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Gall and Jehl (NYT), January 19 2006

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Gall, Carlotta and Douglas Jehl. "U.S. Raid Killed Qaeda Leaders, Pakistanis Say." New York Times (www.nytimes.com. January 19 2006): http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/19/international/asia/19pakistan.html.


Message Unit 1 - an example of patriotized history

Pakistani soil is in the jurisdiction of the United States. Therefore, when the US kills people there, the issue is whether the dead really were US targets, not whether the US is the one to make decisions over who lives and who dies there.