What's new in Af-Pak? History you haven't read

GlobalPost by Anthony Paul | Aug. 7, 2009 (Special Report)

The more things change on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, the more they seem to stay the same ? the same as in the 1870s. The latest news from Waziristan ? the reputed death by U.S. drone strike of Baitullah Mehsud, West Asia?s Public Enemy No. 2 ? doesn?t generate as much optimism as, perhaps, it should. Those Anglo-Saxons active earlier in the region, British colonial forces, killed many Mehsuds over the years, but without, it seems, changing all that ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Joey Baker - Aug 7, 2009 - 8:33 AM PDT
Reviewed by: Joey Baker (review), Randy Morrow (review)
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Edited by: Joey Baker - Aug 7, 2009 - 9:24 AM PDT
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 by Joey Baker - Aug. 7, 2009

The hed is misleading, this isn't an update story. It looks way back to British rule of the area to take some lessons. Interesting anecdotes.

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