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POPSPakistan cuts deal with Taliban Presumably Pakistan has a pretty good sense of which way the wind is blowing. Also interesting bit on the growing distance between Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
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POPSThe dawning realization--two wars! Afghanistan slowly percolates back into the Administration's consciousness, especially since the Taliban and Al Qaeda appear to be gearing up for an embarrassingly large Spring offensive.
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POPSA-Qaeda adapts to new conditions The article contains interesting information, but also shows the differences between the ways Al-Qaeda is discussed in the US media and overseas. While the American public, and probably policy makers, consume an image of Al-Qaeda as a SMERSH-like monolith complete with an evil genius, Shahzad presents a far more nuanced picture.
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POPSNew Yorker article on anthropology and GWOT This one of the articles where Clipmarks implodes--big paragraphs. Anyway interesting article on an anthropologist working in the State Department counterterrorism department. Some good, maybe commonsense, observations and a few creepy bits, e.g. "Cultural Operations Research Human Terrain." Worth reading in full.
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POPSThe Stick Figure Guide to Winning in Iraq As described in the article, the creator of this humorous, optimistic cartoon, a young Captain Travis Patriquin, was killed by an improvised explosive device in Iraq just last Wednesday. His creation has been circulating among the troops and, lately, across the internet. PDF version of the presentation .
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POPSInterview with outsourced-torture victim "We don’t know what information the Americans had which led to his capture, because they’ve taken the position that they're not prepared to discuss this case under any circumstances whatsoever. So it’s really only guesswork on our part as to what information they had on him."
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POPSLetter From Kevin Tillman on Iraq War "Somehow American leadership, whose only credit is lying to its people and illegally invading a nation, has been allowed to steal the courage, virtue and honor of its soldiers on the ground. " SPOT ON!
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