longwarjournal.org - 10/16/2008
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After a relative lull in targeted airstrikes in Pakistan's tribal areas, the US has launched an attack in South Waziristan.
Reports from Pakistan indicate at least six were killed and five were wounded after an unmanned Predator strike aircraft launched two missiles in the tribal region run ...
mcclatchydc.com - 10/15/2008
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mcclatchydc.com —
WASHINGTON — A growing al Qaida-backed insurgency, combined
with the Pakistani army's reluctance to launch an all-out
crackdown, political infighting and energy and food shortages are plunging America's key ally in the war on terror deeper into ...
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New intelligence report says Pakistan is 'on the edge'
fivethirtyeight.com - 10/19/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
Yesterday, at a fundraiser in Greensboro, North Carolina,
Sarah Palin said the following : We believe that
the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being ...
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"Real" America Looks Different to Palin, Obama
newsweek.com - 10/17/2008
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newsweek.com —
This time it wasn't the terrorist scare making
Pakistanis nervous. Depositors thronged banks over the last few
days to retrieve cash and valuables. Rumors that the government was on the verge of seizing bank lockers and foreign-currency accounts to ...
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Can Pakistan Stay Afloat? | Newsweek International
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Bill Roggio: US kills 6 in strike in Baitullah Mehsud's territory
Victory Caucus -- All Content —
... Thursday, 16 October 2008 The latest US Predator strike in Paksitan's tribal areas hit in the town of LAdha, where the Pakistani military abandoned a fort earlier this year. read ...
From ABBA to Al Qaeda
small dead animals —
... He detonated his vest after being mortally wounded and killed three women and three children. The US military said Abu Qaswarah was a Moroccan who trained in al Qaeda camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the 1990s. He had close connections with Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the slain leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, and commanded al Qaeda forces in northern Iraq before being appointed second in command. In the meantime , America seems to have no intention of giving Cambodiastan a free ride ... click . Posted by Cjunk at October 16, 2008 8:12 PM
16Oct 2008, Yet ANOTHER U.S. Strike Inside Pakistan
Flopping Aces —
... areas in an attempt to disrupt al Qaeda and the Taliban’s network of training camps and safe houses that are being used to plot attacks against the West and in Afghanistan. Today’s strike was the first since Oct. 11, when US Predators hit a safe house run by the Haqqani family in North Waziristan. Two days prior, the US hit another safe house in North Waziristan, where more than 30 senior Taliban and al Qaeda leaders are said to have been meeting.
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TIMELINE of U.S. Attacks Inside Pakistan in 2008
Flopping Aces —
... June 14, 2008
• Senior Algerian al Qaeda operative killed in May 14 strike inside Pakistan,
May 24, 2008
• Missile strike kills 20 in South Waziristan,
March 16, 2008
• Unprecedented Coalition strike nails the Haqqani Network in North Waziristan,
March 13, 2008
• Missile strike on al Qaeda meeting in South Waziristan kills 13,
Feb. 28, 2008
• Senior al Qaeda leader Abu Laith al Libi killed in North Waziristan,
Jan. 31, 2008
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Airstrikes Against Baitullah Mehsud Don't Indicate a New Strategy
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Bush administration, when the Taliban leader waged a campaign of suicide bombings inside Pakistan and humiliated the Pakistani army in his tribal stronghold near the Afghan border.
The problem is these articles are wrong. Since 2005, I've tracked the airstrikes inside Pakistan closely. There were three strikes against Baitullah's network prior to President Obama taking office.
A June 15, 2008 strike took place in Makeen, Baitullah's home town. An October 16, 2008 strike took place in the village of Sam in the Ladha region. And a January 2, ...
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US and Pakistani forces operating along the porous border between Afghanistan’s Paktika province and the Waziristan tribal areas in Pakistan’s tribal areas ...
Who goes there?
pajamasmedia.com 12/8/2008 — The Times of India reports that US policy makers are having second thoughts about whether Pakistan is in the main, friend and not foe.
The United States is dusting off a long-discarded proposal to declare Pakistan a state sponsor of terrorism. But ...
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