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...made similar comments before. Still, the attack comes less than a month after a deadly assault on the visiting Sri Lankan national cricket team in Lahore; analysts are concerned about increased coordination among al-Qaeda, Taliban and other extremist forces and the Pakistani government's apparent hesitancy to rein them...
...Juarez, presides over what may be the western hemisphere's most dangerous town, certainly the hardest hit by Mexico's drug-war terror. Since the start of last year, Juarez has seen almost 2,000 drug-related murders. Reyes this month requested thousands of federal army soldiers to rein in the violence, which has subsided for the moment - giving him a chance to rebuild Juarez's corrupt police force. He talked with TIME's Tim Padgett this week about his police reform, drug-cartel death threats against him and comparisons of Juarez to Baghdad. (See pictures of Mexico's narco...
...same time, Mexican officialdom has always used American myopia as an excuse to blow off its own epic failings. The most glaring, of course, is Mexico's police corruption and lack of rule of law, which has given the drug cartels free rein and too often turned Mexican law enforcement into narco-collaborators. Perhaps the only way to shame Mexican politicians into owning up to that national sin - and finally doing something about it - is for the U.S. to confront its own shortcomings. (See pictures of Mexico's narco-carnage...
...Married with three children. His wife, self-made millionaire Therese Rein, started a large employment agency and is the first Prime Minister's wife to remain in the workforce and keep her maiden name...
...Iraq. Traditionally, Presidents favor more troops - and precipitously lose public support. In this case, Obama's margin for error is minuscule, given the enormity of the economic crisis. He simply can't get bogged down in Afghanistan. And he simply can't allow al-Qaeda and the Taliban free rein. And every option in between seems either a gamble or a fantasy...