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When I made a reporting trip to Pakistan's rugged Baluchistan province in 2004, I expected to encounter strong feelings against the central government in Islamabad. Baluchistan was in the grips of a low-level insurgency, with tribesmen demanding greater autonomy for the province. Just days before my trip, a roadside bomb in the Baluch fishing village of Gwadar had killed five Chinese engineers working on Pakistan's premier development project: a massive new port. So I was surprised to see children in Gwadar playing cricket in replicas of the uniforms of Pakistan's national team. In fact, the only...
...operation in Djibouti has produced bang for the buck: "Working closely with U.S. Embassy personnel in the region, CJTF-HOA assists partner governments in building indigenous capacity to deny terrorists access to their territory. This not only includes training local security and border forces, but also involves assisting with low-level civic projects throughout HOA such as digging wells, building schools and distributing books, and holding medical and veterinary clinics in remote villages." These efforts, Abizaid said, engender goodwill and help "discredit extremist propaganda and bolster local desires and capabilities to defeat terrorists before they can become entrenched...
...More than a dozen of Fletcher's aides were indicted last year on charges that they helped orchestrate a hiring scheme for low-level state jobs based on political support. Fletcher was criticized from all sides when he issued a blanket pardon covering every member of his administration, save himself, for actions related to the indictments. But outright challenges to his leadership did not materialize until this summer, following his own indictment in May in connection with the case...
...possibility of sanctions from the U.N. Security Council over its nuclear program and may well be grateful to Hizballah for diverting the attention of world powers through this major conflagration. Syria is close to being Washington's least favorite country: the U.S. has withdrawn its ambassador and permitted only low-level contacts since a U.N. report last year implicated top Syrian officials in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. According to TIME sources in the Middle East and Washington, Syria's envoys have been desperately reaching out to re-establish a dialogue with the Bush Administration, even...
...horse [an error occurred while processing this directive] racing - has been cast into turmoil by an alleged betting fraud and the arrest of Kieren Fallon, one of its most accomplished jockeys. And to what prosecutors and investigating committees maintain is systemic corruption can be added an outsize helping of low-level deceit that tends to be marked down as "gamesmanship." One British newspaper was so amused by the underhanded dealings on display in the World Cup that it produced a series of league tables under such headings as diving, feigning injury, intimidating the referee and tantrums. One of the most...