Word: droning
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...announcement highlighted the degree to which the Taliban has been decimated by infighting and drone attacks - as well as the degree to which keeping tabs on a group shrouded in secrecy remains a formidable challenge. Pakistani officials had recently issued conflicting reports as to whether Hakimullah was even alive; intelligence sources suggested he had been killed in a shootout during a Taliban meeting convened to decide on Baitullah's successor. Some still suspect that the man calling himself Hakimullah is, in fact, an imposter claiming to be the terror chief in a bid to convince the world that the group...
...will take revenge and soon." -Vowing to retaliate for the U.S. drone attack that killed Baitullah Mehsud...
...officials, Pakistan has abandoned plans to mount a military offensive against the terrorist group responsible for a two-year campaign of suicide bombings across the country. Although the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has been in disarray since an Aug. 5 missile strike from a CIA-operated drone killed its leader, Baitullah Mehsud, the Pakistani military has concluded that a ground attack on its strongholds in South Waziristan would be too difficult...
...Islamabad Dead ...? U.S. and Pakistani officials strongly believe that Baitullah Mehsud, the secretive leader of Pakistan's Taliban, was killed in a U.S. drone attack on Aug. 5 in South Waziristan, despite assurances from a Taliban spokesman that the warlord was "safe." Pakistani officials are awaiting results of DNA analysis comparing the remains with those of Mehsud's brother, who was killed last October. Analysts suspect the Taliban could be denying the death until a replacement for Mehsud is chosen. Meanwhile, two senior Taliban leaders, potential Mehsud successors, were reportedly killed in subsequent days--possibly in a feud for control...
...perhaps what most distinguishes these two heroines from each other is their expectations about life, love and occupation. At 29, Queens, N.Y., resident and office drone Julie is consumed with jealousy of her friends. It's not their careers she wants - they mostly wheel and deal in the business world; it's their sense of importance about themselves and the world's acknowledgment of such. Julie is depressingly desperate for the payoffs of the contemporary age. At Amherst College she edited the literary magazine. She wrote half a novel. She is owed. You can see her thinking that her mother...