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 of September 11, 2001.  Eight years can crowd out one millennial event with almost three thousand daily events… Some people say that we should forget, that we [...]

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 was very close as I stood on my upper deck.  At least 8 Frontier Corps and Ranger personnel and several civilian were killed.  Scores were seriously injured.  The Taliban [...]