Drone Strikes Impressively Accurate and Effective: Report
12 November 2010
New Light on the Accuracy of the CIA's Predator Drone Campaign in Pakistan, The Jamestown Foundation // Global Terrorism Analysis, 11 November 2010
EXCERPT: "Widely-cited reports of the inaccuracy and disproportionality of civilian to militant deaths in the CIA's ongoing Predator drone campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Pakistan are grossly misleading. The most detailed database compiled to date, assembled by the authors of...
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"Growing Turbulence" in Military Environments Worrisome for US
12 November 2010
America vs al-Qaida: The Widening War, OpenDemocracy, 11 November 2010
EXCERPT: "The signals of growing turbulence in a range of military environments - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen and beyond - send a worrying message to Washington. The month of October 2010 saw a notable change in the Pentagon's mood in three of its areas of central strategic concern: the conflict with the Taliban in Afghanistan, the pursuit of the al-Qaida leadership ...
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Militants Storm Anti-terrorist Police HQ in Karachi, Kill 20
12 November 2010
Karachi CID Building Hit by Bomb and Gun Attack, BBC News, 11 November 2010
EXCERPT: "An attack on anti-terrorist police headquarters in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, has left 20 dead and at least 100 injured. Police say they exchanged fire with militants trying to storm the Criminal Investigation Department building. Then a truck laden with explosives slammed into its boundary wall, detonated its load and almost completely destroyed...
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Independent Task Force Analyzes US Strategy on Pakistan and Afghanistan
12 November 2010
Independent Task Force Conditionally Supports U.S. Policy in Pakistan, Afghanistan, but Argues for Changing Strategy Absent Progress, Council on Foreign Relations, 12 November 2010
EXCERPT: "Ahead of President Obama's December review of the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan, a new Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)-sponsored Independent Task Force report on U.S. Strategy for Pakistan and Afghanistan finds that the current approach to...
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