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Taliban Destroys Key Bridge in Pakistan

Local residents carry an elderly person and belongings on their way to safe place crossing a river after fleeing from a troubled area in Imam Dheri near Mingora, the main town of Pakistan's Swat Valley, Monday, Feb. 2, 2009. Pakistan's military has ...

From CANDACE RONDEAUX, The Washington Post,  3 Feb 2009
Related Topics: NATO,  Al-Qaeda,  United Nations

21 Afghan Police Die in Taliban Bombing  Suicide Attack Was the Second Major Strike in Two Days

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From CANDACE RONDEAUX, The Washington Post,  3 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Taliban

American Abducted in Pakistan

Gunmen kidnapped Solecki, the chief of the U.N. refugee office in Quetta, and fatally shot his driver early Monday in an incident that marked the latest in a series of high-profile kidnappings and targeted hits on foreigners in recent months in the ...

From CANDACE RONDEAUX, The Washington Post,  3 Feb 2009
Related Topics: United Nations,  Taliban,  Al-Qaeda,  Ban Ki-moon,  Asif Ali Zardari

UN official is kidnapped in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Gunmen in southern Pakistan kidnapped an American who is a United Nations official and fatally shot his driver yesterday, the latest in a recent series of high-profile kidnappings and targeted hits on foreigners, according to ...

From CANDACE RONDEAUX, Boston Globe,  3 Feb 2009
Related Topics: United Nations,  Taliban,  Al-Qaeda,  Ban Ki-moon,  Asif Ali Zardari

American U.N. official kidnapped in Pakistan

John Solecki is head of the U.N. refugee office in Baluch istan province. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan kidnapped an American who is a U.N. official and fatally shot his driver Monday, the latest in a recent series of ...

From CANDACE RONDEAUX, Denver Post,  2 Feb 2009
Related Topics: United Nations,  Al-Qaeda,  Taliban

Suicide Bomber Kills 21 Afghan Policemen

A soldier of Afghan National Army takes picture of the wreckage of a vehicle used by a suicide bomber in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009. The suicide bomber in a car attacked a convoy of foreign troops in the Afghan capital ...

From CANDACE RONDEAUX, The Washington Post,  2 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Taliban

Gunmen in Pakistan Kidnap American Official

Local residents prepare to carry their belongings after crossing a river as they flee from a troubled area in Imam Dheri near Mingora, the main town of Pakistan's Swat Valley, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009. Pakistan's military has vowed to reinvigorate the ...

From CANDACE RONDEAUX, The Washington Post,  2 Feb 2009
Related Topics: United Nations,  Al-Qaeda,  Ban Ki-moon

2 U.S. Airstrikes Offer a Concrete Sign of Obama's Pakistan Policy

By R. Jeffrey Smith, Candace Rondeaux and Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, January 24, 2009; Page A01 Two remote U.S. missile strikes that killed at least 20 people at suspected terrorist hideouts in northwestern Pakistan yesterday ...

From R. JEFFREY SMITH, CANDACE RONDEAUX AND JOBY WARRICK, Portland Indymedia,  26 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Al-Qaeda,  White House

In Afghanistan, a Rival to Taliban

That morning, Capt. Jay Bessey had warned his platoon not to waste time and to stay tight. There was word that a suicide attacker might try to infiltrate his small base in a remote district in the eastern Afghan province of Nangahar. There was also a ...

From CANDACE RONDEAUX, The Washington Post,  23 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Hamid Karzai

Suspected U.S. Missile Strikes Kill at Least 20 in Pakistan

A U.S. Predator drone fired three missiles at a compound about two miles from the town of Mirali in the tribal area of North Waziristan about 5:15 p.m., according to a Pakistani security official and local residents. The precision strike leveled a ...

From CANDACE RONDEAUX, The Washington Post,  23 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Robert Gibbs,  White House,  Hamid Karzai,  Central Intelligence Agency

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