This online CNN story struck Vincenzo Kolchak as strange and
threw him into a reverie which produced the vignette below the image.
Bhutto exhumation okay, Pakistan official says
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — The Pakistani government has no problem with officials from Benazir Bhutto’s political party exhuming the slain opposition leader’s body if they see a need […]
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William McKinley
Front Porch Campaigning
Fin de Siecle
Canton, Ohio Style
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Benazir Bhutto
Front Yard Campaigning
2007
Islamabad Style
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Please find story here.
Images: (Bhutto) REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood (PAKISTAN); (McKinley) via iath.virginia.edu
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A lawyer throws a tear-gas shell back toward the police during a protest in Lahore, Pakistan. Lawyers demonstrated outside courthouses in several cities to protest the emergency rule that had been declared Saturday in by Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf. (Photo: Arif Ali/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
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Riot police officers scuffled with lawyers, at times using […]
From CIA Jails, Inmates Fade Into Obscurity
Dozens of ‘Ghost Prisoners’ Not Publicly Accounted For
By Craig Whitlock
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, October 27, 2007; Page A01
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — On Sept. 6, 2006, President Bush announced that the CIA’s overseas secret prisons had been temporarily emptied and 14 al-Qaeda leaders taken to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But since then, […]
Into Thin Air
He’s still out there. The hunt for bin Laden.
By Evan Thomas
Newsweek
Sept. 3, 2007 issue - The Americans were getting close. It was early in the winter of 2004-05, and Osama bin Laden and his entourage were holed up in a mountain hideaway along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Suddenly, a sentry, posted several kilometers away, […]
His agents hint that he is still in hunt for Ron Silver Bio-Pix!!
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By CARLOTTA GALL and SALMAN MASOOD
Published: August 30, 2007
New York Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 30 — The exiled former prime minister Benazir Bhutto said Wednesday that Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, had agreed to resign as army chief as part of a nearly completed […]
Foreign Policy
The Terrorism IndexSeptember/October 2007
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In the third Terrorism Index, more than 100 of America’s most respected foreign-policy experts see a world that is growing more dangerous, a national security strategy in disrepair, and a war in Iraq that is alarmingly off course.
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Pakistani cleric captured under burqa
By MUNIR AHMED, Associated Press Writer2 hours, 31 minutes ago
Security forces besieging a radical mosque in the Pakistani capital captured its top cleric Wednesday as he tried to sneak out of the complex in a woman’s burqa, and more than 1,000 of his followers surrendered.
But heavy gunfire raged into the night, […]
We know this guy is a dog, but is he also an egomaniac? Or, is he a living proof of the futility of torture?
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In a file photo Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan Saturday March 1, 2003, in this photo obtained by […]
The Huffington Post reported the British Independent story which says MI-5 and Scotland Yard believe W’s minions nudging in the August, liquid bomb plot allowed suspects to escape.
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Images: (Scotand Yard) philsp.com; (W) infowars.com; (Abramoff) publicaffairsnews,com;(Rove) & (lieberman) flapsblog.com via static.flickr.com;