Mehsud Strikes New York / Flogging
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Tom Feeley
Mehsud Strikes New York / Flogging
Taliban says it was behind US attack:
Pakistan's top Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud has claimed responsibility
for the shootings at an US immigration services centre in New York state
that killed 13 people.
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5476588/taliban-says-attack/
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Pakistan 'helps US drone attacks':
AMERICA and Pakistan have begun a joint operation to kill the head of the
Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud.
http://snipurl.com/f8kb1
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Taliban Commander Baitullah Mehsud:
Baitullah Mehsud is a natural leader: cagey, dogged and charismatic, with an
apparent knack for uniting disparate factions around a common cause. But
instead of channeling those talents toward building an empire, Mehsud is
trying to bring one to its knees.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1889286,00.html?xid=rss-world
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Pakistans North West Frontier Province (NWFP) 'at war', governance
becoming difficult:
Hoti said the NWFP was suffering from insurgency, terrorism, internal
displacement, shortage of food and decline in the efficiency of the law
enforcement agencies.
http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=200943story_3-4-2009_pg1_4
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$3bn US plan to train Pakistan military:
The funds would pay for helicopters, night-vision goggles and other
equipment and counterinsurgency training for Pakistan's special operations
forces and Frontier Corps paramilitary troops, the New York Times said.
http://snipurl.com/f8kda
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Video Showing Beating Of Girl Shakes Pakistan Peace Accord (VIDEO):
Pakistani authorities ordered inquiries Friday into a video showing the
public flogging of a screaming woman in a northwestern valley where
officials have yielded to Taliban demands for Islamic law.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/03/video-showing-beating-of-_n_183084.html
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Pakistan: Flogging video 'an attempt to undermine Swat peace deal':
The release of a video showing a 17-year-old girl being brutally flogged in
public is a deliberate attempt to sabotage the peace deal signed with the
Taliban in Pakistan's troubled northwestern Swat valley, according to North
West Frontier Province's information minister, Mian Iftikhar.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3175747742
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