salon.com - 12/12/2008
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Dec. 12, 2008 | A consensus is emerging among intelligence analysts and pundits that Pakistan may be President-elect Barack Obama's greatest policy challenge. A base for terrorist groups, the country has a fragile new civilian government and a long history of military coups. The dramatic attack ...
longwarjournal.org - 12/10/2008
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longwarjournal.org —
Pakistan security services detained another senior Lashkar-e-Taiba operative
suspected of being involved in the Mumbai terror attack....
Zarar Shah was one of an estimated 10 to 20 Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives detained during raids on the terror ...
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Pakistan detains Lashkar-e-Taiba communications expert
longwarjournal.org - 12/16/2008
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longwarjournal.org —
One week after the United Nations Security Council
declared the Pakistan-based Jamaat-ud-Dawa charity a front group for...
the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group, the Pakistani government has taken minimal steps to clamp down on the organization. Pakistan ...
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Pakistan takes minimal steps against banned terror front
timesonline.co.uk - 12/9/2008
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timesonline.co.uk —
Google Earth ban call after Mumbai attacks |
Pakistan will not hand India any of the Lashkar-e-Taiba...
militants arrested on Sunday for their suspected role in the Mumbai terrorist attacks, but will try them under its own laws, the country's foreign ...
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Pakistan refuses to extradite Mumbai terrorists
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Cole in Salon: The Challenge of Pakistan for Obama
Informed Comment —
... My column is out at Salon.com: "Does Obama understand his biggest foreign-policy challenge? The president-elect wants to work with the Pakistani government to "stamp out" terror. It's not nearly that simple." ...
Hullabaloo —
... commitment, but: Why are we in Afghanistan, what is the desired end-state, where is the national security interest, and how can we possibly succeed? Otherwise, it becomes nothing but a resource suck. Having terrorists project power from a country where they have safe harbor is undesirable, but of course they already have that across the border in Pakistan, where the forces we're supposed to be fighting in Afghanistan are increasingly installed. Pakistan, of course, is an entirely different set of nightmares. These are complex and interconnected regional struggles, ...
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... : Official History Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders.
Also a column
by Juan Cole on Pakistan. Appreciate the foreign policy angle. ...
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