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...protect his country's sovereignty, a U.S. Predator drone launched five missiles at a suspected militant compound near the border with Afghanistan. The compound belonged to Jalaluddin Haqqani, one of the most notorious Afghan Taliban commanders based in Pakistan and a Soviet-era ally of the CIA. The Predator strike missed Haqqani, but it did kill four midlevel al-Qaeda operatives, government and militant sources told the Associated Press. It also killed as many as eight children, one of Haqqani's wives and a sister...
...Coming on the heels of two other American incursions - a commando raid on a suspected militant hideout on Sept. 3 left 20 people dead, and a Sept. 4 missile strike killed four more - the Haqqani strike roiled Pakistani public opinion. At his inaugural press conference, Zardari was pitched indignant queries about whether he would end U.S. raids on Pakistani soil. Each time, he punted, pointing out instead that Pakistan has a problem with terrorism but that "we can look the problem in the eye, and we can solve it." Punting may have been his only option: continued U.S. operations...
...Predator attacks in Pakistan are hardly new. The first high-profile strike took place in January 2006, targeting al-Qaeda's deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in the South Waziristan village of Damadola. The missile missed al-Zawahiri but killed dozens of villagers, unleashing violent protests across the country...
...also talk about how a preemptive attack can be the most effective military tactic. Would you advocate a strike against a country like Iran...
...over time, we should have a better idea of just how much warming might intensify storms, and how that process works. But that's a secondary issue. Whether or not warming will create more super storms, we know that hurricanes will happen, and we know that they will strike human populations. The difference, as my colleague Amanda Ripley recently pointed out is whether or not we're prepared for them. As population numbers and property development grow in vulnerable areas like the Gulf Coast, natural disasters will get worse even without the effect of warming. Think of the damage that...