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Anna G. Eshoo is a Democratic congresswoman from California’s 14th congressional district...
...women as “extremely agitated,” “uncooperative,” and “verbally abusive toward officers,” according to the article. The women, Kenyana McQuay and Waltia Funches, ages 27 and 28 respectively, were both summoned to Roxbury District Court on assault and battery charges...
Robert A. Brown, president of Boston University and Michael E. Capuano, representative in Congress for Massachusetts’ eighth district, were also in attendance...
Indeed, the Pakistanis say, while they have largely cleared militants from Swat, which is in the North-West Frontier Province, as well as the South Waziristan and Bajaur areas along the Afghan border, the army remains engaged in battles in the Khyber district not far from Swat and nearby Orakzai, where the army claims almost daily double-digit Taliban kill figures (numbers that cannot be independently verified...
...representatives of the military, provincial government and tribal elders. "There are so many reasons that we fell to them [the Taliban] and they took over, so many reasons," says Bakhd Zada, a tribal elder from Devlai, a town of some 30,000, 13 miles from Mingora in the Swat district. "There's poverty, lack of knowledge, and we were misguided," he says. "We need to educate the people and we need job creation. You know when you are empty minded and you have nothing to do, that is a place for demons to develop...