longwarjournal.org - 12/4/2008
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The US government is seeking to add several former Pakistani intelligence officers to the United Nations’ list of international terrorists, The News reported . A senior US intelligence official familiar with the effort to reign in Pakistan’s intelligence service confirmed to The Long War ...
post-gazette.com - 12/5/2008
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post-gazette.com —
Despite a new administration coming into power, U.S.
Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan said she plans to stick...
around. "It doesn't serve justice for all the U.S. attorneys to submit their resignations all at one time," she said yesterday. U.S. attorneys ...
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Buchanan doesn't plan to step down as U.S. attorney
thinkprogress.org - 12/5/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
Mary Beth Buchanan was appointed by President Bush
to serve as U.S. attorney in Pittsburgh in Sept....
2001. Buchanan has held several significant posts within the Bush/Ashcroft/Gonzales Justice Department, most notably serving as director the Executive ...
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A New Attorney Scandal? Bush-Appointed U.S. Attorney ...
commentarymagazine.com - 12/5/2008
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commentarymagazine.com —
Barack Obama is toying with the idea of
making a speech from an Islamic capital within his...
first 100 days in office. The scuttlebutt is all about finding the right one. (The consensus is Cairo–which is a terrible idea. An Obama speech there ...
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Obama’s Muslim Speech
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Bill Roggio: US moves to declare former Pakistani officers international terrorists
Victory Caucus -- All Content —
... Thursday, 04 December 2008 The US wants to place three senior former ISI officers and a former Chief of Army Staff on the United Nations international terrorist list. read ...
Terrorist Boot Camp
Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. —
... chef's apprentice or other kitchen helper, providing video and hand drawn maps, number and station of employees, etc with other intel for the event. According to Kasab, the training began about 11 months prior to the attack about the time that Benazir Bhutto was assassinated (December 2007). On the former military officers training the terrorists, the Long War Journal indicates that the US is pushing the UN to declare four high ranking former Pakistan military and ISI commanders " international terrorists ".Which is why, when reading about Gul's and the others historical ...
Who goes there?
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... of terrorism if it does not act. It was because of this long history of Pakistan’s corrosive terrorist record that an outraged Rice dismissed Islamabad’s request for evidence this time, saying, there is a “lot of information about what happened here, a lot of information… And so this isn’t an issue of sharing evidence.” Whatever the American attitude towards the Government of Pakistan will be, the US already openly believes that certain Pakistani officials are in fact, terrorists. Bill Roggio reports that “the US wants the United Nations Security Council to designate several ...
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