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Task Force to Focus on Afghan Roadside Bomb Threat
OSHKOSH, Wisc: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has created a new task force to enhance existing department efforts to counter the threat from roadside bombs, the No. 1 killer in Afghanistan. Gates announced the new task force today, and said he expects its members to spend the next six months reporting to him about the [...]
Bombs kill 11 in Pakistan, intel agency targeted
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Suicide car bombs tore through security offices in Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 11 people and heavily damaging the Peshawar headquarters of the country’s top intelligence agency. The deadly assaults on Pakistan’s police and intelligence agents come with 30,000 troops pressing their most ambitious offensive to date against homegrown Taliban networks in [...]
Pakistan rejects report questioning nuclear weapons’ safety
Islamabad: Pakistan on Sunday angrily rejected a media report that raised fears of a militant takeover of the Taliban-hit nation’s nuclear weapons and suggested that the US had a hand in protecting the arsenal. In the latest issue of The New Yorker magazine, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh wrote that US officials had negotiated pacts with [...]
Street battles as Pakistan troops advance on Taliban
Islamabad: Pakistani troops were Wednesday locked in deadly street battles with Taliban fighters, pushing a ground offensive deeper into militant-held territory, the military said. A senior military official told AFP the army had “taken” the strategic town of Sararogha in the third week of fighting, while 30 Islamist insurgents were reported killed in the last [...]
UN Questions Legality of US Use of Drones
UNITED NATIONS: The U.N. Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings says the use of armed unmanned aircraft by the United States to hunt down terrorists could be a violation of international law. Philip Alston said Tuesday that Washington must explain how it is sure the United States is not killing people indiscriminately with these aircraft. U.S. [...]
Gates Receives ‘Mounting Endorsements’ of Strategy Proposals
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today he’s encouraged by unofficial endorsements NATO defense ministers are expressing for Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s strategy proposals for Afghanistan, along with indications they’re considering additional resources to support the mission there. Gates, here for a NATO ministerial, emphasized that he is in a “listening mode” and [...]
Pakistan suicide attack kills six near air base
ISLAMABAD: A suicide bomber blew himself up near a Pakistan Air Force base Friday, killing six people and dealing another blow to a beleaguered military pressing an offensive against the Taliban. The blast ripped through a busy main road during the morning rush hour in the town of Kamra, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) west [...]
Pakistan targets Taliban leaders
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan: Pakistan vowed on Monday to target Taliban leaders and deal a killer blow to the Islamists as it pressed a major offensive Western military chiefs said was key to regional stability. The army said 78 militants had been killed in the operation which presents the military with its biggest challenge yet [...]
German Military Guns Reportedly Sold Illegally On Black Market
German military pistols are being sold on the black market in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The weapons were sent in 2006 and were intended for local police and army personnel. Arms dealers in the region told German public radio that hundreds of German weapons were for sale carrying a price tag of over 680 euros a [...]
