news.yahoo.com - 11/22/2008
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AFP/File Al-Qaeda militant Rashid Rauf, seen here in 2006, was killed in a US missile attack in northwest Pakistan.(AFP/File/Farooq
longwarjournal.org - 11/22/2008
americanprogress.org - 11/18/2008
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americanprogress.org —
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 ...
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Another AQ plotter bites the dust
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... The Pakistanis may not like the Predator attacks in the lawless frontier territories, but the US continues to prove their effectiveness. They scored a big hit this morning when a drone-launched missile killed Rashid Rauf , the al-Qaeda plotter behind the failed 2006 transatlantic bombing attack. The bombing also killed another wanted senior AQ figure: The alleged Al-Qaeda mastermind of a 2006 transatlantic airplane bombing plot was killed in a US missile attack in northwest Pakistan early Saturday, officials said. Rashid Rauf died when a missile hit a tribesman’s house in ...
Two Fewer At Breakfast
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... Terror plot mastermind killed by US missile in Pakistan: officials This morning, as a cross-border missile strike reportedly hits its mark : ISLAMABAD (AFP) – The alleged Al-Qaeda mastermind of a 2006 transatlantic airplane bombing plot was killed in a US missile attack in northwest Pakistan early Saturday, officials said. Rashid Rauf died when a missile hit a tribesman’s house in the village of Alikhel, part of a border district known as a stronghold for Al-Qaeda and the Taliban militants . Also among the five killed in the early morning incident was Egyptian Abu ...
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