Nov 18th 2009
Lack of government control and tension between the U.S. and Pakistan have extended the lifespan of al Qaida.
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Nov 17th 2009
A senior al Qaeda leader in Afghanistan is blaming the Xe security company, formerly known as Blackwater, for being behind a string of deadly attacksin the Pakistani city of Peshawar...
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Pentagon and Beyond
Oct 26th 2009
Missiles fired from U.S. drones have killed dozens of suspected terrorists in northwest Pakistan. Intelligence officials say it's their most effectiveweapon against Al Qaeda...
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Pentagon and Beyond
Oct 7th 2009
The Pentagon has been seeking with little success permission from Congress to transfer used military hardware from Iraq to the Pakistani army but American lawmakers have so far balked at the request, citing concerns that Islamabad could use the equipment against India...
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Oct 2nd 2009
Najibullah Zazi's pleaded not guilty to plotting a terrorist attack on New York City using common everyday chemicals. His lawyer entered the pleas ina Brooklyn Court room...
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Sep 9th 2009
Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf may escape prosecution. Some political organizations in that country wanted to send him to prison for indiscretions during his reign...
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Pentagon and Beyond
Sep 2nd 2009
AQ Khan. Will the Pakistani scientist blamed for proliferating nuclear technology to Noth Korea, Iran and Libya be released from house arrest and whatwill that mean for the rest of the world? On Friday, the Pakistani court that called for his release will reconvene and the police and government will asked to explain why he should not be completely free...
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Aug 18th 2009
Agence France Press is reporting that Pakistan's military has arrested the top Taliban spokesman Maulvi Omar in the lawless tribal region bordering Afghanistan, security and government officials said Tuesday...
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Aug 11th 2009
Whether he's dead or alive Baitullah Mehsud's death is unlikely to change the landsacape in Pakistan. There are those who think that his death will close the door on a violent chapter in Pakistan and lead to
peace, but experts remind us that similar claims were made about the killing of Nek Mohammad, another Waziristan-based pro-Taliban Pashtun commander who led an insurgency against security forces in the tribal belt...
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Jul 31st 2009
Osama Bin Laden did seek nuclear weapons. In an exclusive interview with The Nation newspaper online Pakistani Scientist Sultan Bashir Mahmood, a retired director general of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission said Bin Ladin did ask him about getting nuclear technology...
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Pentagon and Beyond
May 21st 2009
The Pentagon say it will give Pakistan another ten-million dollars in military assistance. Spokesman Geoff Morrell says the U.S. is also sending military assets to the region...
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Pentagon and Beyond
Apr 23rd 2009
The Taliban is less than an hour away from Pakistan's capital of Islamabad and possibly a takeover of that country and its nukes.
Their forces have taken over the Buner district which is only an hour's drive from the seat of government...
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Intel Briefing
Apr 2nd 2009
Pakistan military officials have for some time now asked for the U.S. to give them technologically advanced weapons to fight Al-Qaida and the Talibanon their own and they may get their wish soon...
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