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WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2009 – The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad strongly condemned today's terrorist attacks in Pakistan, vowing continued U.S. support to help Pakistan combat violence. The embassy issued the condemnation of the attacks as President Barack Obama signed a law that provides $7.5 billion in nonmilitary aid to Pakistan over the next five years. The funds are part of a comprehensive plan that recognizes the importance of confronting the root causes of extremism as well as extremists themselves. The new law will provide $1.5 billion each year from 2010 to 2014 for schools, hospitals, roads, agricultural aid, roadwork and...

WASHINGTON, July 20, 2005 – Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld today condemned the July 19 assassination of two Sunni Arab members of the commission drafting Iraq's new constitution as a "terrible act of violence" that demonstrates the insurgents' brutality and their low regard for the Iraqi people. Mijbil Sheikh Esa and Dhamin Hussein Ubaidi were ambushed while on their way to work at a U.S. military base in Khalis, about 40 miles northeast of Baghdad. "The coalition countries and much of the civilized world mourns the assassination of Iraqi officials involved in drafting the Iraqi constitution," Rumsfeld told Pentagon reporters....