nytimes.com - 10/30/2009
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SHERWANGAI, Pakistan Pakistani forces pushing toward a lair of hard-core Taliban fighters found documents this week linked to a member of the Hamburg cell of Al Qaeda that is believed to have planned the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In a small village in the dun-colored hills of South ...
tnr.com - 10/30/2009
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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 ...
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Hillary Gets Tough; Will it Work?
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commonsensewonder.blogspot.com - 10/30/2009
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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 ...
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Note to the anti war types: We weren't in Afghanistan ...
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About That Waziristan Junket
The New Republic blogs —
... between tough and not-so-tough talk about Pakistan tolerating Al Qaeda's presence, I thought this article in today's NYT --about Pakistani troops in South Waziristan finding documents belonging to a member of the Hamburg cell--was pretty curious. Not because I doubted that prominent Al Qaeda members are in in South Waziristan, but because of this paragraph: The documents were shown to reporters on a day trip organized by the army on Thursday for the news media to observe operations in the nearly two-week-old battle. South Waziristan is off limits to foreign ...
A Pakistani Connection To 9/11
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Some interesting information was found recently in connection with a raid on a Pakistani terror cell:
SHERWANGAI, Pakistan — Pakistani forces pushing toward a lair of hard-core Taliban fighters found documents this week linked to a member of the Hamburg cell of Al Qaeda that is believed to have planned the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
In a small village in the dun-colored hills of South Waziristan, soldiers found a German passport belonging to Said Bahaji, a German citizen and associate of Mohammed Atta, the leader of the 9/11 hijackers.
The ...
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