Al Jazeera Worldwide Integrity Survives Western Smear Campaigns [cablegate]
“While we do not claim to get it right all of the time (we are only human), we have got it right most of the time.”
The Pakistani army adopts ‘eye-for-an-eye’ against the Taliban
SUMMARY executions, torture, humiliation; several videos have recently appeared on the Internet which reveal the dark side of the Pakistani army struggle against the Taliban. These videos were filmed during an assault launched against the Taliban in the Swat valley a little under a year ago. One of them (below) shows the execution of a…
Afghanistan: Boots on the Ground Assessment
Reflecting on my coverage of the latest UN report released on Tuesday showing a 31 per cent increase in overall Afghan civilians casualties, a couple of questions raised in my mind about the overall chances for success by the US-led coalition. Number-crunchers from the UN’s Assistance Mission Afghanistan (UNAMA) now say the Taliban and other…
SpyTalk: North Korean missles to Taliban
Ex-spies ponder N. Korean missile sale to Taliban CIA-supplied Stinger missiles proved to be a game-changer for mujaheddinAccording to one of the intelligence reports obtained by WikiLeaks, one of the Afghan insurgency’s most powerful figures, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, traveled to North Korea in 2005 with a top aide to Osama bin Laden and purchased ground-to-air missiles….
West depends on Pakistani intelligence but ISI military still have links to Afghan Taliba
Sajjan Gohel, International Security Director for the London-based Asia-Pacific Foundation. STORY HIGHLIGHTS * UK engagement with Pakistan part of recognition of the country’s importance * West depends on Pakistani intelligence but ISI, military still have links to Afghan Taliban * Pakistani military sees Afghanistan in terms of its “strategic depth” * Concern also that Pakistan…
Americans Losing the Arghandab they never had
Losing hearts and minds they never had By Clayton Swisher in Asia 82nd Airborne soldiers in Arghandab Photo by Tom Nicholson Fighting the Taliban in Arghandab – where much of its history is based – is like taking on the Italian Mafia in Sicily. As far as war goes in Afghanistan, it remains one of…
The Death of War in Afghanistan
The Death of the War in Afghanistan By recording failure in meticulous detail, the leaked war logs bear devastating witness to our incompetence In Vietnam the horror of fighting was brought to TV screens in real time. Such was the reaction that American citizens withdrew their consent. In the 1980s computers were said to have…