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Gunships and planes strike Pakistan Taliban in Swat
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| An internally displaced girl, fleeing military operations in Buner, holds her sister at a UNHCR camp (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) in Takht Bai , about 150 km (85 miles) north west of Pakistan’s capital Islamabad May 9, 2009. The struggle in the scenic northwestern Swat Valley, which has caused an exodus of refugees fleeing the violence, has become a test of Pakistan’s resolve to fight a growing Taliban insurgency that has alarmed the United States. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood (PAKIST |
| Gunships and planes strike Pakistan Taliban in Swat |
| Reuters — AlertNet | May 09, 2009 | By Junaid Khan |
| MINGORA, Pakistan, May 9 (Reuters) – Pakistani helicopter gunships and warplanes hit Taliban positions in the militants’ Swat Valley stronghold on Saturday, while a curfew prevented civilians from fleeing the fighting.
The struggle in the northwestern valley 130 km (80 miles) from Islamabad has become a test of Pakistan’s resolve to fight a growing insurgency that has alarmed the West. |
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Taliban attack convoy, threatening Pakistan deal
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| A Pakistani army tank patrols in Buner district, where troops recently launched an offensive against militants May 3, 2009. Pakistani security forces killed 16 Taliban militants after coming under attack in a volatile tribal region on the Afghan border on Saturday, the military said. REUTERS/Stringer (PAKISTAN POLITICS MILITARY) |
| Taliban attack convoy, threatening Pakistan deal |
| AP/Yahoo | May 04, 2009 | By ZARAR KHAN |
| ISLAMABAD – Taliban militants attacked an army convoy Monday in a northwestern region covered by an increasingly fragile peace pact, killing one soldier and dealing another blow to an agreement seen in the West as a capitulation to extremists. read more |
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| Pakistani army officers and scientists stand alongside the long-range ballistic missile, Shaheen II, or Hatf VI, before the test flight at an undisclosed location in April 2008. Faced with a surge of Islamic militant activity in Pakistan, the US government is increasingly concerned about the potential vulnerability of the country?s nuclear arsenal, The New York Times reported. (AFP/ISPR/Ho/File) |
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| Displaced people from Pakistan’s Swat valley leave the region on May 2. A peace deal in Pakistan appears close to unravelling as authorities threatened to resume military action while armed Taliban patrolled a key town in defiance of a curfew. (AFP/File/Tariq Mahmood) |
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In Adopting Harsh Tactics, No Inquiry Into Their Past Use
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| A prisoner is escourted. Photo date/place unknown, courtesy Times UK. Photo by PAUL J. RICHARDS. |
| In Adopting Harsh Tactics, No Inquiry Into Their Past Use |
| New York Times | Apr 21, 2009 | By SCOTT SHANE and MARK MAZZETTI |
| WASHINGTON — The program began with Central Intelligence Agency leaders in the grip of an alluring idea: They could get tough in terrorist interrogations without risking legal trouble by adopting a set of methods used on Americans during military training. How could that be torture? read more |
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‘US strike’ on Pakistan militants
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| ‘US strike’ on Pakistan militants |
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| A suspected US missile attack has targeted a Taleban base in north-west Pakistan, say local security officials.
The attack targeted militants in the South Waziristan tribal region, close to the Afghan border, they said. |
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The Political Economy of Taliban Terror in Swat Valley
Women and children in the Swat Valley, Pakistan. Johannes Kalter no date
The Political Economy of Taliban Terror in Swat Valley
The Intelligence Daily | Apr 10, 2009 | By Tom Burghardt
Fury amongst Pakistan’s citizens erupted after a human rights’ group surfaced a video April 3 showing the flogging of a 17-year-old girl in Swat Valley. The vile display was carried out by thugs allied with Baitullah Mehsud’s Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).. . . read more
The beautiful river Swat passing through beautiful forests in Swat valley Pakistan. photo by Atif Gulzar, date unknown, see links for more photos…
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World’s hungry ‘close to one billion’
A fate too horrible to contemplate… yet we must!
World’s hungry ‘close to one billion’
Financial Times, By Javier Blas, Commodities Correspondent Published: December 9 2008 10:04
The food crisis has pushed the number of hungry people in the world to almost 1bn, in what the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation described on Tuesday as a “serious setback” to global efforts to reduce mass starvation.
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US military: 40 tons of Afghan dope (Cannabis) destroyed
Muhammad Ayud has grown cannabis in his village, Khwaja Gholak, since a crackdown on Afghan poppies. He, like many other farmers in Balkh Province, simply switched crops. (Photograph by Max Becherer/Polaris, for The New York Times)
US military: 40 tons of Afghan dope (Cannabis) destroyed
KABUL (AP): Coalition and Afghan troops hunting for Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan discovered a drug lab and destroyed more than 40 tons of hashish on Monday, officials said.
The joint force discovered the drug facility in Kandahar province\’s Spin Boldak district, which borders Pakistan, the U.S. military said in a statement.
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As Taliban Overwhelm Police, Pakistanis Hit Back
Casualties have been high in areas near the Buner Valley. (Map courtesy NY Times)
As Taliban Overwhelm Police, Pakistanis Hit Back
By JANE PERLEZ and PIR ZUBAIR SHAH Published: November 1, 2008 SHALBANDI, Pakistan — On a rainy Friday evening in early August, six Taliban fighters attacked a police post in a village in Buner, a quiet farming valley just outside Pakistan’s lawless tribal region.
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New intelligence report says Pakistan is ‘on the edge’
Not So Delicate Balance
