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		<title>Petraeus Faints During Senate Grilling</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arshad Zaman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times &#124; By By Thom Shanker &#124; 15 June 2010 Petraeus Appears to Faint During Senate Testimony WASHINGTON — The commander of American forces in the Middle East. Gen. David H. Petraeus, appeared to faint briefly during an intense period of questioning Tuesday by senators concerning whether the military can fulfill President Obama’s [...]


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		<title>Republican, Mark Kirk, to Seek Obama&#8217;s Senate Seat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arshad Zaman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal &#124; By Douglas Belkin &#124; 3 February 2010 Kirk Wins Illinois Republican Primary CHICAGO &#8212; In the first midterm election of the year, with the U.S. Senate seat once occupied by President Barack Obama up for grabs, voters sent a moderate five-term congressman from a wealthy suburb to face off against a [...]


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		<title>Fond Illusions: The &#8220;$10 Taliban&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arshad Zaman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TIME &#124; By Mark Thompson &#124; Washington 14 August 2009 An Afghanistan Exit Strategy: Buying Off the Taliban? By measure both of blood and of treasure, the war in Afghanistan is a costly business. To date, 782 U.S. troops have been killed there, and the conflict is costing Washington $4 billion a month. Is that [...]


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		<title>The Extra-Judicial Killing of Baitullah Mehsud</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arshad Zaman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The assassination of Baitullah Mehsud By James Cogan &#124; 8 August 2009 The American political establishment and media, along with Washington’s client government in Islamabad, are reveling in the reports that missiles launched from an unmanned US Predator drone on Wednesday killed 39-year-old Pakistani tribal leader Baitullah Mehsud at his father-in-law’s residence in the agency [...]


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		<title>America&#8217;s Information War on Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arshad Zaman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Persian Ploy by Jeff Huber, July 14, 2009 A July 5 story by David Sanger of the New York Times typifies how completely our mainstream media have been bulldozed by the warmongery’s propaganda machine. &#8220;Despite Crisis, Policy on Iran Is Engagement&#8221; states that &#8220;the accelerating crackdown on opposition leaders in Iran&#8221; will not deter [...]


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		<title>Kerry-Lugar Bill Now Explicitly Provides for Governing Pakistan through Expatriates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arshad Zaman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Pakistan to be governed according to the will of the people of Pakistan – without manipulation by U.S. coercion, finance, or propaganda – or to the wishes of American business, industry, and finance? This is the key dilemma of U.S. foreign policy in Pakistan (and elsewhere): what mixture, in other words, of capitalism and [...]


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		<title>Notes on the US Budget for FY 2010 as it Affects Afghanistan and Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arshad Zaman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[See Also Notes on the US Budget for FY2011 as it Affects Afghanistan and Pakistan An earlier post, based on numbers provided by Budget Insight, a Stimson Center Blog on National Security Spending, had taken a preliminary look at the FY2010 US defense budget request, and its implications for Pakistan and Afghanistan. This post adds [...]


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		<title>Feingold to Obama: Prolonged Detention &#8220;Likely Unconstitutional&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 16:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arshad Zaman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While publicly supporting US President Obama against former Vice President Cheney, Senator Feingold, a Democrat member of the Senate Intelligence, Judiciary and Foreign Relations Committees, has written the following letter to Obama defending civil liberties. Meanwhile, Obama is also drawing fire from the right: distinguished neo-conservative journalist, Charles Krauthammer, has also written a scathing piece [...]


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		<title>Pakistan is India&#8217;s Primary Enemy &#8212; Pravda</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 11:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arshad Zaman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in Pravda on 12 May 2009, Vladimir Anokhin maintains that &#8220;while China can also be a threat&#8221; to India, &#8220;Pakistan is India’s primary potential enemy&#8220;. This contrasts sharply with the aggressive insistence by the United States that Pakistan must demonstrate by voice and deed that one set of militant criminals &#8211; not all, for as we all know, after Musharraf&#8217;s [...]


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		<title>Transcript of Senators Levin and McCain&#8217;s Questions on Pakistan and Drones, and Gates&#8217; and Mullen&#8217;s Answers at the Armed Services Committee Hearing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 05:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arshad Zaman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Senate Committee on Armed Services conducted a full committee hearing on Thursday 14 May 2009, to receive testimony in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2010 and the Future Years Defense Program. What appears below is a rough selective transcript (from live webcast), of the discussion on Pakistan, in the [...]


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