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A man fleeing the offensive in South Waziristan being checked by soldiers in Dera Ismail Khan.
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tnr.com - 29 days ago
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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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Arrogant US Misses the Message From Pakistan’s People
Antiwar.com Original —
... for terrorists who wish to invade the West, blow it up with nuclear weapons obtained from Pakistani stocks, and establish a new global terrorist caliphate amidst the ruins. It is unknown whether Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, visiting Pakistan this week, shares so alarmed a view, but she will hear a lot about the damage American pressures are doing to Pakistan and how fearful the Pakistani populace is, not of the Taliban and al-Qaeda, but of the United States. According to a New York Times ...
Tomgram: Afghanistan as a Bailout State
TomDispatch —
... Dreazen and Anand Gopal of the Wall Street Journal, now "one of the most dangerous provinces" in the country. Similarly, the Taliban insurgency, once largely restricted to the Pashtun south, has recently spread fiercely to the west and north. At the same time, neighboring Pakistan is an increasingly destabilized country amid war in its tribal borderlands, a terror campaign spreading throughout the country, escalating American drone attacks, and increasingly testy relations between American officials and the Pakistani government and ...
Too Big to Fail?
Antiwar.com Original —
... Dreazen and Anand Gopal of the Wall Street Journal , now “one of the most dangerous provinces” in the country. Similarly, the Taliban insurgency, once largely restricted to the Pashtun south, has recently spread fiercely to the west and north. At the same time, neighboring Pakistan is an increasingly destabilized country amid war in its tribal borderlands, a terror campaign spreading throughout the country, escalating American drone attacks, and increasingly testy relations between American officials and the Pakistani government ...
Too Big to Fail? Why All the President's Afghan Options Are Bad Ones
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... Dreazen and Anand Gopal of the Wall Street Journal , now "one of the most dangerous provinces" in the country. Similarly, the Taliban insurgency, once largely restricted to the Pashtun south, has recently spread fiercely to the west and north. At the same time, neighboring Pakistan is an increasingly destabilized country amid war in its tribal borderlands, a terror campaign spreading throughout the country, escalating American drone attacks, and increasingly testy relations between American officials and the Pakistani government ...
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tnr.com 29 days ago — No sooner had I finished praising her tough talk in Pakistan than she began walking it back .
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Clinton arrives in Pakistan for talks —
CNN.com - Politics 10/28/2009
The U.S. secretary of state arrived Wednesday in nuclear-armed Pakistan, a country hit hard by terrorism, economic crisis and rising sentiment that it is paying too high a price for its partnership with the United States in fighting extremists.
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Hillary Clinton in Pakistan —
First Read 10/28/2009
From NBC's Andrea Mitchell ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was welcomed to Pakistan by a car bomb explosion in Peshawar -- as well as word of the latest terror attacks in Afghanistan.
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