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Why we are in Pakistan

Sep 13th, 2009 | By Thomas M. Schreiter | Category: Neues-news

article by Chuck Bennett⟹retired Chief of LPD
Friends,
I have now been in Pakistan for a year and a half.  When I’ve been home a number of people have asked me why I’m working in an unstable third-world country.  If people haven’t actually asked that question, their eyes have.
Yesterday was the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attacks [...]



news by Chuck Bennett, Pakistan

Apr 5th, 2009 | By Thomas M. Schreiter | Category: Leitartikel

Saturday, April 04, 2009
At approximately 8 AM on Saturday, April 4th, a powerful explosion rocked my house.  The walls shook and the windows rattled.  The blast was at a Frontier Corps camp here in Islamabad about 500 yards from my house.  A ten minute gun battle followed the blast.  Automatic weapons, rifle and pistol fire [...]