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Boston •NBC affiliate in has no interest in running Jay Leno in prime time...
...Reilly, Bill •dire warning by that, unless the prime minister of Spain condemns the possible investigation by a Spanish court of several Bush administration officials for war crimes, "I am not goin' to that country...
...bring one to its knees. The shadowy Pakistani Taliban commander, whose vertiginous rise to infamy landed him on 2008's TIME 100 List, has transformed the badlands of South Waziristan into al-Qaeda's most important redoubt. Among the atrocities attributed to Mehsud is the brazen assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Dec. 2007. Mehsud has denied involvement, but even if he's innocent of that crime there's no shortage of reasons TIME dubbed him "an icon of global jihad." On March 31, Mehsud claimed responsibility for an assault the previous day on a police academy...
...pretenses of a peace agreement, and Mehsud's vows of revenge for the incident only brought him greater fame. In December of that year, he was tapped by a Taliban council to consolidate the group's loosely affiliated factions in Pakistan. The same month, on Dec. 27, former Prime Minister Benazir was assassinated...
...charter, which deems an attack on any one member state an attack on all and obliges all to respond collectively. That was the day after the 9/11 attacks in the U.S., and it laid the groundwork for NATO's current role in Afghanistan. That's the prime focus of the summit media packages, which include hours of footage of NATO forces in Afghan villages, highlighting projects such as health clinics and schools. "I didn't even know the [Afghan] provinces when I came to NATO five years ago," joked outgoing Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at a NATO Youth...