Friday, November 13, 2009

Taliban bomb ISI office ...

NYTimes, here

"... There was no doubt about the target or the motive of the bombing on Friday: Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, is a prominent symbol of military power, and militants have struck at it in different cities in Pakistan..... That shift eventually prompted broad military action but represented a break from the past, when the military and Pakistani society were deeply ambivalent about fighting militants...."

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