longwarjournal.org - 12/15/2008
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Map of the tribal areas and the Northwest Frontier Province. The government signed peace agreements in the red agencies/ districts (the military said Shangla was under Taliban control in October); purple districts are under de facto Taliban control; yellow regions are under ...
salon.com - 12/12/2008
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salon.com —
Dec. 12, 2008 | A consensus is emerging
among intelligence analysts and pundits that Pakistan may be...
President-elect Barack Obama's greatest policy challenge. A base for terrorist groups, the country has a fragile new civilian government and a long ...
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Obama, Pakistan, terrorism
telegraph.co.uk - 12/15/2008
swamppolitics.com - 12/15/2008
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by Frank James On the way to Afghanistan
last night, President Bush joked with reporters aboard Air...
Force One about the shoes seen 'round the world. It seemed like he actually made fun of himself at one point, saying he didn't know what the man ...
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Bush doesn't admit Iraq's angry soles
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Bill Roggio: US Predator strikes in North Waziristan
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... Monday, 15 December 2008 Latest cross-border attack in a Haqqani family-controlled region killed two people; no senior Taliban or al Qaeda leaders have been reported killed. read ...
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longwarjournal.org 12/22/2008 —
Map of the tribal areas and the Northwest Frontier Province. The government signed peace agreements in the red agencies/ districts (the military said Shangla was under Taliban control in October); purple districts are under de facto ...
Double-Teaming Pakistan
blogs.abcnews.com 12/22/2008 — ABC News' Luis Martinez and Kirit Radia Report: In another sign of how importantly the US military is taking its relationship with Pakistan, the Pentagon announced that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen visited Pakistan earlier...
Pakistan takes minimal steps against banned terror front
longwarjournal.org 12/16/2008 — One week after the United Nations Security Council declared the Pakistan-based Jamaat-ud-Dawa charity a front group for the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group, the Pakistani government has taken minimal steps to clamp down on the organization.
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Partnership for Progress
americanprogress.org 11/18/2008 — 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 ...
Pakistan detains Lashkar-e-Taiba communications expert
longwarjournal.org 12/10/2008 — Pakistan security services detained another senior Lashkar-e-Taiba operative suspected of being involved in the Mumbai terror attack.
Zarar Shah was one of an estimated 10 to 20 Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives detained during raids on the terror ...
US hits South Waziristan in second strike
longwarjournal.org 1/2/2009 — The US has struck for the second time in two days in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan.
An unmanned US Predator aircraft fired missiles at an abandoned girls' school in the village of Madin in the Lahda region. Four ...
Pakistan on the Taliban: "Dialogue must now be the highest priority"
longwarjournal.org 10/23/2008 — Pakistan's parliament has unanimously passed a 14-point resolution on combating the rise of terrorism and extremism. The document is being hailed by Information Minister Sherry Rehman as a "major signal for terrorists that our nation rejects their ...
Mumbai Attacks Planned in Pakistan
outsidethebeltway.com 2/13/2009 — Yesterday Pakistan acknowledged what the Indians have been saying all along, that the terrorist attacks in Mumbai last November were planned in Pakistan and executed by Pakistanis with the assistance of the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group:
ISLAMABAD, ...
The Pakistani Monster
antiwar.com 3/7/2009 — Excerpt: The tempestuous relationship between the United States and Pakistan is akin to a sordid soap opera featuring a fickle, selfish lover and her unpredictable mistress prone to volatile tantrums.
Obama continues Pakistan missile strikes
swamppolitics.com 1/27/2009 — by Frank James
There are reports from Pakistan that missiles, presumably from a U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle or UAV, have killed 10 people in that nation's tribal region across the border from Afghanistan.
If these missiles were indeed fired ...
Kerry urges Pakistan to control spy agency —
Reuters: Politics 12/15/2008
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Pakistan military's powerful spy agency must be tightly controlled and not allowed to act independently, Senator John Kerry said Monday after meeting Indian leaders to discuss the deadly Mumbai attacks.
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