Word: generalling
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...positions toward those of his top counterterrorism adviser. And Brennan is ready to fight for those, even against some members of Obama's political team in internal Administration debates. But if Brennan has won the debate inside the White House, he faces a tougher sell to the general public. Can he convince Americans that putting terrorism suspects into FBI custody, giving them lawyers and closing down Guantánamo Bay is going to make the country safer? If Barack Obama hasn't been able to do that, it's hard to see how John Brennan will...
...Some Taliban experts say that if Mehsud is indeed dead, his organization won't announce it until a new leader for the Pakistani Taliban is chosen - and that could take a while. "Very likely, there is confusion in the ranks," Talat Masood, a retired general and political analyst, told TIME. "The Taliban will keep on denying Mehsud is dead until the battle for succession is over...
...caliphate is often a flag of convenience for other motives. Some joined the Taliban for revenge against Islamabad for past assaults against their tribes and for U.S. drone strikes. Others, especially along the Khyber Pass, are common bandits, while still others are sectarian, feuding with Shi'ite tribes. In general, the Pakistani Taliban are united in fighting against Islamabad, while the Afghan Taliban, with whom they are allied spiritually and often times logistically, are bent on killing American and NATO soldiers in Afghanistan...
...typical hot, balmy day when protesters supporting Sarath Fonseka, the retired general and defeated presidential candidate now under arrest and facing court-martial, gathered near the Supreme Court complex in the capital, Colombo, on Wednesday...
...culmination of two weeks of tension and charge-trading between the government and Fonseka camps. On Jan. 26, hundreds of armed troops surrounded Fonseka and his team inside a five-star hotel in Colombo on the eve of the election. The government has declined to disclose where the general is being held, citing security reasons, though his family and lawyers have been given access to him, according to the Media Minister. (Watch a video about the final days of Sri Lanka's civil...