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25 April 2009

Looks like Osama might get...

...his nuclear-armed Caliphate after all...
-- ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- As the Taliban tightened their hold over newly won territory, Pakistani politicians and American officials on Thursday sharply questioned the government’s willingness to deal with the insurgents and the Pakistani military’s decision to remain on the sidelines.

“The government is too worried about its own political survival to take on the militants,” the Defense Department official said.
Here's a question... where do you figure the billion dollars in annual U.S. military aid got to?

Meanwhile... in other "brave holy warrior" news...
Yesterday 12 children were killed in Dir when a bomb hidden in a football exploded. Villagers said that the football had been left lying near the compound wall of a girls' school.

Among the dead were seven boys and five girls aged between 5 and 13.
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