 20 people were also reported to have been injured in the explosion at a restaurant in the town of Jandola in South Waziristan. Officials said a group of militants opposed to Pakistan's ...
tnr.com - 3/31/2009
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tnr.com —
When the Obama administration announced the results of
its review of Afghanistan and Pakistan policies on Friday,...
reporters quizzing the review's authors seemed confused. They wondered whether the recommendations announced by the president amounted to ...
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No Place to Hide
timesonline.co.uk - 4/2/2009
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timesonline.co.uk —
This grainy footage appears to show a 17-year-old
girl being beaten by Islamic radicals in Pakistan s...
northwestern region of Swat, where Sharia law was introduced after the government reached a truce with the Taleban in February. A local Taleban ...
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Video: radicals beat girl, 17, in Islamic stronghold of ...
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Suicide Bombings in Iraq and Pakistan
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts —
Via the BBC: Deadly car bomb blast in Baghdad
At least 16 people have been killed and more than 30 injured in a car bomb blast in northern Baghdad, Iraqi officials say.
They say the bomb went off near a bus stop in the capital’s Shaab district, a mainly Shia area.
Via the BBC: Deadly Pakistan restaurant blast
At least 10 people have been killed in a suicide bombing in north-western Pakistan, local officials say.
About 20 people were also reported to have been injured in the explosion at a ...
Taliban Terrorist Targets Washington
Pajamas Media —
... to sew his own burial shroud. Those targeted under his command allegedly include a former head of state (Benizir Bhutto), pro-government tribal leaders , and Pakistani police, army, air force, and intelligence agency officials. Cloistered, elusive and, until recently, unknown to most of the world, Mehsud’s photograph on the ...
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mahablog.com 4/24/2009 — I apologize for writing short posts the past couple of days. I’m kind of swamped right now.
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longwarjournal.org 5/12/2009 — The US has conducted another airstrike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan. Eight Taliban fighters are said to have been killed in the second strike in South Waziristan in three day.
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