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...cease cooperation - and instead offered a temporary, so-called queen for a day agreement, giving him much less protection for what he voluntarily disclosed. At one point they even dismissed Birkenfeld as a mere tipster, not a whistle-blower. "Those who seek to be treated as true whistle-blowers need to know they must come in early and give complete and truthful disclosures, with no dissembling or holding back or spinning," said John A. DiCicco, Justice's top tax lawyer, in an e-mail to TIME...
However, he said that “it’s great to have students connected to people in need...
...whom wont be deployed in the field in less than a year; they would thus do little to protect against the near-term dangers that General Stanley McChrystal has warned of. Perhaps most fundamental, the middle way avoids the quicksand on which the counterinsurgency strategy is built: the absolute need for nation-building. Counterinsurgency strategy requires clearing and holding territory, which cannot be done without transforming a corruption-riddled, anarchic and poverty-stricken state into a functioning market democracy. That goal is totally beyond American interests and capabilities and promises only endless war. Nor does the all-out approach help...
...Frontier Province, after a vehicle laden with explosives slammed into the side of a hotel in the city, killing 17 people. Just hours after Monday's attack, the U.N. said all of its offices in Islamabad would be closed indefinitely. That could severely hamper relief efforts just when refugees need it most. The WFP has been coordinating the distribution of food and other relief supplies to more than 2 million people who had fled the fighting between the Pakistani army and insurgents in the Swat Valley of the North-West Frontier Province this summer as well as organizing development projects...
...Kandahar, Afghanistan. After his arrest, Shafiq Shah gave an interview to TIME in a Kabul prison in which he described the indoctrination that young fighters receive concerning the role of foreign aid workers. "[Muslim aid recipients] shouldn't eat infidel food," Shah said. "God gave us everything we need. We have bodies and hands and eyes and community - why can't those people work and get their own food? They shouldn't take anything from infidels." (Read "Are Development Dollars in Pakistan Being Well Spent...