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...Joint Chiefs, had been hearing warnings from the combat zones ever since the April 23 announcement of the agreement. In weekly video conferences and private letters, top commanders in the region expressed grave concerns over the possible impact of the photographs. Both Afghan president Hamid Karzai and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki raised similar doubts over the decision, a senior Pentagon official says...
...government, at last, seems to be fighting back. On May 7, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani announced a military operation in Swat. "The armed forces have been called in," he said, "to eliminate the militants and terrorists. We will not bow before extremists." Only weeks before, the government had finalized a peace deal with the militants in which their principal demand - the establishment of Islamic law in the area - was granted in exchange for giving up arms. At first officials defended the deal, even as the militants moved on a neighboring district and their leader announced that democracy was contrary...
...year, looked plodding and procedural by comparison. That's perhaps not surprising. When he did attempt a quick response last month to the first signs of a brewing expenses scandal, his proposals - broadcast in a YouTube message which rapidly became known for the Prime Minister's awkwardness rather than his ideas' merit - soon unraveled...
...onscreen clumsiness is far from Brown's only problem. The expense claims rumpus couldn't have come at a worse time for the Prime Minister. The country's economy - Brown's ticket into Downing Street two years ago after a largely successful decade as finance minister - has slid into reverse. Success confronting problems on the global stage, most recently at April's productive G-20 summit in London, has sharpened criticism that he's lacking an agenda at home. (When an e-mail discussing smears against senior Conservatives, written by one of Brown's close aides, surfaced days after...
...With few giving him any chance in general elections expected in 12 months, Brown looks fresh out of ideas - and luck. A tabloid newspaper this week published make-up instructions written for the Prime Minister, found among official papers left in the back of a taxi. The brief advised the P.M. on using foundation, concealer, and fake tan. To his credit, though, they didn't end up on expenses...