thenational.ae - 12/4/2008
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Tony Karon Like a football defender who holds up his arms to show the ref that he had nothing to do with the opposing striker crashing to the turf, Pakistan's government plaintively urged India to refrain from blaming it for the Mumbai massacre. Of course, the defender is often innocent as ...
tomdispatch.com - 12/4/2008
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tomdispatch.com —
[ Note for Readers: To listen to a
TomDispatch audio interview with journalist Anand Gopal about the...
difficulties involved in reporting from Afghanistan, click here . ] Just when the Obama presidency-to-be was revving up to introduce its new ...
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Tomgram: Anand Gopal, Making Sense of the Taliban
timesofindia.indiatimes.com - 12/5/2008
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timesofindia.indiatimes.com —
New Delhi: The US leadership has asked Pakistan
to ban the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the renamed political wing of...
Lashkar-e-Taiba, immediately and take action against Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, the head of the organization. This would count as an immediate ...
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Rice urges 'robust' Pakistani response to Mumbai ...
guardian.co.uk - 11/30/2008
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guardian.co.uk —
The pitted roads around Multan, the city of
saints, stretch flat across the fields. They lead past...
rundown factories, workshops, shabby roadside teashops and mile after mile of flat fields broken only by the mud and brick houses of the villages of ...
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Mumbai: Behind the attacks lies a story of youth ...
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Tomgram: Anand Gopal, Making Sense of the Taliban
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... , "[W]hat we witnessed was a major move on President-elect Obama's chessboard of foreign policy even before he'd had a chance to lay a finger on any of the pieces." Tony Karon caught the essence of the larger political moment this way: "Provoking India would not only realign the interests of the Pakistani military and the Islamists, it would threaten U.S. efforts to reorient the Pakistani military towards domestic counterinsurgency, and to broker a deeper rapprochement with India -- a development U.S. analysts believe is key to resolving the conflict in Afghanistan." ...
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... , "[W]hat we witnessed was a major move on President-elect Obama's chessboard of foreign policy even before he'd had a chance to lay a finger on any of the pieces." Tony Karon caught the essence of the larger political moment this way: "Provoking India would not only realign the interests of the Pakistani military and the Islamists, it would threaten US efforts to reorient the Pakistani military towards domestic counterinsurgency, and to broker a deeper rapprochement with India a development US analysts believe is key to resolving the conflict in Afghanistan." In other ...
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newshoggers.com 12/12/2008 — By Cernig
This is the post where I willingly eat some crow,which will no doubt please some critics of my earlier posts on the recent terror attacks in Mumbai.
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longwarjournal.org 12/2/2008 —
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longwarjournal.org 12/23/2008 —
Baitullah Mehsud from a recent Taliban video.
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timesofindia.indiatimes.com 11/29/2008 — NEW DELHI: Distressed over widespread charges of involvement of Pakistan in the Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi cut short his four-day visit to India and abruptly left for Islamabad on Saturday morning. Qureshi ...
Apocalypse now
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