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October 14, 2008

Florida Student Arrested in Pakistan

Aggregated from: PoliGazette

Pakistani authorities announced on Tuesday that they had arrested an American student. The student from Florida was caught in Pakistan’s tribal region, where foreigners are not allowed to travel. Jude Kenan was arrested in the Charsadda district of the Mohmand Agency in North Waziristan, sa...

September 30, 2008

Pop-pop McCain Proud of Baby Sarah

Aggregated from: KABOBfest

Is it just me or is this the odd couple? In this interview with Katie Couric, the duo look like grandpa's sticking up for his granddaughter against the mean "gotcha" journalists. She recites a very limited array of frames, repeating "terrorists" several times, as he tries to confuse with babble an...

Bush administration moves to defend Halliburton and Cheney

Aggregated from: Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead » USA

The Bush administration moved to prevent Jeff Mazon from making a defense that would most certainly shift the blame from charges he took a bribe to the more important questionable track record of his former employers, Halliburton. In a motion made to U.S. District Judge Joe Billy McDade earlier this...

Why Obama lost the debate with McCain

Aggregated from: JOTMAN

I jotted out the following during the last ten minutes of the debate:McCain has far exceeded my own expectations for his performance in this debate. He sounded remarkably convincing and knowledgeable. Except for when the topic was the economy, my mind more often wandered while Obama spoke. It w...

Pakistan Warns U.S. Again, This Time After Exchanging Fire

Aggregated from: PoliGazette

The situation at the Pakistani - Afghan border is becoming increasingly problematic; where U.S. forces were forced to go back recently because Pakistani soldiers opened fire on them, they now decided to shoot back. According to the U.S. military, Pakistani soldiers opened fire at two U.S. helicopter...

September 27, 2008

McCain and Obama Debate Pakistan Policy

Aggregated from: Haq's Musings

Listen to this article. Powered by Odiogo.com By various estimates, there are about 1.5 million to 2 million American Muslim voters, including several hundred thousand Pakistanis, in the United States. There is a significant concentration of Muslim vote in Florida and Michigan. If, as the anecdot...

September 25, 2008

Will US drone shooting change the Afghan war?

Aggregated from: The Punch: An antidote to the common pabulum. Views with a punch

پاکستاان لیجر | PAKISTAN LEDGER | پاکستاني کھاتا |Sept. 23rd, 08 | Moin Ansari | معین آنصآرّی | On May 1st, 1960 an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. Ironically the U2 took off from the Badabare US Airforce base near Peshawar. At f...

Will US drones defy flying pigs and stop bombing Pakistan?

Aggregated from: The Punch: An antidote to the common pabulum. Views with a punch

پاکستاان لیجر | PAKISTAN LEDGER | پاکستاني کھاتا |Sept. 21, 08 | Moin Ansari | معین آنصآرّی | Is the sway of the US drones over? Will US troops stop landing in Pakistan and shooting people, many of which turned out to be women and children. The US may stop t...

September 17, 2008

Ashdown: Obama may be Afghanistan's best hope

Aggregated from: The World Wants Obama Coalition

Lord Paddy Ashdown, one of the most highly regarded British diplomats, has been critical of the international community's limited committment to Afghanistan and has called for a regional peace conference for Afghanistan, similar to the Dayton conference which successfully laid the framework for peac...

September 10, 2008

US On The Offensive Against Pakistani Talebans

Aggregated from: Desicritics Category: Politics: US

For quite some time now, the United States has come to the realization that Pakistan is not going to take decisive steps to root out the fast strengthening elements of the Taleban and Al-Qaeda in the border regions of Pakistan. These elements get the space in these border regions to regroup from cla...