Word: afghanistan
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...never mind fired - for such snafus. "Fundamentally reforming acquisitions, above all, calls on us to foster a culture and practice of accountability - accountability with regard to industry and within the walls of this building as well," Gates said at the Pentagon. (See pictures of the U.S. Marines' offensive in Afghanistan...
...before then, he said, he will be deployed to Afghanistan within months of his graduation from Cambridge...
...found a shortcut back to power - and, especially in the wake of Senator Evan Bayh's planned retirement, has a chance to win control of Congress in 2010 - by positioning itself as Obama's automatic resistance. When its policy stances match those of the President (the surge in Afghanistan, a deficit-reduction commission), it has registered its support through clenched teeth and muted statements - or even abandoned its previous postures - lest it build up Obama...
...mention misplaced - given that last fall, Congress enacted the Kerry-Lugar bill granting Pakistan over $7.5 billion in economic aid over the next five years. In addition, Pakistan receives military hardware and training to combat Pakistani Taliban - whose wrath is focused on Islamabad - in the mountainous borderlands with Afghanistan...
...decidedly not. In 1979, for example, Pakistani radio falsely reported that U.S. aircraft bombed Islam's holiest site in Mecca, prompting a mob to storm the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, killing five American and Pakistani staffers. This simmering hostility was stirred again after the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 and boiled over, more recently, with drone missile strikes inside Pakistan's tribal territory in which dozens of suspected terrorists - and civilians - died. The Feb. 3 conviction in New York City of a Pakistani woman scientist, Aafia Siddiqui, nicknamed Lady al-Qaeda, on charges of trying to shoot...