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The Guardian: Pakistani militants are exploiting a security vacuum left by the departure of US troops from a swath of eastern Afghanistan to mount attacks inside Pakistan, triggering cross-border violence that has claimed dozens of lives and inflamed already tense relations between Islamabad and Kabul. The Pakistani military on Monday called on the government of Hamid Karzai ...
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NewsMax: The Iranian plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador and blow up the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington is a clear act of war says former Rep. Pete Hoekstra and Newsmax chief Washington correspondent Ronald Kessler — with Kessler adding the plot should be answered with a U.S attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. The plot will ...
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Voice Of America: A Pakistani doctor who allegedly helped the United States in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden is being accused of treason. A Pakistani commission said Thursday that the government should file conspiracy and high treason charges against Shakeel Afridi. Afridi is accused of running a fake vaccination campaign to help U.S. intelligence obtain DNA ...
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The Telegraph: Pakistan has freed a senior al-Qaeda commander, who served as a bodyguard to Osama bin Laden, according to a senior security source, raising fresh questions about the country's commitment to tackling terrorism. Amin al-Haq, who escaped from Afghanistan with the al-Qaeda leader in 2001 and went on to become a key financial aide, was detained ...
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Stripes.com: America won't shy away from using military force if necessary against terrorist groups such as al-Qaida, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday. But the U.S. will also respect the rule of law, she said, including principles guiding the use of force in self-defense, respect for the sovereignty of other states, and the laws ...
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Washington Post: Behind a nondescript door at CIA headquarters, the agency has assembled a new counterterrorism unit whose job is to find al-Qaeda targets in Yemen. A corresponding commotion has been underway in the Arabian Peninsula, where construction workers have been laying out a secret new runway for CIA drones. When the missiles start falling, it ...
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) – A suicide bomber struck a mosque in a Pakistani tribal region during Friday prayers, officials said, killing at least 40 people and wounding 85 others in the deadliest attack in the country in recent weeks. The attack came during the holy month of Ramadan, a time of fasting, sharing and ...
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Financial Times: Pakistan allowed Chinese military engineers to photograph and take samples from the top-secret stealth helicopter that US special forces left behind when they killed Osama bin Laden, the Financial Times has learnt. The action is the latest incident to underscore the increasingly complicated relationship and lack of trust between Islamabad and Washington following the raid. "The ...
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UPDATE: The U.S. Embassy has identified the kidnap victim as contractor Warren Weinstein. Developing... LA Times: Gunmen kidnapped an American from his house in the eastern city of Lahore on Saturday, carrying out an attack that underscores the risk that U.S. citizens and other foreigners face in a country that has been grappling with Islamic militants ...
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Defense News: NEW DELHI - The Pakistan Army has included Chinese troops for the first time in exercises that were conducted along the border with the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan, Indian Defence Ministry sources said. The 101 Engineering Regiment of China's People's Liberation Army is taking part in the exercises, the sources added. No Defence ...
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Fox News: "Obama and Leaders Reach Debt Deal," hailed the New York Times."White House, Congressional leaders reach deal," said the Washington Post."Debt deal: Obama, Hill leaders break through," proclaimed Politico. President Obama on one side of the table. Bipartisan Congressional leaders on the other. But even though those sides conducted most of the negotiating, they represent a small ...
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Fox News: A House panel is considering a bill Wednesday that would suspend billions in foreign aid to several governments in the Middle East and beyond until the Obama administration can certify they are not controlled by groups hostile to the United States and its allies. The bill, which provides the blueprint for U.S. foreign ...
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Politico: NBC reports: Law enforcement sources say the FBI has arrested an agent of Pakistan's official state intelligence service, accusing him of making thousands of dollars in political contributions in the United States without disclosing his connections to the Pakistani government. Syed Ghulam Fai will appear in federal court this afternoon in Alexandria, Va. He's not charged with ...
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The Long War Journal: The Taliban videotaped the brutal execution of more than a dozen Pakistani policemen who were captured during last month's raid in a remote area of northwestern Pakistan. The policemen were captured after the Taliban crossed the border from Kunar province in Afghanistan and attacked police outposts and villages in the Shaltalu area on ...
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Reuters: Pakistan could pull back troops fighting Islamist militants near the Afghan border if the United States cuts off aid, the defense minister said on Tuesday in an interview with Pakistani media. The United States Monday said it would hold back $800 million -- a third of nearly $2 billion in security aid to Pakistan -- ...
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Washington Times: The U.S. has compiled a wide body of intelligence on the locations of militant training camps in Pakistan, but has been unable to persuade Islamabad to shut them down, current and former officials say. A former senior administration official said the biggest concern is a network of camps in North Waziristan from which the Taliban ...
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Guardian: The CIA organised a fake vaccination programme in the town where it believed Osama bin Laden was hiding in an elaborate attempt to obtain DNA from the fugitive al-Qaida leader's family, a Guardian investigation has found. As part of extensive preparations for the raid that killed Bin Laden in May, CIA agents recruited a senior Pakistani ...
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It's hard to believe these treacherous, traitorous little bastards can make such statements with a straight face... Reuters: ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani called on the United States on Sunday to share information about new al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri after U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said he believed that Osama bin Laden's successor was in Pakistan. During his ...
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New York Times: WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is suspending and, in some cases, canceling hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to the Pakistani military, in a move to chasten Pakistan for expelling American military trainers and to press its army to fight militants more effectively. Coupled with a statement from the top American military ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald: Death for a price - would-be suicide bombers cost three times as much as they did two years ago. Militant groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan are trading the lives of would-be suicide bombers for up to $US90,000 ($83,800), three times what they were paying just two years ago. Afghan intelligence arrested a Pakistani man ...
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Google News: WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say Pakistan has apparently tipped off militants at two more bomb-building factories in its tribal areas, giving the terror suspects time to flee, after U.S. intelligence shared the locations with the Pakistani government. Those officials believe Pakistan's insistence on seeking local tribal elders' permission before raiding the areas may have ...
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) – Osama bin Laden's likely replacement was killed in an American drone-fired missile strike close to the Afghan border, the militant group he heads a Pakistani intelligence official said Saturday. Ilyas Kashmiri's death is another blow to Al Qaeda just over a month after bin Laden was killed by American commandos ...
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- With the U.S. looking for a way to reconcile Afghanistan's warring factions and get out, the top U.S. envoy is possibly looking to make a negotiating partner out of Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed Taliban leader. Imtiaz Gul, head of the Center for Research and Security Studies in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, told ...
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