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Pakistan May Move Troops From Afghan to Indian Border

By Saed Shah, McClatchy Newspapers

Pakistani troops on the Afghan border.
Pakistan has warned that it will move troops from the Afghan border to its border with India. (Photo: AFP)


    Islamabad - Pakistan has warned that it will divert troops fighting the Taliban and al Qaida on its western border with Afghanistan to its eastern frontier with India, as tensions over the terror attacks in Mumbai push India and Pakistan towards military confrontation.

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Iraqi Detainee handcuffed.

I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq

by: Matthew Alexander, The Washington Post

Matthew Alexander led an interrogations team assigned to a Special Operations task force in Iraq in 2006. He is the author of "How to Break a Terrorist: The US Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq." He is writing under a pseudonym for security reasons.

    I should have felt triumphant when I returned from Iraq in August 2006. Instead, I was worried and exhausted. »

Downtown Detroit.

Economic Rescue Could Cost $8.5 Trillion

by: Jim Puzzanghera, The Los Angeles Times

Heavy spending to battle the financial crisis is unlikely to abate soon. Analysts say next year's deficit could top $1 trillion.

    Washington - With its decision last week to pump an additional $1 trillion into the financial crisis, the government eliminated any doubt that the nation is on a wartime footing in the battle to shore up the economy. The strategy now - and in the coming Obama administration - is essentially the win-at-any-cost approach previously adopted only to wage a major war.

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