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thenation.com - 7 days ago
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At a covert forward operating base run by
the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the...
Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted ...
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Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan
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newyorker.com - 22 days ago
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In the tumultuous days leading up to the
Pakistan Army’s ground offensive in the tribal area of...
South Waziristan, which began on October 17th, the Pakistani Taliban attacked what should have been some of the country’s best-guarded targets. ...
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Seymour M. Hersh: In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear ...
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Pakistan Latest Blog Posts
Obama’s Afghanistan Speech
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Nothing Says "Peace" Like Foreign Mercenaries
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Serious Question
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dallasnews.com - 18 days ago
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09:05 AM CST on Thursday, November 12, 2009
By DAVE MICHAELS / The Dallas Morning News dmichaels@dallasnews.com...
WASHINGTON – Authorities have been examining whether Fort Hood massacre suspect Nidal Malik Hasan wired money to Pakistan in recent months, ...
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Fort Hood shootings suspect may have wired money to Pakistan
washingtonpost.com - 32 hours ago
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Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or
other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from...
the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...
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Obama offers new role for Pakistan
nytimes.com - 15 days ago
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WASHINGTON The Obama administration is stepping up
pressure on Pakistan to expand and reorient its fight...
against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, warning that failing to do so would undercut the new strategy and troop increase for Afghanistan that ...
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Afghanistan Strategists Turn Focus to Pakistan
blogs.abcnews.com - 24 days ago
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White House officials tell ABC News that President
Obama will visit with wounded soldiers tomorrow at Walter...
Reed Army Medical Center. The trip was scheduled before the incident today at Fort Hood, officials said. President Obama visited wounded troops at...
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President Obama to Visit Walter Reed Friday
news.antiwar.com - 29 days ago
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The latest figures from the United Nations show
205,000 civilians have been displaced in the South Waziristan...
offensive . UN numbers tend to be somewhat lower than the actual numbers as many displaced stay with relatives and never register as IDPs ...
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Civilian Displacements Top 200,000 as Waziristan ...
wire.antiwar.com - 29 days ago
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[ Content | Sidebar ] Antiwar Newswire powered
by mochila A car bomb tore through a busy...
market in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing 91 people as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the country and pledged American ...
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Car bomb kills 91 in Pakistani city of Peshawar
truthdig.com - 29 days ago
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By William Pfaff When Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton visits Pakistan this week, she will hear a...
lot about how fearful the Pakistan populace is, not of the Taliban and al-Qaida, but of the United States. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related ...
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Arrogant U.S. Misses the Message From Pakistan’s People
atimes.com - 24 days ago
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US puts its faith in Pakistan's military By
Syed Saleem Shahzad ISLAMABAD - Abdullah Abdullah, who this...
week withdrew from the presidential election runoff in Afghanistan, thereby handing victory to the incumbent, Hamid Karzai, did so under pressure ...
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Asia Times Online
adnkronos.com - 23 days ago
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Islamabad, 6 Nov. (AKI) - By Syed Saleem
Shahzad - The United States put pressure on Afghan...
president Hamid Karzai's rival, Abdullah Abdullah, to withdraw from the country's presidential race and hand victory to Karzai, sources have told Adnkronos ...
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Afghanistan: Karzai rival 'withdrew under US pressure'
ottawacitizen.com - 19 days ago
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As dozens of talking heads descended on CNN
and FOX TV to give their opinions on the...
Fort Hood massacre last week, no one seemed to notice the significance of the attire that suspect Maj. Nidal Hasan was wearing the morning of the killings. It was ...
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You can't ignore the role of radical Islam
blogs.abcnews.com - 18 days ago
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In an interview with Roland Martin on the
Tom Joyner Morning Show this morning, former Chairman of...
the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell revealed that he recently advised President Obama to take his time in devising his strategy for Afghanistan ...
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Gen. Powell to President Obama on Af-Pak Strategy: "Take ...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com - 16 days ago
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MUMBAI: The 26/11 terror attack trial may not
conclude soon despite the confession by prime accused Mohammed...
Ajmal Kasab in the court as he has only "partially" admitted to his guilt, special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said here on Tuesday. ...
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'26/11 trial will go on despite Kasab's confession'
nytimes.com - 8 days ago
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NEW YORK Sales of military weapons by U.S.
contractors to foreign governments doubled in the past year,...
as countries including Pakistan, Australia and Greece stepped up purchases of armaments and the U.S. government loosened policies to allow more ...
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U.S. arms sales overseas double
france24.com - 8 days ago
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AFP - Archaeologists warn that the Taliban are
destroying Pakistan's ancient Gandhara heritage and rich Buddhist legacy...
as pilgrimage and foreign research dries up in the country's northwest. "Militants are the enemies of culture," said Abdul Nasir ...
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Taliban suffocate Pakistan Buddhist heritage
politico.com - 6 days ago
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Following an unusual nighttime meeting in the Situation Room
Monday, President Barack Obama has finished debating the Afghanistan/Pakistan...
policy with his advisers and will announce a decision shortly, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs ...
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Obama set to decide AfPak, 'cost...a concern'
blackfive.net - 34 hours ago
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I grow bored of rehashing something we have
been rehashing so long that the links to where...
I did an exhaustive analysis of it at Madison.com are no longer even active. So Tora Bora , let me make this simple. 1. We invade A-Stan with small number of ...
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Afghanistan? Tora Bora? Bush's fault forever
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Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military ...
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realclearpolitics.com - 24 days ago
bluecontrarian.blogspot.com - 23 days ago
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A stable and enduring peace can only emerge
once Afghanistan is closed down as a theatre of...
strategic competition between India and Pakistan. And this can only be achieved when the issues that motivate and sustain that competition are resolved......
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A Temporary Peace?
