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...Mehsud is the brazen assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Dec. 2007. Mehsud has denied involvement, but even if he's innocent of that crime there's no shortage of reasons TIME dubbed him "an icon of global jihad." On March 31, Mehsud claimed responsibility for an assault the previous day on a police academy in Lahore, Pakistan that left 12 dead. He also threatened a massive terrorist attack on Washington that would "amaze everyone in the world." (See pictures of the battle against the Taliban...
...assault on a group of radical students at Islamabad's Red Mosque by the Pakistani army shattered any pretenses of a peace agreement, and Mehsud's vows of revenge for the incident only brought him greater fame. In December of that year, he was tapped by a Taliban council to consolidate the group's loosely affiliated factions in Pakistan. The same month, on Dec. 27, former Prime Minister Benazir was assassinated...
...He’s the one you least expect”; when yet another states, “[I] waited at the hospital in an exam room for three hours waiting for a rape kit and never got one,” the impact that incidents of sexual assault have had on these individuals is undeniable.“Saturday Night: Untold Stories of Sexual Assault at Harvard,” an artistic and literary magazine published by the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR), presents raw and powerful first-hand narratives of sexual assault. Through sobering, emotional...
Representatives from the Advocate, the Dudley Co-op, the Crimson, and two final clubs, the Fox and the Spee, defended their student groups as “safe spaces” at a sex and student group real estate panel yesterday evening. The Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response specialist Gordon W. Braxton and Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd were also present and spoke at the beginning of the panel, which was co-sponsored by Harvard’s student-run sex magazine H Bomb and OSAPR. Moderator Colette S. Perold ’11 posed...
Precise details are still emerging. The fact that the attackers managed to sustain their assault for several hours is being seen as evidence of sophisticated training. Monday's siege comes less than a month after a dozen gunmen carrying backpacks and wielding Kalashnikovs attacked the Sri Lankan cricket team in the heart of Lahore. On that occasion, which was also widely compared to Mumbai, the gunmen managed to escape after killing half a dozen police officers. The gunmen were not captured, while the government was accused of a major security lapse and of floundering in its pursuit of the perpetrators...