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'Zero Dark Thirty' writer brings firsthand accounts to big screen
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.Watching the first scene of "Zero Dark Thirty" is a jarring experience. Sort of like having a bag pulled off your head to find yourself in a windowless room, surrounded by very serious people. "It's a controversial subject, to put it lightly. But nobody...Tags: Pakistan, Entertainment Events, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Central Intelligence Agency, The Hurt Locker (movie)
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'Zero Dark Thirty' hunts for Bin Laden -- and more
In 2008, the screenwriter Mark Boal sought an appointment with a retired special-forces operator. Boal was researching a movie about the fruitless search for Osama bin Laden in the caves of Tora Bora six years before, and he wanted insight into how U.S....
Tags: Oliver Stone, Saving Private Ryan (movie), Apocalypse Now (movie), Lincoln (movie, 2012), U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security
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U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan said to kill 2 top Al Qaeda leaders
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Recent U.S. drone missile strikes in northwest Pakistan have killed two Al Qaeda commanders, according to Pakistani intelligence sources, including a militant leader who had replaced Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, Abu...Tags: Pakistan, Armed Conflicts, Central Intelligence Agency, Haqqani Network, Al-Qaeda
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CIA director wades into controversy over 'Zero Dark Thirty'
In unusual move, the acting director of the CIA, Michael Morell, has stepped into the controversy over the accuracy of the new film "Zero Dark Thirty." A bipartisan trio of senators -- John McCain, Dianne Feinstein and Carl Levin -- have complained in...Tags: Pakistan, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Central Intelligence Agency, Entertainment, John McCain
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Pentagon warns Navy SEAL author on Bin Laden book
World NowThe Pentagon formally warned a former Navy SEAL who has written a first-person account of the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden that he has violated his signed agreement not to divulge classified information and threatened him with legal action...... -
Pakistan evicts Save the Children foreign workers
World NowPakistani authorities have ordered foreign workers with the Save the Children aid group to leave the country, after alleging ties between the group and a Pakistani doctor enlisted by the CIA to help track down Osama bin Laden.... -
Ex-Navy SEAL pushes back on Pentagon warning over Bin Laden book
World NowThe former Navy SEAL who wrote a first-person account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden launched another attack Friday as his lawyer disputed the Defense Department’s claim that he was required to obtain Pentagon approval before publishing the... -
Pakistanis expect ties with U.S. to remain tense after Obama win
World NowAny change in Pakistan’s caustic relationship with the U.S. in the next four years is likely to be viewed through the prism of Afghanistan and Pakistan’s tribal region -- two war-ravaged places where both Washington and Islamabad desperately... -
Brave teen, cowardly Taliban
Did the Taliban overplay their hand when their gunmen shot a 14-year-old Pakistani girl simply because she wanted to go to school? We can only hope. Just when you think the militant Islamic Taliban movement can't sink any lower, you hear another story as...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Injuries and Wounds, Al-Qaeda, Pakistan, Politics
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No Easy Day -- Navy Seal's book on bin Laden raid out today
After weeks of hype and recrimination, the public gets a look today at a Navy Seal's account of the mission that killed Osama bin Laden -- a book that already is selling better than "Fifty Shades of Grey." The author of "No Easy Day," is identified on...
Tags: The New York Times, Outback Steakhouse Incorporated, Authors, Osama bin Laden, The Pentagon
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'No Easy Day' is a compelling account of Bin Laden's killing: Book Review
-------------------- No Easy Day The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer Dutton: 315 pp., $26.95 -------------------- Former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette did not put the first slug into Osama bin...
Tags: Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Human Interest, Central Intelligence Agency, White House, Osama bin Laden
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NATO says Al Qaeda's No. 2 in Afghanistan killed in air strike
Los Angeles TimesU.S.-led coalition troops battling Afghan Taliban insurgents have killed Al Qaeda’s second-in-command in Afghanistanin an air strike in the country’s eastern province of Kunar, the coalition said Tuesday. Sakhr al-Taifi, a Saudi national,...Tags: Pakistan, Religion and Belief, Armed Conflicts, Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda
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