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A perfect terrorist

by News Sources 11.24.2011

Watch A Perfect Terrorist on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE. See also Sebastian Rotella’s companion article in ProPublica, The American behind India’s 9/11—and how U.S. botched chances to stop him.

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Saleem Shahzad’s murder, al Qaeda, and the ISI

by News Sources 09.14.2011

Dexter Filkins writes: I met Saleem Shahzad nine days before he disappeared, and he seemed to know that his time was running out. It was May 20th, and Islamabad was full of conspiracy theories about the Abbottabad raid: bin Laden was still alive; Kiyani and Pasha had secretly helped the Americans with the raid. Mostly, [...]

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US-Pakistan relations worsen with arrest of two alleged spies

by News Sources 07.19.2011

The Guardian reports: Relations between Washington and Islamabad deteriorated further when the US justice department charged two men alleged to have been in the pay of the Pakistan intelligence service. One was involved with the Kashmiri American Council, through which it is alleged that Pakistan channelled millions of dollars to influence members of the US [...]

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Black ops and blood money

by News Sources 07.14.2011

Matthew Teague writes: Hearing the American’s name whispered in his ear, the chief of police in Lahore, Pakistan, turns from his desk and nods toward a nondescript side door in his office. His desk sits surrounded by concentric rings of chairs, occupied by visitors hoping for a moment of Chief Aslam Tareen’s time. Lahore is [...]

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David Headley saves his own life in a Chicago courtroom

by News Sources 07.13.2011

Liz Mermin writes: The United States District Court of the Northern District of Illinois is an enormous glass cube of a building that occupies an entire block in downtown Chicago. When I arrive there on a cold and wet afternoon in the middle of May, the lobby is scattered with bomb-sniffing dogs and dozens of [...]

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Pakistan hits back at US commander over journalist’s murder claim

by News Sources 07.09.2011

The Guardian reports: Pakistan has lashed out at America’s top-ranking military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, on Friday, saying that its relations with the US have been further damaged by his remarks blaming the Islamabad government for the killing, torture and murder of a Pakistani journalist. The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff shocked Islamabad [...]

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US officials say ISI murdered Pakistani journalist

by News Sources 07.04.2011

The New York Times reports: Obama administration officials believe that Pakistan’s powerful spy agency ordered the killing of a Pakistani journalist who had written scathing reports about the infiltration of militants in the country’s military, according to American officials. New classified intelligence obtained before the May 29 disappearance of the journalist, Saleem Shahzad, 40, from [...]

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Pakistani military still cultivates militant groups, a former fighter says

by News Sources 07.04.2011

The New York Times reports: The Pakistani military continues to nurture a broad range of militant groups as part of a three-decade strategy of using proxies against its neighbors and American forces in Afghanistan, but now some of the fighters it trained are questioning that strategy, a prominent former militant commander says. The former commander [...]

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Pakistan’s chief of army fights to keep his job

by News Sources 06.16.2011

The New York Times reports: Pakistan’s army chief, the most powerful man in the country, is fighting to save his position in the face of seething anger from top generals and junior officers since the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden, according to Pakistani officials and people who have met the chief in recent [...]

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Pakistan arrests CIA informants in Bin Laden raid

by News Sources 06.15.2011

The New York Times reports: Pakistan’s top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, according to American officials. Pakistan’s detention of five C.I.A. informants, including a Pakistani [...]

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Prominent journalist Saleem Shahzad murdered after exposing ties between Pakistan’s navy and al Qaeda

by Paul Woodward 06.01.2011

Declan Walsh reports: A prominent Pakistani journalist who investigated links between the military and al-Qaida has been found dead, triggering angry accusations against the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency. Saleem Shahzad, Pakistan correspondent for a news service based in Hong Kong, disappeared on his way to a television interview in Islamabad on Sunday evening. On [...]

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