Archive for September 9th, 2007
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Pakistan Airports: “Threat of Imminent Attack”
The airports in Pakistan have been placed on critical alert with airport officials calling a terror attack "imminent." The government has taken the unusual move of banning five or more people from gathering near the International Airport in Rawalpindi. The Rawalpindi airport, also known as the Islamabad airport, is the military headquarters of Pakistan's armed […]
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Anniversary of an Assassination
Today marks the six-year anniversary of the assassination Ahmad Shah Massoud, killed by two Al Qaeda operatives posing as journalists just two days before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Massoud was a commander during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. After the Soviets left, Massoud was the long-standing leader of the opposition party to […]