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BAGHDAD - Two women described as mentally disabled and strapped with remote-control explosives — and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers — brought carnage Friday to two pet bazaars, killing at least 91 people in the deadliest day since Washington flooded the capital wi …

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Shehzad Tanweer, one of the London bombers, July 8, 2006 (the first anniversary of the London bombings):

There are reports coming out of Pakistan that a high school in Peshawar, Pakistan is being held hostage by gunmen that are demanding safe passage out of Pakistan. It is being reported by FoxNews that 250 students are said to be involved in the incident.

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WASHINGTON — The top two American intelligence officials traveled secretly to Pakistan early this month to press President Pervez Musharraf to allow the Central Intelligence Agency greater latitude to operate in the tribal territories where Al Qaeda, the Taliban and other milit …

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It took explosives to do what diplomacy couldn't: allow Palestinians to go on a shopping spree.

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Islamabad: Dozens of retired generals, admirals and air marshals have urged Pakistan's President Musharraf to immediately step down, saying his resignation would promote democracy and help combat religious militancy, a member of the grouping said Wednesday.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The Pakistani military pounded an extremist stronghold Sunday near the Afghan border where a rebel leader blamed for the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is believed to be hiding, officials and witnesses said.

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artificial measures only accentuate the natural fall out from man made disasters. The Shahadat of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, to the myopic mind set of the fundamentalists, the extremists, the militants, may be just a death.

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WASHINGTON - A former congressman and delegate to the United Nations was indicted Wednesday as part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than $130,000 to an al-Qaida and Taliban supporter who has threatened U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan.

Source: The New York Times
As the military has moved against them, the militants have turned on their former handlers, the officials said.

Is now the time for my generation, the under-30's, to become the next Greatest Generation?

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LAHORE, Pakistan - A suicide bomber exploded among police guarding the front of a court in eastern Pakistan ahead of a planned protest by lawyers Thursday, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens more, officials and witnesses said.

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TEHRAN, Iran - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad presented Iran's budget to parliament Monday, promising it would curb a sharp rise in inflation and redistribute Iran's abundant oil revenues among the country's 70 million people.

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BAGHDAD (AFP) - US and Iraqi forces launched a fresh assault against Al-Qaeda militants on Tuesday, the US military announced, as members of an American-backed neighbourhood militia came under attack in Baghdad.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Suspected Islamic militants fatally shot eight tribal leaders involved in efforts to broker a cease-fire between security forces and insurgents in Pakistan's volatile northwest, authorities said Monday.

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KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Islamic council has told President Hamid Karzai to stop foreign aid groups from converting locals to Christianity and also demanded the reintroduction of public executions.

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The assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto drew widespread international condemnation today, with governments and political leaders denouncing it as a blow to democratic aspirations and calling for renewed efforts against extremists.

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NOUAKCHOTT (AFP) - Prosecutors in Mauritania investigating the murder of four French tourists said Tuesday they believed that there may be a link with Al-Qaeda's North African affiliate.

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KABUL (AFP) - Afghanistan has ordered a top European Union official and a United Nations staffer to leave the country for threatening national security, government and diplomatic officials said Tuesday.

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - More than five billion dollars in US aid to Pakistan has often never reached the military units it was intended for to fight Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, and was instead diverted to other programs, the New York Times reported Monday.

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A suicide attacker detonated a bomb early Friday at a mosque outside the home of Pakistan's former interior minister as he received visitors on an Islamic holiday, killing at least 35 people and wounding dozens more, authorities said.

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Thousands of protesters in Sudan are demanding that a British woman be put to death for blasphemy after allowing her class to name a teddy bear "Mohammed."

Source: The Times
The saga of the teddy bear is really a story of a scapegoat and of cynical political manipulation...
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Source: Guardian Unlimited
A special US mission to the embattled Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf ended in failure yesterday, and the Bush administration is increasingly alarmed about the possible collapse of the government.

Source: The Boston Globe
FOR THE United States - and especially for President Bush, who holds such romantic ideas about the transformative powers of democracy - the sight of an ally in the war on terror beating up prodemocracy demonstrators in the streets of Pakistan, arresting lawyers and rival politici …