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The second-highest ranking U.S. general in Afghanistan said Monday the planned rapid escalation of American troops would take longer than expected to carry out, indicating it will probably be nine to 11 months before they are all in place.
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A day after the emir of Kuwait sent his royal jet to fetch a citizen from Guantanamo, the Pentagon has dropped war crimes charges against the Kuwaiti Airways executive who has long claimed he was a victim of mistaken identity.
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. is working aggressively with Pakistan to prevent the American troop surge in Afghanistan from pushing insurgents across the border, a top diplomat said.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- The Afghan Taliban was damaged in Pakistan by national forces to the extent that the group no longer poses a threat, the Pakistani defense minister said.
The al-Qaida extremist killed Tuesday by a U.S. drone strike in northern Pakistan was the group's director of external operations, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official told NBC News on Friday.
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Richard Holbrooke, U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing today, that the U.S. is working aggressively with Pakistan to prevent the American troop surge in Afghanistan from pushing insurgents across the border.
A senior Al-Qaeda leader has been killed in a drone strike in northwest Pakistan, a US official told AFP on Friday.
A federal judge on Thursday ruled the Defense Department in contempt of court for failing to videotape the testimony of a Guantanamo Bay detainee so that the public and the news media could see it.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. government official says a top al-Qaida operative has been killed in a drone attack in western Pakistan.
Washington, 11 December (WashingtonTV)—A top al-Qaida leader was killed on Thursday in an attack by a drone aircraft in northwest Pakistan, NBC News reported, citing unnamed US officials.
A U.S. government official says a top al-Qaeda operative has been killed in a drone attack in western Pakistan.
(RTTNews) - A top al-Qaeda operative has been reportedly killed in a drone attack in north-west Pakistan, a US government official said Thursday.
WASHINGTON -- A U.S. government official says a top al-Qaida operative has been killed in a drone attack in western Pakistan. The official would not immediately identify the target of the attack, which he said occurred very recently.
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