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Land mine blast kills 2 polio workers in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A land mine blast killed two polio vaccination workers in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, the latest in a recent wave of violence involving healthcare teams trying to eradicate the disease in the South Asian nation. The blast...Tags: Polio, Weaponry, Pakistan, Central Intelligence Agency, Emergency Incidents
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Richard M. Walden, Operation USA's charity buccaneer
Almost on impulse, almost 35 years ago, Richard M. Walden and a friend rounded up six tons of relief supplies and a jet to ferry them to Vietnamese boat people in Malaysia. Thus was Operation California — now Operation USA — born. A Times...
Tags: Pakistan, Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Department of State, Natural Disasters, Social Issues
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Gunmen kill 5 anti-polio workers in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Five female anti-polio workers in Pakistan were slain Tuesday by gunmen on motorcycles, police said, on the second day of a three-day national immunization campaign. Four of the women were killed in Karachi, the nation's largest...
Tags: Polio, Health and Safety at Work, Pakistan, Central Intelligence Agency, Karachi (Pakistan)
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'Zero Dark Thirty' writer brings firsthand accounts to big screen
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.Watching the first scene of "Zero Dark Thirty" is a jarring experience. Sort of like having a bag pulled off your head to find yourself in a windowless room, surrounded by very serious people. "It's a controversial subject, to put it lightly. But nobody...Tags: Entertainment, Academy Awards, Entertainment Events, Pakistan, Central Intelligence Agency
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Film Review: Zero Dark Thirty
Zero Dark Thirty Directed by Kathryn Bigelow "You can help yourself by being truthful." "Partial information will be treated as a lie." The CIA interrogators in the stunning new film Zero Dark Thirty keep coming back to these refrains as they do...
Tags: Entertainment, Police Investigations, Pakistan, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Central Intelligence Agency
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'Zero Dark Thirty' hunts for Bin Laden -- and more
In 2008, the screenwriter Mark Boal sought an appointment with a retired special-forces operator. Boal was researching a movie about the fruitless search for Osama bin Laden in the caves of Tora Bora six years before, and he wanted insight into how U.S....Tags: Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, Government, Pakistan, Central Intelligence Agency
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U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan said to kill 2 top Al Qaeda leaders
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Recent U.S. drone missile strikes in northwest Pakistan have killed two Al Qaeda commanders, according to Pakistani intelligence sources, including a militant leader who had replaced Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, Abu...Tags: NATO, Haqqani Network, Islamabad (Pakistan), Weaponry, Pakistan
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CIA director wades into controversy over 'Zero Dark Thirty'
In unusual move, the acting director of the CIA, Michael Morell, has stepped into the controversy over the accuracy of the new film "Zero Dark Thirty." A bipartisan trio of senators -- John McCain, Dianne Feinstein and Carl Levin -- have complained in...Tags: Entertainment, Police Investigations, John McCain, Pakistan, Central Intelligence Agency
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Pentagon warns Navy SEAL author on Bin Laden book
World NowThe Pentagon formally warned a former Navy SEAL who has written a first-person account of the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden that he has violated his signed agreement not to divulge classified information and threatened him with legal action...... -
Pakistan evicts Save the Children foreign workers
World NowPakistani authorities have ordered foreign workers with the Save the Children aid group to leave the country, after alleging ties between the group and a Pakistani doctor enlisted by the CIA to help track down Osama bin Laden.... -
Ex-Navy SEAL pushes back on Pentagon warning over Bin Laden book
World NowThe former Navy SEAL who wrote a first-person account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden launched another attack Friday as his lawyer disputed the Defense Department’s claim that he was required to obtain Pentagon approval before publishing the... -
Pakistanis expect ties with U.S. to remain tense after Obama win
World NowAny change in Pakistan’s caustic relationship with the U.S. in the next four years is likely to be viewed through the prism of Afghanistan and Pakistan’s tribal region -- two war-ravaged places where both Washington and Islamabad desperately...
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