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Face the Music: We Will Lose in Iraq and Afghanistan | Stephen M. Walt
Seeded on Sun Aug 28, 2011 11:20 AM EDT (Foreignpolicy)
More broadly, these wars were lost because there is an enormous difference between defeating a third-rate conventional army (which is what Saddam had) and governing a restive, deeply-divided, and well-armed population with a long-standing aversion to all forms of foreign interfer …
Afghan gov't reports massive jailbreak in Kandahar including Taliban
Seeded on Mon Apr 25, 2011 12:28 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Afghan officials say more than 400 inmates have escaped from the main prison in Kandahar city. They say many of the men who dug a tunnel out of the facility are Taliban insurgents.
How We Lost Afghanistan's Once-Peaceful North
Seeded on Tue Oct 12, 2010 9:34 AM EDT (The Atlantic — News and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international, and food – TheAtlantic.com)
On Friday, a bomb blast at a crowded mosque in Afghanistan's Takhar province killed 20 people, among them Governor Mohammed Omar of neighboring Kunduz province.
Plan to Woo Taliban Foot Soldiers Founders
Seeded on Mon Sep 6, 2010 1:09 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Six months after Afghanistan's foreign backers agreed to generous funding for a reintegration effort, so far only $200,000 has been spent by the United States and little or nothing by other donors.
Petraeus Condemns U.S. Church's Plan to Burn Qurans - WSJ.com
Seeded on Mon Sep 6, 2010 1:02 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said the planned burning of Qurans on Sept. 11 by a Florida church could put the lives of American troops in danger and damage the war effort.
Covert Actions
Seeded on Sat Feb 20, 2010 3:59 AM EST (southasiaanalysis.org)
The strongly-presumed hand of Mossad, the Israeli external intelligence agency, in the successful neutralisation of a Damascus-based leader of the Hamas (Mahmoud al- Mabhouh) while he was on a visit to Dubai in January last has come in the wake of other suspected covert actions o …
The Ideological Battle: Insight from Pakistan
Seeded on Sun Nov 1, 2009 4:10 AM EST (terrorismanalysts.com)
On a cloudless day in a large field in Aurakzai Tribal Agency, six thousand heavily armed militants gather.
Operation Praline: The Realization of Al-Suri's Nizam, la Tanzim?
Seeded on Sun Nov 1, 2009 2:53 AM EST (terrorismanalysts.com)
Abu Musab al-Suri, also known as Mustafa Sethmariam Nasar, is currently being held in American custody in an unspecified location. Since he was arrested in Quetta, Pakistan in late October 2005[3] and was handed over into American custody he has dropped off the grid.
Strong messages in Pakistan
Seeded on Sun Nov 1, 2009 2:29 AM EST (atimes.com)
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Pakistan to meet with government officials, civic leaders, businesspeople, and even leaders of the political opposition.
Europe stoops to conquer the uzbeks
Seeded on Sun Nov 1, 2009 2:21 AM EST (atimes.com)
The worsening Afghan war has brought some good news for Uzbekistan. On Tuesday, the European Union announced it was lifting a four-year old arms embargo against Uzbekistan.
Another Insurgency Gains in Pakistan
Seeded on Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:44 AM EDT (The New York Times)
Three local political leaders were seized from a small legal office here in April, handcuffed, blindfolded and hustled into a waiting pickup truck in front of their lawyer and neighboring shopkeepers.
Pakistan should take credible action against terrorists: Manmohan
Seeded on Sun Jul 12, 2009 12:32 AM EDT (hindu.com)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday that India was "willing to walk more than half the distance" to normalise relations if Pakistan reaffirmed that it would bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai massacre to justice and would not allow its territory to be used for te …
Links with Taliban intact: Pakistan Army
Seeded on Sun Jul 12, 2009 12:06 AM EDT (Times of India)
Pakistan continues to have ties with the Taliban and would happily get them to negotiate with the Americans if the US could promise to get the Indians out of Afghanistan.
Theory and Practice of Revolution
Seeded on Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:00 PM EDT (The American Spectator)
Revolutions tend to be processes rather than singular events. What has happened in Iran is no different.
Norks & Nukes
Seeded on Sat Jul 11, 2009 12:37 PM EDT (nationalinterest.org)
Throughout the crisis that began in 2002 over North Korea's nuclear program, the dominant assumption among policy elites in the United States and East Asia was that Pyongyang was merely engaging in hard bargaining.
False familiarity in Xinjiang
Seeded on Sat Jul 11, 2009 11:58 AM EDT (JPost.com)
To Israeli eyes, the international media's coverage of the clashes between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese in Xinjiang province has seemed relatively non-judgmental so far. Chinese authorities are less sanguine, wondering why rioters have been described as peaceful protesters.
Clash of Imams
Seeded on Sat Jul 11, 2009 8:29 AM EDT (The New York Times)
The troubles that have followed the Iranian presidential elections were not a frustrated East European-style "color revolution"; nor was presidential candidate Mir Hussein Moussavi's movement an uprising of liberal Westernized sympathizers against the principles of the Ima …
Can Afghanistan's New"Guardian" Militia Restore Security in the Provinces?
Seeded on Sat Jul 11, 2009 8:14 AM EDT (jamestown.org)
As the security situation in Afghanistan worsened, there was an increase in Taliban attacks in south and central Afghanistan, especially in Wardak province, 30 kilometers west of Kabul.
Our Common Foe
Seeded on Sat Jul 11, 2009 7:52 AM EDT (aei.org)
Part of Obama's reticence may be reflect his advisers' tendency to conflate the Islamic Republic's longstanding and somewhat limited "reform movement" with Iranian civil society as a whole. True, many of the pre-2009 reformists have said that U.S. assistance taints them.
CHINA:Turmoil in Xinjiang- Beijing has a Problem
Seeded on Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:37 AM EDT (southasiaanalysis.org)
The Chinese authorities are usually loath to admit any weakness or anything wrong with the system, stability or their control. Thanks to globalization and information explosion, they have begun to admit draw backs at times.
Pyongyang's cyber terrorism hits home
Seeded on Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:27 AM EDT (atimes.com)
North Korea has caught American and South Korean officials completely by surprise with a shocking cyber-offensive that has broad implications for the North's drive to perfect its ability to deliver weapons of mass destruction to carefully selected targets in Japan, South Korea or …
Was British diplomat set up by the Russian secret service?
Seeded on Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:10 AM EDT (Independent.co.uk)
The Foreign Office says it is fed up with "silly jokes" about "from Russia with love". The official line is that there are far too many real problems in places like Iran and Afghanistan to spend time worrying about a junior diplomat being indiscreet in the Urals.
Niger Delta Standoff
Seeded on Fri Jul 10, 2009 4:32 AM EDT (Foreign Policy In Focus | Home)
Behind fighter-planes and gunboats, Nigerian forces launched a full-scale offensive in the Niger Delta on May 13, displacing 30,000 people and sparking a humanitarian crisis.
Zardari admits terrorism nurtured by govt for tactical use
Seeded on Thu Jul 9, 2009 12:36 AM EDT (Times of India)
In an astonishingly candid admission - a first by any Pakistani head of state - president Asif Ali Zardari has admitted militants and terrorists were wilfully created by past Pakistani governments and nurtured as a policy to achieve tactical objectives.
Mousavi labelled 'US agent' as Iran charges UK official
Seeded on Wed Jul 8, 2009 10:31 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
The stakes over Iran's disputed presidential election were raised dramatically yesterday, after a powerful regime hardliner denounced Mir Hossein Mousavi, the candidate officially declared to have lost, as an American agent and demanded that he undergo a public trial.
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