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Al Qaeda Pakistan

Afghan War May Shift Focus To Al Qaeda in Pakistan

nytimes.com | PETER BAKER and ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

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President Obama's national security team is moving to reframe its war strategy by emphasizing the campaign against Al Qaeda in Pakistan while arguing ...

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My Hamid Karzai Daydream

Jamie Metzl | Posted 10.01.2009 | World

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Jamie Metzl

Just back from Afghanistan, I began to daydream about Karzai speaking directly to the American people to take responsibility for his government's failings and seek support for U.S. engagement in the country.

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Ilyas Kashmiri And Nazimuddin, Militant Leaders, Killed By U.S. Strikes, Says Pakistan

AP | MUNIR AHMAD and CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — U.S. missiles are believed to have killed an al-Qaida operations chief and a top Uzbek militant in northwest Pakistan, officials sai...

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More Al-Qaeda Plane Terror Plots 'Likely'

BBC NEWS | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

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Al-Qaeda is likely to try again to use aircraft to attack the West, Whitehall officials have told the BBC. Security correspondent Frank Gardner said t...

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Hakimullah, Potential Baitullah Mehsud Successor, Phones AP To Say He's Alive

AP | NAHAL TOOSI and KAY JOHNSON | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A barrage of rockets hit a residential area of Pakistan's northwestern Peshawar city in a brazen pre-dawn attack Tuesday, k...

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The End Of Al Qaeda?

Newsweek | Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai | Posted 09.08.2009 | World

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If Baitullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban's most dangerous and powerful leader, was indeed killed by a U.S. Predator drone strike earlier this week, ...

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Some Al Qaeda Fighters Moving To Yemen and Somalia

New York Times | ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID E. SANGER | Posted 07.12.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON American officials say they are seeing the first evidence that dozens of fighters with Al Qaeda, and a small handful of the terrorist group...

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Hafiz Saeed A 'Humanitarian': Pakistan UN Ambassador

UN Dispatch | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

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I just sat down with the Pakistani Ambassador the United Nations, Abdullah Hussain Haroon. I asked Amb. Haroon to respond to Obama's Cairo speech and...

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Pakistan Nuclear Power Is High Concern Amidst Rising Militancy

Radio Free Europe | Ron Synovitz | Posted 05.28.2009 | World

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Advisers to U.S. President Barack Obama's administration say their worst security nightmare is the possibility that Pakistan -- a nuclear-armed count...

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Pakistan Drone Strike Kills At Least 12

Al Jazeera | Posted 04.12.2009 | World

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At least 12 people in Pakistan, including suspected al-Qaeda fighters, have been killed in a missile attack thought to have been carried out by an unm...

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Kerry: Pakistan Needs Close To $5Bn To Prevent Collapse

Telegraph | Posted 03.27.2009 | World

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The United States and Europe must give Pakistan up to $5bn (£3.5bn) in urgent aid or risk seeing the nuclear-armed country slip into chaos, two leadi...

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US Envoy: A Hasty Iraq Withdrawal Could Bolster Al Qaeda

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 02.22.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — A hasty departure of U.S. troops from Iraq would carry severe risks, including bolstering al-Qaida and threatening Iraqi progress towa...

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Benazir Bhutto: Myth vs. Reality

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 01.27.2009 | World

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Virginia M. Moncrieff

For Bhutto's many flaws, she was enormously brave. You cannot for a moment imagine that she did not know she had a target almost tattooed over her heart.

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Send America to Rehab

Eric Margolis | Posted 01.24.2009 | Politics

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Eric Margolis

Ironically, while Bush and Cheney were obsessing over al-Qaida, and searching under every rock in Afghanistan for Osama bin Laden, the real danger to America was at home -- on Wall Street.

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Pakistan's Anti-Terror Offensive Shows Slow Success

AP | KATHY GANNON | Posted 01.14.2009 | World

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SABAGAI, Pakistan — From atop a craggy hillock, the silver-haired Lt. Col. Javed Baloch gestures toward a small black opening in a sandstone out...

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Seth Colter Walls

Palin Has Repeatedly Contradicted McCain On Pakistan, Despite His Denial

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

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Does Sarah Palin agree with Barack Obama (and disagree with John McCain) on attacking known terrorist sites inside Pakistan? Despite the Republican no...

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US Missiles Strike Pakistan, Killing Six, Pakistani Spies Say

AP | NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 10.18.2008 | Home

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Air-fired missiles hit a militant compound near the Afghan border and killed at least six people Wednesday evening, offici...

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Al Qaeda In Pakistan: A Rising Threat

Huffington Post | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

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Today's New York Times leads with a report that Al Qaeda is strengthening their organization in Pakistan. With US resources heavily invested in Iraq, ...

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Analysts: Pakistan Allowing Militants To Regroup And Fortify

New York Times | CARLOTTA GALL and ISMAIL KHAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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The announcement of a cease-fire just a few weeks into a determined military operation against one of Pakistan's most wanted men, the militant leader ...

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