Posts Tagged ‘Intelligence’
Americans-Afghans Ban Coverage of Mujahideen/Taleban Attacks
International Business Times | By Sayed Salahuddin and Hamid Shalizi | 2 March 2010 Afghanistan bans coverage of Taliban attacks KABUL - Afghanistan on Monday announced a ban on news coverage showing Taliban attacks, saying such images embolden the Islamist militants, who have launched strikes around the country as NATO forces seize their [...]
British Intelligence on Ayub Khan’s Generals (1966)
Business Recorder | 27 February 2010 Declassified British Intelligence About Pakistan Army: CHANGES IN THE HIGH COMMAND REF: DO 196/316 2-INT/RAW.6/60/1 British High Commission, Rawalpindi. 5 May, 1966 M.K.Ewans, Esq., Common wealth Relations Office, S.W.1. Dear Ewans, Would you please refer to my letter 2-INT/RAW.6/60/1 of 28 [...]
Mujahideen/Taleban on the Resistance in Afghanistan
Voice of Jihad | Interview by Hekmat | 25 February 2010 Interview with Qari M. Yousaf Ahmadi, spokesman of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, about the general jihadic situation in Helmand and the neighboring provinces. Q: How do you see the current Jihadic situation in Helmand province and other surrounding provinces? A: Mujahideen’s [...]
On Afghanistan — From the Green Beret Who Trained Mulla Omar
Times | From Anthony Lloyd, Rawalpindi | 23 February 2010 Colonel Imam: ‘I have the Green Beret but the Taleban beret is better’ Perhaps no man alive knows Mullah Omar, his Taleban insurgents and the American military quite so well as “Colonel Imam”, a battle-creased Pakistani officer who wears a faded British paratrooper’s [...]
American Bribes Flowing from Kabul to Dubai
Washington Post | By Andrew Higgins | 25 February 2010 Officials puzzle over millions of dollars leaving Afghanistan by plane for Dubai KABUL -- A blizzard of bank notes is flying out of Afghanistan -- often in full view of customs officers at the Kabul airport -- as part of a cash exodus that is confounding U.S. officials and raising [...]
U.S. Senate Looking into Blackwater/Xe and Other Mercenaries’ Wrongdoings
Christian Science Monitor | By Gordon Lubold| 24 February 2010 Blackwater fallout: Senate moves to rein in military contractors The Senate holds a hearing Wednesday on ways to improve oversight of private military contractors, after a series of incidents involving Blackwater. On Tuesday, Rep. Jan Schakowsky and Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a [...]
Notes on the US Budget for FY2011 as it Affects Afghanistan and Pakistan
This review of the U.S. President’s FY2011 budget request reflects two underlying concerns: (1) how much of the U.S. taxpayers’ money is being provided for military and diplomatic expenditures in the main theaters of war; and (2) how long can the United States sustain these levels of spending, and at what cost? While these questions are not [...]
Terrorised Marjah Patients Can’t Get To Hospital
IRIN | 21 February 2010 AFGHANISTAN: Where patients fear to tread KABUL, 18 February 2010 (IRIN) - The only functioning health post in conflict-affected Marjah in Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, is not being used because people fear they could get caught in crossfire if they try and get there, according to the International Committee [...]
Fox News: Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Captured in Karachi; Taleban Deny
Fox News | 15 February 2010 Top Taliban Military Chief Captured in U.S.-Pakistani Raid The Taliban’s top military commander was captured in a joint operation by U.S. and Pakistani forces in Karachi and is being questioned in the same city, sources confirmed to Fox News late Monday. See: Taleban Denial Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is the [...]
An Indian View on Af/Pak
Indian Express | By Pranab Dhal Samanta | 12 February 2010 Exit causes In the past few days, Pakistan has been seen to be gradually revealing its plan ahead of what has come to be known as the “surge year” in US President Barack Obama’s Af-Pak policy. Having made it clear to the NATO top brass at Brussels that Pakistan does seek strategic [...]
