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U.S. Plans Pakistan Awakening

A classified military strategy paper under review by U.S. Central Command headquarters in Tampa, FL, proposes an expanded U.S. military role in tribal areas of Pakistan. The document, drafted by members of the U.S. Special Forces Command and submitted for approval by counterintelligence officials, seeks to build a strategy of fighting al-Qaeda in Pakistan's lawless Waziristan Province that is modeled on the success in Iraq's Anbar Province. Known as the Anbar Awakening, tribal leaders in that formerly troubled part of the country suddenly turned on al-Qaeda fighters and sided with coalition ...

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