Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts
Monday, January 30

Yo, State: how do you explain this?

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China wins first Afghan oil extraction contract . Oh but that's right I forgot: you were so busy helping Pakistan scare up American inve...
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Friday, January 27

Urgent advice for State: Warn Obama to stop pushing the envelope (UPDATED 2X)

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UPDATE 2:05 PM ET January 29 Adding two important news reports to the footnotes, both of which I'd misplaced at the time I published th...
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Saturday, October 1

STRIKE UP THE BAND! HAMID KARZAI MAKES A SMART DECISION!

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This is what I've been waiting for: Associated Press, 7:40 PM EDT, UPDATED 8:00 PM : Afghan president gives up trying to talk with Talib...
Thursday, September 15

Rawalpindi wants proof

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September 13 : Taliban launch complex attack on US embassy in Kabul By Bill Roggio Long War Journal The Taliban launched a complex daylight ...
Wednesday, May 25

Counting on his fingers and toes Bill Roggio figures there are more al Qaeda in Afghanistan than ISAF's official total; Batchelor drops verbal JDAM

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ISAF strategy for integrating 'good' Taliban into Afghan government Over the years Long War Journal's Bill Roggio has tracked ...
Tuesday, May 24

Er - sorry to correct The Sun but the talks began when Gordon Brown was PM. Has The Sun forgotten about the Secret Taliban Training Camp Affair?

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(For information on the Secret Taliban Training Camp Affair, see May 11 Pundita post , An Irish Shaggy Dog Story, or one of the two reasons ...
Friday, April 22

Adm. Mullen CYA as Rana prepares to rat out ISI. Meanwhile Rawalpindi rats out Obama and Cameron.

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"Adm. Mullen has long been the most outspoken member of the U.S. government in support of Pakistan's military efforts. Adm. Mullen ...
Monday, January 24

First stop Pakistan military's modus operandi in Afghanistan, then talk to me about defining U.S. success in Afghanistan

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The following are comments I entered at SWJ (Small Wars Journal) blog after a reader sent a link to a post there titled Defining Success in...
Thursday, January 6

The ghost

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The problem for Obama, Mullen, Gates, Clinton, Petraeus and all their advisors is that they cannot comprehend what life was like for Pakista...
Monday, December 27

OSCE's backdoor attempt to influence Thailand's election and why Americans should take note

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OSCE Permanent Council [Flipping her pen in the air] Can't I go on vacation for a few weeks without the cockroaches running riot in Wash...
Sunday, December 12

Richard Holbrooke's surgery: Once again the hand of fate intervenes in Afghan War, and the tale of a matchmaker and the attention-deficit client

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UPDATE From Reuters report 8 PM ET: Holbrooke, 69 years old, underwent another procedure on Sunday to improve his circulation and remains i...
Sunday, December 5

Amrullah Saleh sets the record straight on Taliban imposter, and the question that haunts

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Of course this report got no play in the USA: Taliban impostor warnings ignored by Afghan leaders, says former spy chief by Jon Boone (U.K.)...
Tuesday, November 30

Wikileaks plus first disbursements from 2009 US aid bill for Pakistan already under scrutiny for graft. Senator Richard Lugar please take note.

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December 4 UPDATE Last week Michael Wright prodded and poked Pundita into explaining, in paint-by-numbers fashion, how ISAF can wrest a real...
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