Jul 20, 2009 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Here's how Obama's health care racketeering scheme works. Set up an Obama health insurance company and then shut down all the private competition through laws and gangster pricing tactics. Taxes are one revenue stream. Obama now wants the entire revenue stream of the health insurance industry. Obama Is Creating A Government Health Insurance ...
Continue ReadingJul 17, 2009 6 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
MOUNT PLEASANT, Wis. (AP) - The owner of a southern Wisconsin house might not be in love with the Oscar Mayer wiener right now.
Continue ReadingJul 13, 2009 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
The Wall Street Journal: Thousands of people began returning to Pakistan's Swat Valley after nearly three months of fighting that drove the Taliban from the region and created the country's worst refugee crisis in six decades. Pakistan earned praise at home and abroad for its offensive in Swat, which began in late April after the collapse of ...
Continue ReadingJul 6, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani warplanes bombed Taliban positions in the northwest Sunday, killing at least five insurgents, residents said, as militants distributed leaflets warning area tribesmen not to rise up against them. Fighting has intensified in northwest Pakistan over the past two months, since the military went on the offensive to push back an expanding ...
Continue ReadingJul 4, 2009 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Pakistani fighter jets pounded Taliban positions in the country's volatile northwest on Saturday, killing at least 12 suspected insurgents, security officials said, as the government kept up pressure on Islamist militants along the Afghan border. Elsewhere in the northwest, clashes between tribesmen and Taliban fighters left 16 people dead in the latest ...
Continue ReadingJul 3, 2009 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
ISLAMABAD - U.S. missiles struck a training facility operated by Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud and a militant hide-out Friday, killing 15 people and wounding 27 others, intelligence officials said. The two attacks by drone aircraft took place in South Waziristan, a Mehsud stronghold close to the Afghan border where Pakistani troops are gearing up for ...
Continue ReadingJul 2, 2009 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Washington Times: Pakistan's top Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, is buying children as young as 7 to serve as suicide bombers in the growing spate of attacks against Pakistani, Afghan and U.S. targets, U.S. Defense Department and Pakistani officials say. A Pakistani official, who spoke on the condition that he not be named because of the sensitive nature ...
Continue ReadingJul 2, 2009 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
About four thousand U.S. Marines and 650 Afghan forces poured into Taliban-controlled villages in southern Afghanistan on Thursday in the first major operation under President Barack Obama's strategy to stabilize the country. One Marine was killed in fighting after troops hiking through searing heat took fire from small pockets of militants. This is the first casualty ...
Continue ReadingJun 29, 2009 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
MIR ALI, Pakistan - Taliban militants in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan say they have pulled out of a peace deal with the government, raising the prospect of wider unrest as the Pakistani army extends its efforts to eliminate insurgents. The militants in North Waziristan blamed continuing U.S. missile strikes and army offensives against the Taliban ...
Continue ReadingJun 23, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Before After ISLAMABAD (AP) - A Taliban faction leader who was seen as the chief rival to the militant group's Pakistani head was fatally shot Tuesday, reportedly by one of his own guards. The attack on Qari Zainuddin appeared to be a sign that divisions within the Taliban have broken into the open as they come under ...
Continue ReadingJun 14, 2009 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan ordered its army to go after the country's top Taliban commander, a feared militant whose remote stronghold could prove a difficult test for troops but whose demise would be a major blow to the insurgencies here and in Afghanistan. The announcement Sunday of the operation in South Waziristan, rumored for weeks, came hours ...
Continue ReadingJun 11, 2009 6 Comments ›› Erik Wong
ISLAMABAD (AP) - The footage was chilling—a woman crying out in pain, held face-down on the ground, as a man with a long beard flogged her in front of a crowd. It could be the video that changed Pakistan. That two-minute clip, purportedly shot in the Swat Valley where the Taliban held sway until a recent military ...
Continue ReadingJun 5, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
POLITICO: DRESDEN, Germany — President Barack Obama's speech to the Muslim world was loaded with phrases and ideas aimed very much at rattling one man he never mentioned: Osama bin Laden. Senior administration officials say the speech was carefully crafted to rob the Al Qaeda leader and his terrorist network of some of its chief recruiting totems, ...
Continue ReadingJun 4, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
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Continue ReadingJun 3, 2009 10 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: Usama bin Laden threatened Americans in a new audio tape Wednesday, saying President Barack Obama inflamed hatred toward the U.S. by ordering Pakistan to crack down on militants in Swat Valley and block Islamic law there. Bin Laden claimed U.S. pressure led to a campaign of "killing, fighting, bombing and destruction" that prompted the exodus ...
Continue ReadingJun 1, 2009 8 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
ISLAMABAD — The Taliban has abducted some 400 students, staff members and relatives driving away from a school in a troubled tribal region in northwest Pakistan, police said. Police official Meer Sardar said the mass abduction occurred about 20 miles from Razmak Cadet College in North Waziristan. The people were leaving the school area after a phone ...
Continue ReadingMay 30, 2009 8 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Times Online: THE first thing Sadaffe Abid did when she heard Wednesday’s massive bomb rattling the windows in her office four miles away was, like most residents of Lahore, to telephone to check on family and friends. However, what she did next was more surprising. “I told them we should come out on to the streets to ...
Continue ReadingMay 30, 2009 11 Comments ›› Erik Wong
President Barack Obama will offer a "personal commitment" to bridge US differences with Muslims in his long-awaited speech to the Islamic world next week in Egypt, aides said. But White House advisors said Friday that Obama would not shy away from addressing "tough issues" in the speech on Thursday at the University of Cairo which will ...
Continue ReadingMay 28, 2009 15 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
TEHRAN, Iran -- An explosion at a mosque in southeast Iran near the Pakistani border killed 15 people and wounded 50, Iran's official news agency said Thursday. Officials were investigating the cause of the explosion in the Iranian city of Zahedan, some 1,000 miles southeast of the capital, Tehran, the news agency said. It quoted an ...
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