Word: afghanization
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...problem for newly elected President Asif Ali Zardari is that preventing terrorism while maintaining ties with Washington means reconciling a growing number of contradictions. American impatience with Pakistan's faltering campaign against militants on the nation's Afghan border has led U.S. forces to launch raids into Pakistani territory--raids that Zardari believes will alienate border tribes, sour relations with Pakistan's mercurial army and anger the public. The paradox is beginning to turn nasty. Two days after the bombing, U.S. helicopters seeking to cross the border were repulsed by gunfire from Pakistani troops and local tribesmen...
...converged on the former Prime Minister's grave in the southern province of Sindh on Saturday to mark the first anniversary of her assassination. The other large mass movement was composed of Pakistani troops fanning out along the border with India - many reportedly abandoning their positions near the Afghan border - as the drumbeat of potential war between the two nuclear-armed South Asian countries grew louder. And as soldiers and the political faithful took their positions, mourning, anxiety and a measure of defiance merged. For chaotic, crisis-racked Pakistan, it was a time to mourn and, perhaps, almost a time...
...younger players, Daniel Murphy and Nick Evans, sitting patiently with an equally young double amputee who talked a blue streak but couldn't remember where he was serving when he was wounded. We also met several of the extraordinary soldiers who were badly wounded while holding their Afghan firebase against an overwhelming Taliban assault last July. The Mets crashed, yet again, at the end of the season, but they earn a Teddy for remembering the troops. "It's nothing compared to what they did," the pitcher Pedro Martinez said afterward. Yes, but it deserves recognition--as do the daily sacrifices...
...London Terrorism Conviction A British court convicted Bilal Abdulla, an Iraqi doctor, of planning the foiled 2007 car bombings in London and at Glasgow Airport. An accomplice, Kafeel Ahmed, died in the failed airport attack, intended to punish Britain for its role in the Afghan and Iraq wars. A third man, Mohammed Asha, was cleared of any involvement...
...Biddle says the military personnel he spoke with in Afghanistan didn't seem to have spent much time assessing how big an army Afghanistan could support. "It seemed like a new question to a lot of people," he says. "They hadn't spent time computing projected Afghan GDP and the likely percent of GDP they could spend on security and how many troops that would allow them to support." Biddle says that because Afghanistan can't support a unified force big enough to defend itself, provincial authorities and their militias will have to pick up the slack. "Going...