tnr.com - 10/29/2009
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On July 25, Najibullah Zazi, a lanky man in his mid-twenties, walked into the Beauty Supply Warehouse in Aurora, Colorado, a suburb of Denver. The visit was captured on a store video camera. Wearing a baseball cap and pushing a shopping cart, Zazi appeared to be just another suburban guy. Of ...
google.com - 10/28/2009
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(AFP) 21 hours ago UNITED NATIONS US drone
strikes against suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan could...
be breaking international laws against summary executions, the UN's top investigator of such crimes said. "The problem with the United ...
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AFP: US drone strikes may break international law: UN
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?
abcnews.go.com - 10/29/2009
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OxBlog —
... between these two continues to be one of a strong bond, particularly among the top leaders, Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden continues to swear allegiance to Mullah Omar on a periodic basis. If you look at these two, what's remarkable about their relationship is not friction, but that, for 13 years, they have hung together. Now they think they are on the verge of victory in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They're not going to break apart now.And here is Peter Bergen, also a longtime Bin Laden watcher, Today, at the leadership level, ...
Feingold’s fantasy
The Moderate Voice —
... two continues to be one of a strong bond, particularly among the top leaders, Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden.
Bin Laden continues to swear allegiance to Mullah Omar on a periodic basis. If you look at these two, what’s remarkable about their relationship is not friction, but that, for 13 years, they have hung together. Now they think they are on the verge of victory in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They’re not going to break apart now.
And here is Peter Bergen, also a longtime Bin Laden watcher,
Today, at the leadership ...
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