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Is Pakistan Ripe for an Islamic Revolution?
Recent events in Pakistan have increased alarm that a country with nuclear weapons is vulnerable to a Taliban-style Islamist revolution. We talk with Pakistanis and American experts. Also, Bush Administration officials may be tried for torture after all, and the former vice president who won't keep quiet.
By Warren Olney • • 1h 0m ListenRecent events in Pakistan have increased alarm that a country with nuclear weapons is vulnerable to a Taliban-style Islamist revolution. We talk with Pakistanis and American experts. Also, Bush Administration officials may be tried for torture after all, breaking a post-White House tradition of silence, Dick Cheney won't keep his voice down.
Banner image: Activists of civil society torch an effigy of a Taliban during a protest in Karachi on April 6, 2009, against the public flogging of a veiled woman. Photo: Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images
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3 storiesWill Bush Officials Be Investigated for Torture after All?
President Obama said today that the US “lost our moral bearings” with brutal interrogations of terror suspects. He hinted that his administration might take legal action. The President also called on Congress to deal with the issue in a ”bi-partisan fashion.” Greg Miller is national security correspondent for the Los Angeles Times .
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In Pakistan's Swat Valley on Sunday, militant Islamist leader Sufi Mohammed bluntly defied the country's secular government and its system of laws. As to its democratic institutions, he said, "supporting an infidel system is a great sin," and he laid out a plan to bring "a complete Islamic system" to Pakistan.
Read the story36 minCheney Takes to the Airwaves (Again) to Criticize Obama
George Bush is maintaining the tradition of silence for presidents and vice-presidents recently out of office. Not so Dick Cheney . The former Vice President is waging what one reporter called a “one-man assault on President Obama,” with condemnations of policies and personal behavior.
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