Word: terrorization
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...approval came as a bit of an anti-climax for both administrations, with Washington and New Delhi preoccupied with other more pressing issues - Washington with the economy, New Delhi with a recent string of domestic security failures that have led to nearly a dozen terror strikes across the country in the last four weeks. When both administrations go to the electorate - India is getting ready for general elections too, though not sooner than early next year - the long-awaited nuclear deal may not be the biggest trumpet they blow...
...Sunni fighters that patrol Dora, a predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Baghdad where al-Qaeda had banned barbershops and outlawed alcohol. He had 422 men, but about 50 fled, fearing arrest by the government. The district, which is hemmed in by high concrete T-walls, was a byword for terror before locals like the sheikh joined with U.S. forces to rout the extremists...
American Lighting: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood and the Crime of the Century By Howard Blum Crown...
...short, most foreign policy hands - including members of the current Administration - would have given Couric the exact opposite answer that Palin did. If U.S. officials once praised Pakistan's cooperation in the war on terror, they almost never do now. But Palin doesn't seem to have noticed...
...that Pakistan and the U.S. appear unable to agree on what role American forces will play in targeting militants on Pakistani soil. Thursday's exchange - Pakistani officials said the helicopters had returned fire, which U.S. officials denied - between U.S. forces and Washington's key ally in its war on terror highlights the tinderbox that western Pakistan has become since 9/11. U.S. forces find themselves restrained by political and diplomatic concerns from pursuing enemy targets inside Pakistan, while the loyalties of Pakistan's security forces are clearly divided. Those forces - especially the Frontier Corps that guards the border - can be crudely...