Archives for the 'Pakistan' Category
Barackerry Obama
Published on 8 Aug 2007 at 12:14 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under Pakistan, pols.
He was against it after they said he was for it. Day before yesterday:
Happy Ending
Published on 7 Aug 2007 at 11:00 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under Afghanistan, Pakistan.
More like this. Taliban stages brazen attack on U.S. base:
News of Waziristan
Published on 29 Jul 2007 at 8:56 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, Pakistan.
Times of London, Musharraf risks civil war. Account of operations in North Waziristan:
Pak Ops
Published on 24 Jul 2007 at 9:20 am.
4 Comments.
Filed under Pakistan, al qaeda.
US rumblings about attacking AQ in Pakistan, where containment isn’t working. Usually, this kind of talk prompts Pak action. Paks distracted at present.
Iran Talk
Published on 18 Jul 2007 at 9:45 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under Iran, Pakistan.
Stratfor weighs in with a little realpolitik re Iran and Pakistan:
Stuff in That Place Next to India
Published on 30 Mar 2007 at 4:04 pm.
3 Comments.
Filed under Afghanistan, Pakistan, UN.
OK, I think I’m starting to get the hang of it. Afghan armed freedom fighter-style horseplay in … damn … look I didn’t name the place … OK, OK, we’ll do it your way … in the capital of Pakistan. There. Are you happy?
Read ‘Stuff in That Place Next to India’
Win-Win
Published on 22 Mar 2007 at 8:31 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under Pakistan, al qaeda.
Pro-Taliban tribesmen vs. al-Qaeda Uzbeks in South Waziristan. At least 58 dead! It’s hard to know which side to cheer for!*
CSM.com has a roundup here. Best line, NYT:
Pakistani government officials said they had no role in the latest fighting, but watched it with considerable optimism.
“Let the tribespeople deal with the situation,” one government official said. [...]
Taliban Targets Cheney
Published on 27 Feb 2007 at 10:15 am.
7 Comments.
Filed under Afghanistan, Pakistan.
“At 10 a.m., I heard a loud boom.”
Soon after the blast, Cheney — who officials say was never in danger from the blast at the sprawling base — went ahead with talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in the capital.
Asked if he had ever considered changing his plans to go to Kabul, Cheney said that [...]
Pak It Up
Published on 26 Feb 2007 at 11:53 am.
7 Comments.
Filed under Pakistan, al qaeda.
Cheney shows up unexpectedly and tells Musharraf what he doesn’t want to hear:
How Al-Sadr Became the Most Powerful Man in Iraq, and other stuff that happened a long time ago, elsewhere
Published on 21 Feb 2007 at 12:48 am.
10 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, Pakistan, media, military.
I have to think this Foreign Policy article by the NYT’s Dexter Filkins on Moqtada al-Sadr’s rise power and how he is now waiting in the wings, with no mention of how far into the wings he has now retreated, suffers greatly from a 20th-century production schedule, not to mention superficiality that renders the headline overhype. But [...]
