Posted by Christopher Allbritton on September 1, 2009 at 10:42 am +0000 · Leave a Comment
Now this is just weird. A Pakistan News is reporting that newly named leader of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is also dead, and that an interview given to BBC earlier was actually his brother. The report goes on to suggest that Hakimullah was killed in in the infighting after the death of Baitullah Mehsud in early August. […]
Posted by Christopher Allbritton on August 7, 2009 at 12:26 pm +0000 · 1 Comment
ISLAMABAD — If confirmed, this would be a huge victory in the fight against takfiri militants in Pakistan: U.S. and Pakistani authorities were investigating whether Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who has led a violent campaign of suicide attacks and assassinations against Pakistan’s government, was killed in a CIA missile strike. A Pakistani official said Friday that reports of […]
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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on April 24, 2009 at 8:14 pm +0000 · Leave a Comment
I’ve been feeling a bit on the uninspired side of things over the past two days, especially after I wrote about the Taliban push into Buner. The magnitude of the problems facing Pakistan and the danger it causes to the world are enough to make anyone a bit moody. But then it seemed the militants were pulling back […]
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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on April 13, 2009 at 6:48 am +0000 · Leave a Comment
There can be no question the Pakistani state is coming under increasing strain from militants, its political system and its international relations. The question is, Where is its breaking point and what can be done to prevent it? And if it comes, then what? Militant pressures A largely takfiri and Pashtun insurgency has been spreading out of […]
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"It was always a bad year to get out of Vietnam"
Posted by Christopher Allbritton on July 17, 2009 at 2:21 pm +0000 · 1 Comment
Compare and contrast: Obama’s Vietnam: “Vietnam analogies can be tiresome. To critics, especially those on the left, all American interventions after Vietnam have been potential “quagmires.” But sometimes clichés come true, and, especially lately, it seems that the war in Afghanistan is shaping up in all-too-familiar ways. The parallels are disturbing: the president, eager to […]
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