(Washington Times) Rowan Scarborough- The U.S., on the hunt for bin Laden, is augmenting counterterror operations in Pakistan with scores of former special-operations warriors who work for the CIA and other agencies under contract. The stated U.S. policy is that no American troops are inside Pakistan, but Washington is getting around the ban by signing up former Delta Force commandos, SEALs, and Green Berets and assigning them to special duties in Pakistan. On the ideological front, Gen. Musharraf's government has begun dismantling the network of madrassas that teach the young to hate, replacing them with public schools funded by the U.S.
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