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• Pakistani agents re-arrest American
KHAR, Pakistan - Pakistani intelligence agents re-arrested an American detained in the country's volatile Afghan border region and were questioning him, police said Wednesday. The man — identified by police as Jude Kenan — was carrying a laptop ...
• U.S. military: No. 2 al-Qaida in Iraq chief killed
U.S. military officials said Abu Qaswarah, whose real name was unavailable, was a key figure in the al-Qaida network with ties to the movement's global leadership in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he trained. That suggested that many of al-Qaida in ...
• 51 reported killed in Pakistan fighting
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Clashes between Taliban militants and security forces killed 51 people, including 47 militants in a volatile region on the border with Afghanistan, officials said. Fighting is spreading across Pakistan's northwest as the ...
• Pakistan: U.S. missile attacks helping terrorists
ISLAMBAD, Pakistan - U.S. missile attacks on suspected militants in Pakistan's northwest near Afghanistan are undermining the war on terror and "helping the terrorists," the Muslim nation's Foreign Ministry said Friday. The comments came as a suicide ...
• Newer vaccine may be better for polio hot spots
Although eradicated from most of the globe, polio can still be found in northern Nigeria, northern India and along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. In 2007, 1,310 cases were reported worldwide, according the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...