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US mulls Predator strikes in Pakistani cities: reportWashington (AFP) Dec 13, 2009 Senior US officials are pushing to expand CIA drone strikes beyond Pakistan's tribal region and into a major city in an attempt to pressure the Pakistani government to pursue Taliban leaders based in the city of Quetta, The Los Angeles Times reported late Sunday. The newspaper said the prospect of Predator aircraft strikes in Quetta signals a new US resolve to decapitate the Taliban. But it also risks rupturing Washington's relationship with Islamabad. The concern has created tension among officials in the administration of President Barack Obama ... read more |
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Bangkok (AFP) Dec 15, 2009A Thai court on Monday extended the detention of the crew of a plane that flew a cache of heavy weapons out of North Korea, as Washington hailed the seizure as proof sanctions were effective. The 30-tonne load, including missiles and rocket-propelled grenades, was discovered after a Belarussian pilot and four Kazakh crew landed to refuel at Bangkok's domestic Don Mueang airport on Friday. ... more  
Washington (UPI) Dec 14, 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama has scaled back the scope of the Afghan war, now about to enter its ninth year, to a limited military objective: deny al-Qaida a safe haven. And since we are now told there are fewer than 100 al-Qaida terrorists in Afghanistan -- the rest are in Pakistan's tribal areas -- a three-way deal between the Karzai government, powerful warlords and Taliban chief Mullah ... more 
London (AFP) Dec 14, 2009Iran is working towards testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb, British newspaper The Times said Monday, citing confidential documents. The daily said it had obtained notes describing a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator, the component of a nuclear bomb which triggers an explosion. The Times claimed that foreign intelligence agencies dated the documents to early 2007 ... more |
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Sanaa, Yemen (UPI) Dec 14, 2009 Al-Qaida is currently circulating a gruesome videotape showing the interrogation and execution of a senior Yemeni intelligence officer, Col. Suleiman Tarbush, kidnapped in June, as a warning to Muslims who collaborate with the United States and Israel. In Iraq, an al-Qaida suicide bomber last week assassinated Lt. Col. Ahmed Subhi al-Fahal, one of the country's top counter-terrorism ... more 
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 14, 2009China's Vice President Xi Jinping on Monday kicked off an Asia tour in Japan, where a row has broken out over a breach of protocol for his hastily arranged meeting with Emperor Akihito. Xi, who is widely expected to succeed Hu Jintao as China's president in 2012, is on his first visit to Japan since he took office in March 2008. The government has drawn criticism for extending special ... more 
Washington (AFP) Dec 14, 2009Most of the 30,000 US troops who make up President Barack Obama's "surge" of forces in Afghanistan likely will be in place by the end of summer 2010, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday. "A large majority will be there in the end of the summer," said Colonel Dave Lapan at a Department of Defense press conference. Lapan added however that "a few thousand" of the troops likely would not ... more |
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