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...DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan) - A U.S. missile strike in Pakistan killed one of the FBI's most-wanted terrorists, a man suspected in a deadly 1986 plane hijacking with a $5 million bounty on his head, three Pakistani intelligence officials said Friday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Kills Wanted Terrorist in Pakistan | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

...death would be the latest victory for the CIA-led missile campaign against militant targets in Pakistan's insurgent-riddled tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, a campaign that has recently escalated. One Thursday is believed to have missed Pakistan's Taliban chief. (See pictures of the effects of suicide bombings in Islamabad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Kills Wanted Terrorist in Pakistan | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

...hijackers demanded that 1,500 prisoners in Cyprus and Israel be released and that they be flown out of Pakistan. At one point, the hijackers shot and threw hand grenades at passengers and crew in one part of the plane. Some 20 people, including two Americans, died during the hijacking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Kills Wanted Terrorist in Pakistan | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

...problem throughout Pakistan, as even the country's interior minister recently conceded, is that the police are ill-trained and poorly equipped to counter terrorism. There is a shortage of bulletproof vests and communication-intercept equipment. Although the U.S. has in recent years provided extensive training programs for Pakistani law-enforcement agencies, these have mostly enhanced their ability to protect senior government officials from assassination attempts and to investigate bomb sites, rather than to preemptively thwart attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan's Response to Terrorism: Still Inadequate | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

...Whichever institutional arrangements are adopted to mount a defense against terrorism, analysts believe the deeper problem will only be tackled through more far-reaching methods such as the overhaul of Pakistan's education system, the development of alternatives to the hard-line Islamist message that resonates in growing parts of the country, and vast development funds that will create jobs and a future for those potentially lured by the call of jihad. Right now, says Siddiqa, "there is no such policy, and nobody is keen to do anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan's Response to Terrorism: Still Inadequate | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

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