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July 2008
- Pakistan Spends US Anti-Terror Aid on Jets
  
  newser | New York Times | 10 hours, 58 minutes ago
  
  A plan to spend US funds earmarked for anti-terrorism aid to upgrade Pakistan's F-16 jets is angering lawmakers who complain that it's a misuse of the money, the New York Times reports. The Bush administration says the $230 million will boost the jets' ability to strike at insurgents. Critics say Pakistan uses the aircraft to maintain its military rivalry with India rather than to fight terrorism. More »
  
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  Pakistan • al-Qaeda • counterterrorism • fighter jet • tribal areas • Pakistan military
- Obama Declares Afghanistan 'Precarious and Urgent'
  
  newser | USA Today | Jul 20, 08 1:41 PM CDT
  
  Calling the situation in Afghanistan "precarious and urgent," Barack Obama today urged the Bush administration to make Afghanistan—rather than Iraq—"the central front in our battle against terrorism." In his first interview since arriving in the country yesterday, the Democratic candidate told Lara Logan on Face the Nation that an additional two brigades were needed to combat insurgents and the drug trade that finances them, USA Today reports. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq war • Pakistan • Afghanistan • al-Qaeda • Taliban • US military • Hamid Karzai • Kabul • Afghanistan war
- Obama Meets Afghan Leaders, Reiterates Support
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 19, 08 2:03 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama met today with officials from one of Afghanistan’s most hard-fought regions, the AP reports, and re-iterated his commitment to intensifying US efforts there if elected president. Together with Chuck Hagel and Jack Reed, Obama visited Jalalabad Air Field in Nangarhar province. Nangarhar lies next to the Pakistani border, and has come under intense Taliban attacks, a former warlord told Obama’s delegation. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Pakistan • Afghanistan • Taliban • US military • Chuck Hagel • Jack Reed
- Taliban Shows Fresh Fangs in US Base Attack
  
  newser | Reuters | Jul 14, 08 3:17 PM CDT
  
  The Taliban demonstrated complex tactics and a renewed taste for conventional warfare in the attack on a remote outpost that claimed the lives of nine US soldiers yesterday, Reuters reports. The militants drove the residents from a nearby village and used it as a base of operations from which to launch their offensive, which briefly breached the outpost’s defenses. More »
  
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  Pakistan • Afghanistan • Taliban • US Army • NATO • suicide bombing • warfare
- Taliban Use Marble Business to Fund Fighting
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 14, 08 8:55 AM CDT
  
  One of Pakistan's most prized national assets is a marble quarry that sat shuttered by government deadlock and tribal squabbles until the Taliban took over the site by force. Now, as gleaming white stone rolls out of the quarry, the New York Times sneaks into the region to discover how the Taliban have extended their reach and solidified their operations in recent months, as the Pakistan military has pulled back. More »
  
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  Pakistan • Taliban • Afghan border • North West Frontier Province
- Pakistan: US Not Hunting bin Laden on Our Turf
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 13, 08 8:31 AM CDT
  
  Pakistan's foreign minister said yesterday that his country has no plans to allow US or other foreign troops into the country to search for Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda members, AP reports. Shah Mahmood Qureshi says that Pakistani troops, plus "grassroots" efforts to stop terrorism before it can begin, are sufficient measures for combating militant activity. More »
  
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  Pakistan • al-Qaeda • terrorism • US military • Osama bin Laden • Pakistan militants • sovereignty
- Islamic Militants Now Migrating to Pakistan to Fight
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 10, 08 5:34 AM CDT
  
  Pakistan, rather than Iraq, has become the preferred destination for foreign fighters looking to join Islamic militant organizations, reports the New York Times . Websites are increasingly encouraging migrating Sunni extremists to go to Pakistan and Afghanistan, where they can join a "winning fight," rather than participate in the waning Iraqi insurgence, according to American intelligence officials. More »
  
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  Pakistan • Islamic militants • Afghan border • North West Frontier Province • Sunni extremism • foreign fighters
- Pakistan Suicide Blast Kills 11 at Mosque Memorial
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 7, 08 3:37 AM CDT
  
  A suicide bombing near Pakistan’s Red Mosque killed at least 11 and wounded more than 22, most of them police officers, the New York Times reports. Thousands were nearby yesterday to observe the anniversary of a showdown between militants and security forces which killed more than 100 people last year. The bomber dodged tight security, confirming government fears of another terrorist attack on the date. More »
  
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  Pakistan • police • suicide bombing • Red Mosque • terrorist attack • Red Mosque crisis
- Bhutto Investigation Going Nowhere
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jul 4, 08 1:10 PM CDT
  
  There doesn’t seem to be much urgency behind the hunt for Benazir Bhutto’s killers, the Los Angeles Times reports, though her party has come to power in Pakistan since the Dec. 27 assassination. The government still hasn’t commissioned an independent investigation, and police have all but abandoned the case. “It looks as if it’s a forgotten chapter,” one retired general said More »
  
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  Pakistan • Benazir Bhutto • Pakistan People's Party • Asif Ali Zardari • Baitullah Mehsud
June 2008
- US and Pakistan Let al-Qaeda Regroup
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 30, 08 9:00 AM CDT
  
  Nearly seven years after 9/11, America has not only failed to capture Osama bin Laden; it has also allowed al-Qaeda to rebuild itself in lawless northwest Pakistan, near the Afghan border. The New York Times conducted more than four dozen interviews to discover how rivalries among American agencies, trouble with Pervez Musharraf, and the distraction of Iraq allowed al-Qaeda to foil Operation Cannonball, a highly classified CIA initiative. More »
  
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  Pakistan • Afghanistan • Bush administration • al-Qaeda • CIA • September 11 • tribal areas • US-Pakistan relations • South Waziristan
- Pakistan Routs Taliban Forces in Major Offensive
  
  newser | CNN | Jun 28, 08 1:25 PM CDT
  
  Pakistan blasted suspected militant hideouts today, launching its biggest offensive against Taliban forces since electing a government last March. The military cleared three militant outposts and forced the insurgents west, CNN reports. For weeks, tensions have mounted between militants and Islamabad, which abandoned its diplomatic strategy as insurgent strikes increased. More »
  
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  Pakistan • Afghanistan • Taliban • Pentagon • insurgents • Robert Gates • Islamabad
- Afghans Accuse Pakistan of Karzai Plot
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 25, 08 1:08 PM CDT
  
  Afghanistan publicly accused Pakistan of plotting the April assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai, saying it has evidence linking Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence to the deed. A spokesman said phone records, documents, and confessions from suspects proved the ISI harbored "the real schemers and organizers" behind the attack. More »
  
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  Pakistan • Afghanistan • al-Qaeda • Taliban • Hamid Karzai • assassination attempt
- US Can't Be Sure Pakistan's $5.6B Went to Fight Terror
  
  newser | CNN | Jun 25, 08 12:28 PM CDT
  
  The Defense Department cannot show that nearly $6 billion the US has sent to Pakistan since 2001 has been used, as intended, to fight terrorism. In a report yesterday, the Government Accountability Office said the Pentagon hadn’t properly tracked the funds, CNN reports, blindly signing off on questionable charges—leading critics to charge that Pakistan bolstered its own defense capability at US expense. More »
  
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  Pakistan • al-Qaeda • Taliban • Defense Department • Government Accountability Office • US military aid • Coalition Support Funds
- Leaderless Pakistan Drifts Toward Chaos
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 24, 08 5:10 AM CDT
  
  Four months after historic elections in Pakistan, the nation has descended into leaderless chaos, Western diplomats and military leaders believe. The void has serious consequences for fighting militants in Pakistan's lawless northwest on the border with Afghanistan, reports the New York Times. More »
  
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  Pakistan • Muslim League • Pakistan military • Pakistan army • North West Frontier Province • Pakistan intelligence services
- Justices Will Decide If Immigrant Can Sue Ashcroft
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jun 16, 08 3:01 PM CDT
  
  The Supreme Court today agreed to hear an appeal from John Ashcroft, with the former attorney general insisting top government officials cannot be sued by immigrants who allege they were beaten and abused after 9/11. Lower courts have refused to dismiss a suit from a man who was held for 6 months before being deported to Pakistan—without being charged, the Los Angeles Times reports. More »
  
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  Pakistan • US Supreme Court • John Ashcroft • Robert Mueller
- Karzai Warns Pakistan He'll Send Troops Over Border
  
  newser | BBC | Jun 15, 08 2:33 PM CDT
  
  Citing the right to self defense, Afghan President Hamid Karzai warned that his country may send troops across the border with Pakistan to fight militants who have killed Afghans, BBC reports. "When they cross the territory from Pakistan to come and kill Afghans and to kill coalition troops it exactly gives us the right to go back and do the same." More »
  
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  Pakistan • Afghanistan • Taliban • Hamid Karzai • Pakistan militants • self defense • Yusuf Raza Gillani
- Bush Running Out of Time to Catch Bin Laden
  
  newser | Times (UK) | Jun 15, 08 12:32 PM CDT
  
  President Bush has renewed the hunt for Osama bin Laden, enlisting the aid of British special forces to make the capture before he leaves the White House next year, the Times of London reports. Bush's European farewell tour moved today to England, which has participated in renewed raids in northern Pakistan. “Bush is swinging for the fences in the hope of scoring a home run,” said an intelligence source. More »
  
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  George W. Bush • Pakistan • Gordon Brown • War on Terror • England • Osama bin Laden • Queen Elizabeth II
- Rival Calls for Musharraf's Head
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 14, 08 5:56 PM CDT
  
  A political rival blasted President Pervez Musharraf today, leading a massive crowd to chant “Hang him, hang him,” the New York Times reports. In a televised address that capped off days of protest in Islamabad, Nawaz Sharif grew heated: “We asked you to quit with honor after the election but you didn’t,” he said. “Now people have given a new judgment for you.” More »
  
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  Pakistan • Pervez Musharraf • Nawaz Sharif • trial • Pakistan People's Party • Asif Ali Zardari • Pakistan Muslim League • impeachment • hanging
- US Releases Pakistan Border Clash Video
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 12, 08 7:50 AM CDT
  
  US-led coalition forces have released a video shot from a surveillance drone showing a controversial clash on the Afghan-Pakistan border. Pakistan claims the engagement led to an airstrike that killed 11 of its troops, but the coalition says the footage proves that US and Afghan forces were simply returning fire after being attacked, the AP reports. More »
  
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  Pakistan • Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan militants • Afghan border • spy drones
- Pakistan Condemns US Air Strike That Killed 11 Troops
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jun 11, 08 9:46 AM CDT
  
  At least 11 Pakistani soldiers and 10 other people were killed today in an ugly border incident that could strain US/Pakistani ties. US fighters reportedly launched an air strike inside Pakistan’s mountainous tribal area, backing up Afghan troops fighting Taliban forces. The matter was complicated, however, because Pakistani troops were apparently fighting alongside the Taliban, the Washington Post reports. More »
  
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  Pakistan • Afghanistan • Taliban • airstrike • Waziristan • Afghan border • Afghan Army • Pakistan army

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