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Pakistan backs army chief's US rebuke - The Independent view story

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Pakistan's prime minister today backed a harsh rebuke of the US by the Muslim nation's military chief, a sign of strains in relations seven years after the September 11 attacks forged the two countries' anti-terror alliance.

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Terrorizing Ourselves | The Omnipotent Poobah Speaks! view story

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Those horrific explosions and images of people leaping to their deaths were the first shots in the War on Terror. They were the first indications that things truly never would be the same again. Our democracy, once the envy of the world, has been voluntar

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Footage of civilian 'massacre' forces inquiry into US attack - The Independent view story

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America's most senior soldier in Afghanistan has called for the Pentagon to investigate claims that more than 90 civilians were killed in an American airstrike, after harrowing video footage emerged showing the broken bodies of at least 11 children among

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Hoover, the FBI, and Aafia Siddiqui view story

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Tariq Ali: Musharraf was rambling and impervious to tormented cries from his people - The Independent view story

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Afghanistan: 76 civilians die in airstrike, ministry claims | The Guardian view story

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US-led coalition forces killed 76 Afghan civilians in western Afghanistan yesterday, most of them children, the country's Interior Ministry said.

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Report: U.S. using contractors in Iraq at unprecedented rate view story

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The United States spent $85 billion on contracts in Iraq and other countries in the first four years of the war and is relying on contract employees at a greater rate than in any other war, according to a government report released Tuesday.

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Alleged Mata Hari of Al Qaeda Could Provide 'Treasure Trove' of Intelligence view story

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When she was arrested in Afghanistan last month, Aafia Siddique allegedly had in her possession maps of New York, a list of potential targets that included the Statue of Liberty, Times Square, the subway system and the animal disease center on Plum Island

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I Was a Victim of the Absurd War on Terror view story

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Clearly, the security program is not about protecting the flying public, or the nation's tall buildings. That could be done much more cheaply by putting air marshals on all flights, the way they do at El Al, the Israeli airline that has never had a succes

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UK refuses to compensate families of Afghan casualties view story

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Defence officials are refusing to compensate the families of hundreds of Afghans killed, wounded or left homeless in fighting involving British troops.

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