Benghazi Attack Raises New Questions About Al-Qaida
For the past decade, al-Qaida has been a top-down organization.Letters seized at Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan showed that he was a hands-on manager, approving everything from operations to...
View ArticleU.S. Drones Navigate Murky Legal Path In Pakistan
The U.S. has been carrying out drone strikes in Pakistan for some eight years, but it's done so under a policy that has emerged piecemeal over that time."It started in 2004, when drones were really an...
View ArticlePredicting The Future: Fantasy Or A Good Algorithm?
After failing to predict the Arab Spring, intelligence officials are now exploring whether Big Data, the combing of billions of pieces of disparate electronic information, can help them identify hot...
View ArticleCourt Overturns Conviction Of Bin Laden Driver
A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned the conviction of Osama bin Laden's former driver and bodyguard, Salim Ahmed Hamdan. If the name sounds familiar, it should.
View ArticleMan Arrested In Plot To Blow Up NY Federal Reserve
A man has been arrested in an alleged terror plot to blow up the Federal Reserve building in New York City. Federal authorities and the New York Police Department collaborated to foil the plot...
View ArticleMinnesota Case Re-Opens Wounds Among Somalis
For nearly three weeks, the benches at the back of a federal courtroom in Minneapolis were filled with local Somalis.
View ArticleAs Jihadists Spread, Connecting The Dots Proves Hard
More than a year after popular protests rocked the Arab world, U.S. intelligence officials are struggling to understand the myriad of Islamist groups that have filled the vacuum.Those groups run the...
View ArticleRecovery To Take 'Quite A Long Time' In Storm-Ravaged Breezy Point
Anyone who traveled to Breezy Point, Queens, in New York City in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, even as recently as a few of days ago, would have needed an SUV — its main thoroughfare was under 3...
View ArticleGunmen In Pakistan Target Polio Vaccinators
Pakistani gunmen staged new attacks Wednesday on health workers carrying out a nationwide polio vaccination program. Six workers were killed Tuesday as they went house to house to administer the...
View ArticleIn Pakistan, Tax Evaders Are Everywhere — Government Included
Tax evasion is a chronic problem in Pakistan — only about 2 percent of the population is registered in the tax system, and the government collects just 9 percent of the country's wealth in taxes, one...
View ArticleStreet Signs Intended To Give Pakistani City New Direction
Landlords built Lahore in a haphazard way over centuries. They didn't concern themselves with city grids or sensible mapping. As a result, Lahore is renowned in Pakistan for being almost impossible to...
View ArticleMultiple Feuds Bring A Record Year Of Violence To Karachi
The sad truth about Karachi in 2012 was that whatever your religion, business affiliation, or political party, someone was willing to kill you for it.The murder rate in Pakistan's largest city and...
View ArticlePakistan Embraces Man Behind 'One Pound Fish' Viral Video
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View ArticlePakistan's 'Patriot Act' Could Target Politicians
Earlier this month, Pakistan's powerful Lower House of Parliament passed what analysts have dubbed Pakistan's Patriot Act. Its name here is "Investigation for Fair Trial Bill."It has been presented to...
View ArticleThe Tony Soprano of Karachi: Gangster Or Politician?
Gangsters have been part of life in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, for decades. And nowhere is their rule more notorious than in the slums of Lyari, a dusty warren of low-slung tenement houses in...
View ArticlePakistani Military Hopes Rehab Will Lead Men To Paralympics
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish.ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: And I'm Robert Siegel. Over the past decade, more than 3,000 Pakistani soldiers have...
View ArticlePakistani Cafe Is Oasis In Desert Of Civil Discourse
Pakistan's Second Floor cafe is listed in a local Karachi social blog as one of the coolest cafes in town. Since it opened its doors five years ago, it has become a haven in a city more known for its...
View ArticleAfter Fighting To Go To School, A Pakistani Woman Builds Her Own
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View ArticleHow Mali's Conflict Affects Americans
France has intervened in the conflict in the West African nation of Mali, but why does that conflict affect the United States? Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has offered the most basic take on...
View ArticleProcedure Questions Expected To Bog Down Hearings For Alleged Sept. 11 Planners
Pretrial hearings resume Monday in the death penalty trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men accused of planning the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The men have been in jail, awaiting trial, for...
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