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...continuing flurry of denials by spokesmen of the Pakistani Taliban - a slightly different breed from the Afghan jihadis - that their commander had died. On Tuesday, following the television broadcasts, a Taliban commander told the Pakistani daily The News that Mehsud had become too high profile, and was instructed to hide from the U.S. Predator drones that were raking the skies over the tribal lands in search of al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders, thereby escaping another strike. Meanwhile, the Pakistani army admitted to journalists that it had "no solid information" about Mehsud's death, other than persistent stories from tribal leaders...
...built by the U.S. a generation ago to expand agriculture to 250,000 acres in the Helmand River valley. It also gave the region the nickname "Little America." The canals and ditches created a network of bridges unable to support armored vehicles and gives the Taliban good places to hide IEDs - the top killer of U.S. troops in Afghanistan - and snipers. They also turned the region into lush farmland that has proven ideal for growing opium-producing poppies...
...Capitol Hill, along with his Treasury predecessor Henry Paulson. At issue: the use of taxpayer money to cover AIG's debts to Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and other Wall Street firms. Both men defended the "backdoor bailout" and denied any involvement in the alleged attempt to hide the details of payments...
...This was well known, and not something he attempted to hide, even from senior leaders. Many of the men by this point hated Iraqis and would offhandedly opine that the whole country needed to be leveled, or the only good Iraqi was a dead Iraqi. But only Green talked about killing Iraqis all the time, incessantly, obsessively...
This is the kind of democracy and sovereignty that the Sri Lankan authorities have been using as effective political tools to carry out mass carnage on the Tamil population and to hide the evidences of unimaginable atrocities...