IN BRIEF

Published: November 24, 2008

U.S. pact poses detainee dilemma

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CAMP CROPPER, Iraq — The U.S. military is rushing to build criminal cases against some 5,000 detainees it deems dangerous — including suspected members of al-Qaida in Iraq — because the proposed security pact with Iraq would end its right to hold prisoners without charge.

Obama calls Afghan leader

KABUL, Afghanistan — President-elect Barack Obama pledged in a telephone conversation with Afghan President Hamid Karzai to increase U.S. aid to Afghanistan and said fighting terrorism would be a priority, officials at Karzai’s office said Sunday.

Strike points to intelligence

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A U.S. missile strike that killed a British militant linked to a jetliner bomb plot on Saturday points to sharper American intelligence in Pakistan’s borderlands, but is unlikely to lessen anger over the raid and others like it, analysts say.


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