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To Drone or Not To Drone
5/23/2009 12:00:00 AMIt's clear that predator drones are revolutionizing the way America fights battles: the flying robots, piloted from thousands of miles away, stand watch while soldiers sleep, kill terrorists from afar and patrol for 24 hours at a stretch. But some counterinsurgency experts say the drones are impeding the broader strategy by losing the war for hearts and minds in Pakistan.
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THE BIG IDEA
Defusing a Cosmic War
5/2/2009 12:00:00 AMIn "How To Win a Cosmic War," Reza Aslan explains why George W. Bush's war-on-terror rhetoric played right into Al Qaeda's hands—and how Barack Obama might be the best weapon yet against global jihadism.
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THE LAST WORD
Our Main Enemy Is Al Qaeda
4/18/2009 12:00:00 AMYemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, has long governed a tinderbox. His party survived armed clashes with separatist rebels in the country's south and Houthi tribesmen in the north. Al Qaeda is also a growing threat. Last month a suicide bomber detonated himself at a crowded archeological site in Yemen, killing four South Korean tourists, and earlier this month CentCom chief Gen. David Petraeus warned that Yemen was becoming a safe haven for Qaeda militants. Saleh spoke with NEWSWEEK's Kevin Peraino at his palace in Sanaa. Excerpts:
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INTERNATIONAL
Plotting The Pullout
3/11/2009 12:00:00 AMComing on the very day that U.S. and Iraqi officials were detailing withdrawal plans for American troops, Sunday's suicide-bomb attack on a police academy in east Baghdad underscores the challenges being faced. In a country of high unemployment, the promise of a $500 monthly salary is a powerful magnet, and news that the Iraqi government is hiring 50,000 more police officers had drawn a long line of applicants. But a suicide bomber drove his motorcycle into the group and detonated his explosives vest, killing some 30 people and injuring twice that many.
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Feinstein Under Fire
2/25/2009 12:00:00 AMIn a swipe at their chief Democratic counterpart in the Senate, Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee have asked the Obama administration to conduct an inquiry into recent comments by Sen. Dianne Feinstein that appeared to confirm the existence of a secret U.S. facility inside Pakistan used to stage missile strikes against Al Qaeda targets.
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INTERVIEW
Worst Job in the World
2/7/2009 12:00:00 AMPakistan's Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, leads a fractious Parliament that is facing at once a major economic crisis, a spreading border insurgency and still-tense relations with his country's powerful military. He spoke to NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Excerpts:
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