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Lessons From 9/11 For India Today (news.newamericamedia.org)

Condoleezza Rice has landed in India to show America’s support after the Mumbai attacks. But Raj Jayadev says Indians really need to hear instead from their Indian American cousins who have been... More

Tags: mumbai,attacks,911,diaspora,south asian,india,pakistan,globalization,condoleezza rice,politics

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Pakistan army stages UAV shoot-down exercise (www.armytimes.com)

Pakistan’s army has conducted a military exercise to shoot down drones, the Defense Ministry said Friday in the wake of repeated incidents involving unmanned U.S. drones flying across the border... More

Tags: united states,pakistan,us military,uavs,drones,army air defense,islamabad,punjab province,shortrange missiles,tactical

Submitted 13 days ago by robertharding on OurTroops | 0 Comments |

Back from Pakistan, he wants his job back (www.post-gazette.com)

Arnold Hamovitz has spent nearly all of his adult life working around airplanes. During six years in the Marine Corps, he was an air traffic controller. In the last 20 years with the Air Force... More

Tags: arnold hamovitz,marine corps,airplaines,air traffic controller,air force reserves,airfield manager,pakistan

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Obama: ‘Taking the fight’ to Afghanistan (www.stripes.com)

A worsening war in Afghanistan — and a growing Taliban and al-Qaida insurgency in the tribal areas of nuclear-armed neighboring Pakistan — will loom large on the agenda for President-elect Barack... More

Tags: wars,afghanistan,taliban,alqaeda,pakistan,barack obama,united states,presidency

Submitted 28 days ago by robertharding on OurTroops | 0 Comments |

Pakistan Warns Petraeus on Missile Hits (www.military.com)

Pakistani officials warned Gen. David Petraeus on Monday that frequent missile strikes on militant targets in Pakistan fan anti-American sentiment in an Islamic country vital to the struggle against... More

Tags: pakistan,gen david petraeus,terrorism,afghanistan,united states,us military

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U.S. Strike Said to Kill 7 in Pakistan (www.nytimes.com)

Suspected U.S. drones fired missiles into a Pakistani village early on Thursday, killing at least seven people, residents and an official said, the latest strike on a stronghold of a veteran Taliban... More

Tags: united states,us drones,us air strikes,pakistan,taliban

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Suspected U.S. missile strike kills 6 in Pakistan (www.usatoday.com)

A missile strike by a suspected U.S. drone killed at least six people in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, two Pakistani intelligence officials said Wednesday.

Tags: us,us missile strike,pakistan,afghanistan,us military

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Vietnam, Iraq -- is Pakistan Next? (news.newamericamedia.org) TMC

NEWARK, Calif. — As tensions rise between U.S. and Pakistani military forces in the mountainous Pashtun tribal region along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, outspoken author and political... More

Tags: tmc,nam,vietnam,pakistan,immigrants,marshall plan,government

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Bush Had No Plan to Catch Bin Laden after 9/11 (www.ipsnews.net)

New evidence from former U.S. officials reveals that the George W. Bush administration failed to adopt any plan to block the retreat of Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders from Afghanistan to... More

Tags: george w bush,osama bin laden,alqaeda,911,afghanistan,pakistan

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Afghanistan has seen 'spiral downwards': top US general (news.yahoo.com)

Parts of Afghanistan have seen a "spiral downwards" of violence, the incoming US regional commander said Monday, adding the fight against Taliban forces would continue unabated through the winter.

Tags: general david petraeus,afghanistan,taliban,pakistan

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