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07 Oct, 2008

Our secret war in Pakistan

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By Richard Engel, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent
 JALALABAD, Afghanistan – U.S. military officials don’t talk about our secret war in Pakistan. 
Don’t even ask, I was told, on U.S. military bases in Afghanistan at Bagram and Jalalabad.
Don’t ask about the remotely-controlled American drones armed with missiles that are now hunting across the Pakistani border, searching [...]

By Charlene Gubash, NBC News Producer CAIRO – After eight years of watching the Middle East peace process disintegrate into violence, five years of what most here regard as an illegal U.S. occupation of Iraq, the ensuing Sunni-Shiite conflict, and the subsequent rise of Iran as a nuclear threat in the mainly Sunni Gulf, most Egyptians agree [...]