Al-Qaeda "Hobbled", Key Planner Killed
18 March 2010
, The Washington Post, 18 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Aggressive attacks against al-Qaeda in Pakistan's tribal region have driven Osama bin Laden and his top deputies deeper into hiding and disrupted their ability to plan sophisticated operations, CIA Director Leon Panetta said Wednesday. So profound is al-Qaeda's disarray that one of its lieutenants, in a recently...
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US Reconsiders Approach to Aid Projects
18 March 2010
, Foreign Policy, 17 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Thanks in no small part to Biden, who pushed legislation to massively increase civilian aid, Congress last fall passed the so-called Kerry-Lugar-Berman bill authorizing the expenditure of $7.5 billion in Pakistan over the next five years. Nowhere else does so much hang on the success or failure of development assistance. [...] The money will start flowing in the next few...
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UN Relies on Local Mills to Combat Hunger
18 March 2010
UN Agency Uses Local Mills in Pakistan's Swat Valley to Improve Access to Food, UN News Service, 17 March 2010
EXCERPT: "The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced today that it has contracted eight mills in Pakistan's conflict-affected Swat Valley to produce fortified wheat flour in a bid to boost the local economy and make food more easily accessible to families in the area. [...] 'The combination of conflict and...
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Unlawful Killing with Combat Drones: A Case Study of Pakistan, 2004-2009
18 March 2010
Unlawful Killing with Combat Drones: A Case Study of Pakistan, 2004-2009, Notre Dame Legal Studies Paper via the Social Science Research Network, 20 December 2009
EXCERPT: "First drones launch missiles or drop bombs, the kind of weapons that may only be used lawfully in an armed conflict. Until the spring of 2009, there was no armed conflict on the territory of Pakistan because there was no intense armed fighting between organized armed...
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