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The New Epicenter of Terror

Tuesday’s deadly attacks at a Pakistani hotel are the Taliban and al Qaeda’s latest attempt to turn the country into a jihadist emirate,  Bruce Riedel of the Brookings Institution writes—and Obama must win this existential fight.

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The attack on the Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar, which left 11 dead and 65 wounded, is only the latest in the escalating war for the future of Pakistan.

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