Deadly Suicide Attack Strikes Security Checkpost in Swat
15 March 2010
Taliban Claims Deadly Suicide Attack in Pakistan, CNN, 13 March 2010
EXCERPT: "The Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed at least 13 people and injured dozens in the northwest part of the country Saturday, authorities said. The attack at a security checkpoint in the city of Saidu Sharif injured 37, according to Ibrahim Khan, a police official in the Swat District, where the military launched an offensive...
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Contractors Involved in Operation to Track and Kill Militants
15 March 2010
, The New York Times, 14 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, according to military officials and businessmen in Afghanistan and the United States. The official, Michael D....
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Taliban Fighters Killed in Airstrike
15 March 2010
, AFP, 14 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Helicopter gunships pounded Taliban hideouts in Pakistan's northwestern tribal district Sunday, killing at least 13 militants, officials said. The shelling destroyed three militant hideouts and two houses of Taliban commanders in the Orakzai region, military and administration officials said. The gunships targeted hideouts in Ferozkhel, a village...
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Targets Achieved, South Waziristan Operation to End
15 March 2010
Military to End South Waziristan Operation, DAWN, 15 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Military leadership told political leaders on Monday that major targets in the South Waziristan operation had been achieved and therefore the military would be formally ending its operation on March 30 and handing over control to the civil administration. The decision was taken at a high level meeting held at the presidency chaired by President Asif Ali Zardari...
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Taliban Vow to Continue Attacks Despite Setbacks
15 March 2010
US Drone Strikes, Forcing Militants Underground, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Some Pakistan Taliban members in the tribal areas say the onslaught of US drone attacks and Pakistani offensives in recent months is forcing the group underground and creating fractures. But they threatened to maintain their own suicide and car bomb campaign ? a threat borne out over the past week in a string of suicide bombs in Lahore...
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NATO Must Stop the Cross Border Movement of Taliban: ISI
15 March 2010
Pakistan Intelligence Calls for Afghan Border to Be Closed, Telegraph, 15 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Major General Athar Abbas, director general of Inter-Services Intelligence, said that a cross-border flow into Afghanistan was hampering its campaign to crush the Taliban. 'We are at full stretch. I have to say that the border is a joint responsibility,' he said in a presentation to the Royal United Services Institute, a London think...
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