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Flushing Blackwater »
Posted by: tehranchik 2 months, 3 weeks ago in Political Opinion
Recent disclosures of Blackwater's covert activities may finally force Congress to take action.
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Blackwater, the private mercenary company owned by Erik Prince, has been ...Read (120) | Share | Discuss (5) | Read Full Story at thenation.com
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US troops ordered out of Kyrgyzstan after Russia deal - Telegraph »
Posted by: gamahuche 9 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the president of Kyrgyzstan, announced he was ordering the eviction of troops from the Manas Air Base near the capital city Bishkek shortly ...
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Pakistan to install scanning machines at airports for A/H1N1 flu control »
Posted by: altnrg 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Health & Fitness
Pakistan's health ministry will install scanning machines on all the international airports to stop increasing cases of A/H1N1 flu in Pakistan, according to ...
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Washington Post Flops »
Posted by: tehranchik 3 months ago in Political Opinion
This is a media rant. I'm not one of those people who are constantly berating the media (the so-called "mainstream media") for their failings ...
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Terror suspects were tortured in Pakistan under UK policy »
Posted by: berkeley 9 months, 1 week ago in News
A policy governing the interrogation of terrorism suspects in Pakistan that led to British citizens and residents being tortured was devised by MI5 lawyers and ...
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Pakistan's Islamic Schools Fill Void, but Fuel Militancy »
Posted by: engineer 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Religion
But if the state has forgotten the children here, the mullahs have not. With public education in a shambles, Pakistan’s poorest families have turned ...
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Loose nukes in Pakistan: how real is the risk? »
Posted by: Klarissa 6 months, 1 week ago in News
International Institute for Strategic Studies 14 May 2009 - - Reuters:
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- Mark Fitzpatrick, director of the Non-proliferation and Disarmament Programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies ...Read (265) | Share | Discuss (12) | Read Full Story at iiss.org
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Pakistan army: 1.3 million fled fighting in NW »
Posted by: orndorffter 6 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Pakistani commandos dropped from helicopters behind Taliban lines in the Swat Valley on Tuesday in a widening offensive that the military said has lifted the ...
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The Taliban get their first wish »
Posted by: tehranchik 9 months ago in Political News
A key factor in the Taliban's revival after being driven from power by US-led forces in 2001 was that from 2004 they established a ...
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What Obama Couldn't Say About Af-Pak »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
What about detainees? Currently we're holding some 600 of them at Afghanistan's Bagram air base--aka "Afghanistan's Guantanamo"-- with plans for a major ...
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Why People Fight? »
Posted by: rockurbody 8 months ago in News
This question arises several times whenever you come across any kind of fighting. Whether, it is the fight between USA and Afghanistan, China and Tibet ...
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Truthdig - The American Empire Is Bankrupt »
Posted by: dissent 5 months, 1 week ago in News
This week marks the end of the dollar’s reign as the world’s reserve currency. It marks the start of a terrible period of ...
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The Afghanistan Abyss »
Posted by: tehranchik 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
“Our policy makers do not understand that the very presence of our forces in the Pashtun areas is the problem,” the group said in a ...
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Pakistan case gives glimpse into US terror suspect »
Posted by: orndorffter 3 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Nearly two decades ago, an Islamic court sentenced Daniel Patrick Boyd to lose a hand and foot as punishment for robbing a bank in Pakistan ...
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The Obama Wars »
Posted by: populist 9 months, 4 weeks ago in Political News
So once again, we must ask the question. What are we doing over there? Is it a “police action”? Clintonesque “nation-building” like Somalia and Yugoslavia ...
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