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huffingtonpost.com - 10/30/2009
Clinton Faces Pakistani Anger At Predator Drone Attacks
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ISLAMABAD — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came face-to-face Friday with Pakistani anger over U.S. aerial drone attacks in tribal areas along the Afghan border, a strategy that U.S. officials say has succeeded in killing key terrorist leaders. In a series of public ...
Hillary Gets Tough; Will it Work?
tnr.com - 30 days ago
Hillary Gets Tough; Will it Work?
— tnr.com — This is pretty great. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed doubt Thursday over Pakistan's failure to... locate top al-Qaeda leaders in the eight years since they escaped over the border from Afghanistan, telling a group of Pakistani ... (more) Hillary Gets Tough; Will it Work?

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nytimes.com - 10/30/2009
Clinton Faces Pakistani Anger at Drone Attacks
— nytimes.com — ISLAMABAD (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came face-to-face Friday with simmering Pakistani anger... over U.S. aerial drone attacks in their country and drew back slightly from her blunt remarks suggesting Pakistani officials know ... (more) Clinton Faces Pakistani Anger at Drone Attacks

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commonsensewonder.blogspot.com - 10/30/2009
Note to the anti war types: We weren't in Afghanistan before 9/11
— commonsensewonder.blogspot.com — Passports Linked to 9/11 Found in Pakistan Friday , October 30, 2009 SHERWANGAI, Pakistan — Pakistani soldiers... battling their way into a Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border have seized passports that may be linked to 9/11 suspects, as they confront an enemy skilled in operating in a ... (more) Note to the anti war types: We weren't in Afghanistan ...

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Clinton Questioned Whether Drone Attacks are Acts of Terrorism
Open Left - Quick Hits's RSS Feed — From the AP via HuffPo: During an interview with Clinton broadcast live in Pakistan with several prominent female TV anchors, before a predominantly female audience of several hundred, one member of the audience said the Predator attacks amount to "executions without trial" for those killed. Another asked Clinton how she would define terrorism. "Is it the killing of people in drone attacks?" she asked. That woman then asked if Clinton considers drone attacks and bombings like the one that killed more than 100 civilians in the city of Peshawar ...

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