N-Stakes Rising As War On Terror Loses Ground

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Quick! Name the country we turn into a parking lot the next time al-Qaida's network pulls off a 9/11. If your knee jerks toward Pakistan instead of Iran, your instincts are sound, because conditions are falling into place for that scary scenario to unfold.

No, we won't be toppling a regime -- much less nation building -- any time soon in a country of 170 million Muslims (eight times the size of Iraq). But the United States could readily find itself unleashing the "gravest possible consequences" (remember that spooky Cold War phrase?) inside Pakistan's borders -- specifically the "federally administered tribal areas" that border Afghanistan.

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N-Stakes Rising As War On Terror Loses Ground

This swath of remote mountain ranges has never been effectively governed by distant Islamabad, but it's where the Taliban has -- according to The New York Times -- recently set up a "virtual mini- state." ...

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