“It was a double explosion. The first was caused by a car bomb. We have no idea what the second was, whether a suicide bomber or a roadside bomb,” Taji municipality chief Raad al-Tamimi told Reuters.
The "wish list" of potential targets includes Defense Department officials, officials at defense contractors, members of Congress and private individuals in the US and overseas.
The two deadly blasts in Peshawar that killed at least 34 people and the Taliban denial of involvement came shortly after CIA Director Leon Panetta confronted Pakistani intelligence officials with what the US believes is evidence of collusion between Pakistani security officials and militants staging attacks in Afghanistan.
As part of its preparations to scale back its military presence in Afghanistan this summer, the Obama administration is making peace talks a new priority.
U.S. intelligence officials had also planned to launch a cyberattack against the terror network after the online magazine launched last June, but the CIA blocked the operation, arguing that it would expose sources and methods, according to the Telegraph.
hn Kerry — the chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee — announced he would travel to Pakistan next week to try and put relations with that country "back on track" after bin Laden's death
U.S. investigators, already combing through material recovered from bin Laden's high-walled compound, want to question his three wives in order to trace his movements and further infiltrate the terrorist network.
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