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Nicholas Schmidle is a freelance writer and author of To Live or To Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years Inside Pakistan. He was awarded the 2008 Kurt Schork Award for freelance journalism, based on his work in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is currently a fellow at the New America Foundation.