Obama security team meets on Pakistan


WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama gathered his war council Thursday before hosting Afghan President Hamid Karzai next week, and as investigators probed the New York bomb plot for links to Pakistani extremist groups.
Obama gathered top administration national security officials in the White House Situation Room, a week before…

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