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I know to take death threats seriously.  My home was under special police watch during part of my 14 years as a U.S. Congressman.  Eventually, a man went to prison for threatening to kill and dismember me because I opposed the legalization of marijuana.

Author: By Ernest J. Istook | Title: Stop Playing Politics Over Threats | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

Pakistan has watched warily as both Iran and archrival India have expanded their influence with anti-Pakistani forces in Afghanistan - a country many in Islamabad still view as their backyard. The arrest earlier this month of Mullah Abdul Baradar, rumored Taliban deputy commander, by Pakistani authorities in Karachi has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Arrest of an Extremist Foe: Did Pakistan Help? | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

Yet his protest went unheeded for weeks by New Delhi and, 58 days after it began, Sriramulu died, a sacrifice that triggered widespread rioting and eventually forced the government into forming the Telugu-speaking state of Andhra Pradesh in 1953, as well as other new states organized on linguistic lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Rule India: Break It Into More Pieces? | 12/13/2009 | See Source »

Laghmani started his career in the dreaded secret police of the former pro-Soviet regime. Then he switched sides, grew a beard and joined the Islamic warriors of the mujahedin. When the Americans chased out the Taliban, the ever adaptable Laghmani volunteered his unique set of skills to the new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan Assassination: The Taliban's Big Get | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

In 2004, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia joined NATO as a guarantee against encroachment by Moscow, which had dominated them from 1945 until the end of the Cold War. Back at the close of the Cold War in the early 1990s, NATO had promised Moscow that once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: Still a Sore Point With Putin | 4/1/2008 | See Source »

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