The trouble with Pakistani-U.S. relations.
November 5, 2010 by Tara McKelvey
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Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, 38, a Pakistani neuroscientist, may be a criminal in New York – she was found guilty in September of the attempted murder of U.S. servicemen in Afghanistan and was sentenced to 86 years in prison. Yet she is a folk hero in Pakistan, as I was discovered during a recent visit to a newspaper office in Islamabad. The editor-in-chief sat me in his office and berated me for the imprisonment of Siddiqui, telling me that she had been victimized by Americans and that she was just a slight thing and could not be guilty of the crimes that had sent her to prison. “They said she picked up a large rifle – this big,” said the editor, [...]
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View from Islamabad on a terrorist plot in suburban Washington
October 28, 2010 by Tara McKelvey
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ISLAMABAD – I was in my guest house here on Thursday morning when I read in the New York Times that Farooque Ahmed, a Pakistani-American, has been charged with trying to help plot a terrorist attack on the Washington, D.C.-area Metro and it reminded me of what the stakes are in U.S.-Pakistan relations and in their cooperative military efforts. It is impossible to say at this point what will become of the charges against Ahmed — or of Ahmed himself — but it is clear that a handful of Pakistani-Americans are becoming more radical in their views. Faisal Shahzad, for instance, had received training in explosives in Waziristan before trying to blow up his car in Times Square in [...]
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Covering Guantanamo
October 19, 2010 by Tara McKelvey
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David Hick’ book shows the dreary, everyday life for prisoners at Guantanamo and sheds light on a corner of the world that is largely hidden from view.
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Al Qaeda by the German numbers
October 15, 2010 by Tara McKelvey
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The problem with the figures about terrorists is the way that these numbers are sometimes interpreted.
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Aid workers and journalists
October 11, 2010 by Tara McKelvey
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The New Yorker’s Philip Gourevitch argues that journalists are biased toward humanitarian-aid workers.
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The new Abu Ghraib
October 7, 2010 by Tara McKelvey
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The similarities between the Abu Ghraib scandal and the accounts of Staff Sgt. Gibbs’ unit in Afghanistan are disturbing.
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four quarters to participate in a 5th Quarter Specialization Program in National Security Reporting. Students will expand their knowledge of the issues through seminars, then launch major reporting projects with a unified overarching theme – such as military justice or failing states.
