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Taliban Fight Back Against Pakistan Offensive

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Pakistani Army, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Pakistan, Mir Ali, Taliban, Nukes, Pakistan Army, Nuclear Weapons, Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistani Police, Waziristan, Swat Valley, Al-Qaida, Taliban Swat Valley, South Waziristan, Pakistan Police, Wana, Sarwaki, World News

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani troops and the Taliban fought fierce battles in a militant sanctuary near the Afghan border, with both si...

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Ayman al-Zawahri, Al Qaida No. 2, Calls Obama A "Fraud"

AP | SARAH EL DEEB | Posted 11.28.2009 | World

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CAIRO — Al-Qaida's deputy leader on Monday seized upon President Barack Obama's failure to bring about a freeze in Israeli settlement constructi...

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Keep Al Qaeda in Our Crosshairs

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Iran, Al Qaeda, Kabul, George Will, Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistan, Pakistan Taliban, Obama, Afghanistan, Democrats, Fata, Mccrystal, World News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

Obama has a very tough decision to make: whether or not to accept the troop level increase recommendation from his field commanders under mounting pressure from some prominent Congressional Democrats to reject it.

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How Afghanistan Can Avoid Becoming Another Vietnam

Mark Juergensmeyer | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

Read More: Manoranjan Mohanty, South Asia, Mark Juergensmeyer, Baitullah Mehsud, Afghanistan, Pakistan Taliban, Foreign Affairs, Richard Falk, Vietnam, Taliban, Afghanistan Vietnam, Afghan Taliban, Afghan Election, Advocacy, Warwire, War Wire, World News
Mark Juergensmeyer

Recently we convened a workshop of senior scholars of South Asia studies and asked them to evaluate the US role in the region. They agreed upon the following five principles as the bases for formulating a new policy

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Waliur Rehman, Pakistani Taliban Leader, Calls Obama "Our Foremost Enemy"

The Huffington Post | Susan Ryan | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

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Waliur Rehman, one of Pakistan's Taliban leaders, has said Obama is the group's "foremost enemy", McClatchy reports. Rehman told AP that the Pakistan...

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Baitullah Mehsud Killed In US Strike, Pakistani Taliban Admit

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD and KAY JOHNSON | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — After weeks of denials, two Pakistani Taliban commanders acknowledged Tuesday that the group's top leader, Baitulla...

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Baitullah Mehsud's Death Doesn't Change Pakistan's Perception Of The US

Naveen Naqvi | Posted 09.21.2009 | World

Read More: Richard Holbrooke Envoy, Support for United States, Drone Attacks, Afghanistan, Baitullah Mehsud, Richard Holbrooke, Pakistan, Spotlight on Paksitan, Us Led Drone Attacks, Taliban, Sop, President Asif Ali Zardari, World News
Naveen Naqvi

The recent killing of Baitullah Mehsud by a US-led drone attack still does not seem to work in favor of the drone attacks.

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Obama and the Afghan Election: What It Means, What It Doesn't

William Bradley | Posted 09.20.2009 | World

Read More: Abdullah Abdullah, Kandahar, Nato, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kabul, Northern Alliance, Hamid Karzai, Special Forces, Mazar-E-Sharif, Al Qaeda, George W. Bush, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Baitullah Mehsud, Taliban, World News
William Bradley

The Obama administration should sigh with a sense of relief after the election in Afghanistan -- the Taliban failed in their threat to halt the election, and were unable to pull off any of the promised attacks.

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Pakistan Taliban Caught In Power Struggle After Leader Killed

BBC NEWS | Posted 09.20.2009 | World

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A major power struggle appears to have broken out between the diverse militant factions that make up the Taliban in Pakistan....

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Baitullah Mehsud Is Dead, Says Captured Taliban Spokesman Maulvi Umar

AP | KAY JOHNSON | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — The Taliban claimed responsibility for two weekend suicide bombings in the northwestern Swat Valley, saying Monday the blasts were a...

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 09.14.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Hamid Karzai, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Pakistan, ETA Basque, Fatah, Noordin Mohammed Top, China, Aung, Elections, Marwan Barghouti, Colombia, Baitullah Mehsud, Alvaro Uribe, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chaudry, World News
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

These Past Two Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Afghan Elections SI Analysis: Presidential elections in Afghanistan will be held on 20 August....

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Baitullah Mehsud Strike Approved By Obama

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.12.2009 | World

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President Obama himself gave U.S. security operatives the green light to strike Baitullah Mehsud, according to CNN. The leader of Pakistan's Taliban...

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Baitullah Mehsud's Death Raises Questions About Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan's Stability

Ahsan Butt | Posted 09.11.2009 | World

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Ahsan Butt

For once, Asif Zardari can prove useful to Pakistan. He must remind Pakistanis that it was his wife that was killed by Baitullah in the midst of a vicious campaign of violence to destabilize Pakistan in the years of 2007 and 2008.

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Death by Drone: A Policy That Gets Results?

Kit Gallant | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

Read More: Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistan, Hearts and Minds, Assassination, Targeted Killlings, Insurgency Afghanistn, Taliban, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, World News
Kit Gallant

Counter-insurgency experts and military officials have an oft-noted tendency to focus excessively, to obsess, really, on killing or capturing a single pivotal individual.

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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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Hakimullah Mehsud: Baitullah Mehsud Is Alive

Bashir Ahmad Gwakh | Posted 09.08.2009 | World

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Bashir Ahmad Gwakh

A fellow commander of the Pakistani Taliban leader rejected government claims of the death of Baitullah Mehsud in a U.S. drone strike.

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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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Taliban Denies Leader Is Dead; Claims Twitter Account Was Down

Andy Borowitz | Posted 08.08.2009 | Comedy

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Andy Borowitz

"No missile has gotten anywhere near him," said Haikmullah Mehsud. "Like the rest of us, he has been highly frustrated by Twitter outages."

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Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistani Taliban Leader, Is Alive, Militants Say

AP | ELENA BECATOROS and ZARAR KHAN | Posted 09.08.2009 | Home

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ISLAMABAD — Senior Taliban commanders denied their leader was killed in a CIA missile strike in Pakistan while conflicting reports emerged of a ...

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Baitullah Mehsud Reportedly Dead, CIA Behind The Strike: Officials

AP | NAHAL TOOSI and ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 09.07.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's Taliban chief was killed by a CIA missile strike, a militant commander confirmed Friday – a severe blow to extremis...

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Possible Baitullah Mehsud Successors

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 09.07.2009 | World

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A look at three possible successors to Pakistan Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, who is believed to have died in a U.S. missile strike Wednesday. ___...

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Baitullah Mehsud, Taliban Chief, Reportedly Killed In US Missile Strike

AP | ZARAR KHAN and ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 09.06.2009 | World

Read More: Taliban Chief Killed, Drone Attack, Taliban Chief, Baitullah Mehsud, Missile Strike Kills Taliban, World News

ISLAMABAD — U.S. and Pakistani authorities were investigating whether Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who has led a violent campaign o...

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Wife Of Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistan Taliban Leader, Killed By US Missile Strike: Officials

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD and NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 09.05.2009 | World

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A suspected U.S. missile strike killed a wife of Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud at his father-in-law's ho...

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Displaced Pakistanis Begin Return Home (VIDEO, SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Posted 08.13.2009 | World

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The Pakistan army has begun allowing some of the 2 million people displaced by the violence in Swat Valley to return home, the BBC reports. The first...

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Suspected US Missile Strike Kills 12 In Baitullah Mehsud Stronghold

Al Jazeera English | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

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At least 12 people have been killed in a suspected US missile strike on a training camp run by Baitullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban leader, in Sout...

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