US Mulls Adding Pakistan Taliban to Terror List
11 May 2010
, AFP, 11 May 2010
EXCERPT: "The United States said Tuesday it was mulling whether to blacklist Pakistan's Taliban as a foreign terrorist organization [complete list from the US Department of State] after it was implicated in the failed Times Square bombing. The State Department designation would freeze any US assets of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, ban Americans from funding or...
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N. Waziristan on the Agenda, Poses Operational Challenges: General
11 May 2010
Pakistan Push in N. Waziristan Needs Time: General, Daily Times, 11 May 2010
EXCERPT: "Pakistani forces, under US pressure to enter North Waziristan, will do so but in their own time and when adequate resources are available, Lieutenant General Sardar Mahmood Ali Khan, deputy chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Monday. [...] Speaking on the sidelines of a conference in Jordan of special operations force commanders, Mahmood...
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Court Dismisses Taliban Extradition Challenge
11 May 2010
Pakistan Court Dismisses Taliban Extradition Challenge, Reuters, 11 May 2010
EXCERPT: "A Pakistani court on Tuesday threw out a petition seeking to block the extradition of the Afghan Taliban's No. 2 leader and other senior commanders detained in Pakistan, a lawyer said. U.S. ally Pakistan captured at least four Afghan Taliban leaders, including top military strategist Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, early this year. The Afghan government...
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Drones Strike N. Waziristan, Kill at Least 24
11 May 2010
US Missiles Kill at Least 24 in Pakistan, Reuters, 11 May 2010
EXCERPT: "U.S. drone aircraft killed at least 24 suspected militants in two attacks on Tuesday in Pakistan's North Waziristan, a major al Qaeda and Taliban sanctuary, Pakistani security officials said. It was the fourth drone missile strike on militants in northwest Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan, since a failed bid to set off a car bomb in New York's Times Square...
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