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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on September 10, 2009 at 1:19 am +0000 · Leave a Comment
Stepping away from insurgencies and kidnapped reporters for a moment, the Open Source Center has a translation of an Aug. 31 interview between Pakistan’s nuclear Fu Manchu, A.Q. Khan, and Nadeem Malik of Aaj News Television out of Karachi. In it, Khan reveals details of the panic in Pakistan in the mid-1970s after India tested a bomb, sparking a crash […]
Posted by Christopher Allbritton on April 9, 2009 at 3:53 pm +0000 · Leave a Comment
My friend, Eason Jordan, who’s launching AfPax later this year, scores an exclusive interview with Siraj Haqqani, one of the Taliban’s top commanders. Siraj is the son of Jalaluddin Haqqani, head of the al Qaeda-affiliated network that bears his name. Unlike the Baitullah Mehsud group, the Haqqani network doesn’t usually target the Pakistani state, preferring […]
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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on April 9, 2009 at 6:13 am +0000 · 2 Comments
On Tuesday, the media arm of al Qaeda, as-Sahab Media, released an almost hour-long video featuring an interview with Mullah Nazzer Ahmad, aka Maulvi Nazir, who is the emir of South Waziristan. This is his first appearance in an as-Sahab video, according to IntelCenter, and is significant in that it ties the Pakistani Taliban leader […]
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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on April 3, 2009 at 10:09 am +0000 · Leave a Comment
Al Jazeera English has a decent feature on Ismail Khan, known as the “Lion of Herat” and one of the Taliban’s most implacable foes. In the 1990s, as the militant group was starting its march from the south, Khan held onto Herat in the west and set up schools (with parity for girls) and helped Herat […]
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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on April 2, 2009 at 2:49 pm +0000 · Leave a Comment
Nicholas Schmidle, author of the upcoming book, “To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan” spoke with the New Republic about the attacks in Lahore and the claim of responsibility by Baitullah Mehsud. He makes some of the same points I did, in that the expansion of the Pashtun insurgency into Punjabi lands […]
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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on April 1, 2009 at 9:52 am +0000 · Leave a Comment
Australia’s The Age has a report on Abu Mansoor al-Amriki incorporating some of the video I posted on yesterday. The ambush he speaks of has not yet been verified.
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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on March 22, 2009 at 5:29 pm +0000 · 1 Comment
The Washington Post has a good interview with COIN theorist and author David Kilcullen. His new book, “The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One,” is getting a lot of attention among those following and thinking about the Af-Pak theater and this latest interview is definitely food for thought. His comments on Pakistan, particularly should be a wake-up call for anyone still asleep.
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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on March 9, 2009 at 2:36 am +0000 · 2 Comments
I had the pleasure and privilege of having dinner with Ahmed Rashid tonight and Azim Nanji. Rashid is the go-to journalist and author on all things Taliban, having authored two best-selling books on the subject: Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, and Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building […]
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The Iraqi Endgame: A Podcast
Posted by Christopher Allbritton on August 13, 2009 at 6:04 pm +0000 · Leave a Comment
So the other day I did a podcast interview with the International Relations and Security Network, based in Zurich. The very nice interviewer, Kaisa Schreck, asked some pointed questions and I hope I was able to draw upon my experience in Iraq to give some insightful answers. I’ll let you be the judge, however. You can listen to the […]
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