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...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...
...Soon we will launch an attack in Washington that will amaze everyone in the world." -Explaining that recent attacks were intended to avenge American missile strikes on Pakistani border areas. (Associated Press, March...
...high intellect of Tom Cruise, and, somehow, Matt Lauer goes to work with Al Roker EVERY DAY of the year. These battle scars may seem trite, but, in the annals of daytime television, they are nothing short of legendary. Just last week, the man survived a wild deer attack. No word on whether the deer was so fortunate...
...obviously sees little merit in that distinction, and neither do some members of the younger generation of Pakistani Taliban leaders, such as Baitullah Mehsud, a target of U.S. drone strikes who claimed responsibility for Monday's deadly attack on a Lahore police academy, saying it was an act of revenge for Pakistan's complicity in the U.S. campaign. But even the uptick of Taliban violence inside Pakistan won't necessarily spur the country's military establishment to act against Taliban forces that are using Pakistani territory as a base from which to fight NATO in Afghanistan...
...only once in NATO's history has it invoked Article 5 of its charter, which deems an attack on any one member state an attack on all and obliges all to respond collectively. That was the day after the 9/11 attacks in the U.S., and it laid the groundwork for NATO's current role in Afghanistan. That's the prime focus of the summit media packages, which include hours of footage of NATO forces in Afghan villages, highlighting projects such as health clinics and schools. "I didn't even know the [Afghan] provinces when I came to NATO five years...