washingtonpost.com - 12/2/2008
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Pakistani Armed Forces Articles Three Taliban militants among 11 killed in Pakistan: Report (Times of India) 12/14/2008 11:12:42 AM "I read the last news announcing the victory on the eve of December 16, 1971" -- Aly Zaker (Daily Star, Bangladesh) 12/13/2008 4:03:00 PM Attacks expose weakness of ...
longwarjournal.org - 12/10/2008
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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
timesonline.co.uk - 12/9/2008
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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
atimes.com - 12/9/2008
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Militants strike as Pakistan cracks down By Syed
Saleem Shahzad KARACHI - Pakistan is taking action against...
the banned militant group Laskhar-e-Taiba (LET), which has been linked to the attacks in Mumbai in India last month in which nearly 200 people ...
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Mumbai: Tortured Confessions and The Justification For War
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... WITH EACH passing day, suspicions of a Pakistani link to the slaughter of 174 people, including six Americans, in Mumbai grow stronger -- and more plausible. A captured terrorist has reportedly confessed to Indian officials that he received training in Pakistan from Lashkar-i-Taiba, a guerrilla organization that was nurtured by Pakistani military intelligence to fight India in the disputed Kashmir region. ...
The Trouble in Afghanistan
Swampland —
... What I've witnessed in Kandahar since late 2002 has amounted to an invasion by proxy, with the Pakistani military once again using the Taliban to gain a foothold in Afghanistan. The only reason this invasion has made progress is the appalling behavior of Afghan officials. Why would anyone defend officials who pillage them? If the Taliban gouge out the eyes of people they accuse of colluding with the Afghan government, as they did recently in Kandahar, while the government treats those same citizens like rubbish, why should anyone take the risk that allegiance to Kabul entails? ...
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longwarjournal.org 12/1/2008 — A senior Pakistani military official called two senior Taliban leaders "patriots," signaling a shift in posture against the Taliban in the Northwest Frontier Province. The Mumbai terror siege and India's reaction may lead the Army to negotiate peace ...
US Predator strikes in North Waziristan
longwarjournal.org 12/15/2008 —
Map of the tribal areas and the Northwest Frontier Province. The government signed peace agreements in the red agencies/ districts (the military said Shangla was under Taliban control in October); purple districts are under de facto ...
US strike in South Waziristan kills 7
longwarjournal.org 12/11/2008 —
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Mumbai Attacks Planned in Pakistan
outsidethebeltway.com 2/13/2009 — Yesterday Pakistan acknowledged what the Indians have been saying all along, that the terrorist attacks in Mumbai last November were planned in Pakistan and executed by Pakistanis with the assistance of the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group:
ISLAMABAD, ...
Partnership for Progress
americanprogress.org 11/18/2008 — 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 ...
Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives directly linked to Mumbai
longwarjournal.org 12/31/2008 — A Lashkar-e-Taiba leader in Pakistani custody admitted to his role in last month's terror assault in the Indian city of Mumbai, Pakistani sources told The Wall Street Journal . The confession comes as the US and UK provided recording of another ...
The Pakistani Monster
antiwar.com 3/7/2009 — Excerpt: The tempestuous relationship between the United States and Pakistan is akin to a sordid soap opera featuring a fickle, selfish lover and her unpredictable mistress prone to volatile tantrums.
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Christian Science Monitor | Commentary 12/2/2008
Readers write about how the US should respond to Pakistani terrorist attacks in India, whether a stimulus package for the US economy should include more spending, the unique voice of columnist Mel Maddocks, and the end of junk mail.
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