U.S.: Little to show in 8 years By Rowan Scarborough– The Washington Times December 5, 2010 The State Department has stated in a cable from Peshawar, Pakistan, that it is skeptical about eventually winning the military struggle in Pakistan‘s badlands, saying peace talks go nowhere and murderous militants control key towns. A long cable from […]
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NEWS & OBSERVER, RALEIGH, N.C. CIA recalls exposed spy ISLAMABAD The CIA yanked its top spy out of Pakistan after his cover was blown and his life threatened, and 54 suspected militants were killed in a U.S. drone missile attack Friday in stark new signs of the troubled relationship between mistrustful allies locked in a
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November 11, 2010 By ROGER COHEN LONDON — A world without nuclear weapons sounds nice, but of course that was the world that brought us World War I and World War II. If you like the sound of that, the touchy-feely “Global Zero” bandwagon is probably for you. I’m an optimist in general but a
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Spy agencies infiltrate al-Qaida November 5, 2010 by Paisley Dodds LONDON Months after he was released from Guantanamo Bay, Abdul Rahman was back in the company of terrorist leaders along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. But he was a double agent, providing Taliban and al-Qaida secrets to Pakistani intelligence, which then shared the tips
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) In Enemy Hands One man lives to tell a tale of the Taliban. Rosanne Klass October 18, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 05 Captive My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban by Jere Van Dyk Times Books, 288 pp., $25 In January 2002, Daniel Pearl of the Wall Street
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OCTOBER 26, 2010 The Pakistan Paradox Unless we’re prepared to deal with it as an enemy, we must make do with it as a friend. By BRET STEPHENS Any serious observer of the war in Afghanistan will tell you that we can’t win without striking hard at the safe havens the Taliban and its allies
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OCTOBER 13, 2010 Abducted and Tortured—for Reporting the News ‘This is the consequence of writing against the government,’ my captors said. By UMAR CHEEMA Islamabad, Pakistan Being a journalist, I’m always in search of a juicy story. Last month I happened on one I’ll remember forever: a torture operation conducted presumably by thugs of Pakistan’s
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By Michelle Malkin • September 10, 2010 08:24 AM *** The eternal flame of Muslim outrage by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2010 Shhhhhhh, we’re told. Don’t protest the Ground Zero mosque. Don’t burn a Koran. It’ll imperil the troops. It’ll inflame tensions. The “Muslim world” will “explode” if it does not get its way, warns sharia-peddling
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DE BORCHGRAVE: World’s first failed nuclear state? Flood-ravaged millions could fall in with Islamic extremists By Arnaud de Borchgrave -The Washington Times September 7, 2010 The United States spent nine years (1980-1989) working closely with Pakistan’s military against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, followed by 11 years (1990-2001) of punishing Pakistan with all manner of
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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 If Saddam Had Stayed Saddam would have joined the nuclear bad-boys club with Iran and North Korea. By DANIEL HENNINGER From the vantage point of history, Barack Obama’s prime-time speech announcing the Iraq war’s end is less important than the speech he gave eight years ago as a state senator in Illinois.
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