Friday, September 30, 2011

Council on Foreign Relations: How the Haqqani Network is Expanding From Waziristan

How the Haqqani Network is Expanding From Waziristan

September 30, 2011

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How the Haqqani Network is Expanding From Waziristan

Michael Semple

The network of militants operating in Pakistan's tribal areas are playing an increasingly destabilizing role in NATO's possible negotiations with the Taliban. Read

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Mullen Takes on the ISI

Aqil Shah

The United States has long had evidence that Pakistan's ISI backs the Haqqani network,

but it took an attack on the U.S. embassy in Kabul for Obama officials to condemn it publicly.

If Islamabad does not clean up its act, Washington needs to follow up rhetoric with military sanctions. Read

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The Pentagon's Cyberstrategy, One Year Later

William J. Lynn III

More destructive cyberweapons are being created every day,

and an increasingly sophisticated technology black market virtually guarantees

that they will eventually land in the hands of the United States' enemies.

Robust defenses are no longer a luxury, they are a necessity. Read

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The Resignation of Wadah Khanfar and the Future of Al Jazeera

Philip Seib

Speculation is swirling as to why Wadah Khanfar, the director general of the

Arab world's most powerful satellite news broadcaster, resigned his post last week.

But the real question is whether the network can survive the challenges it now faces. Read

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Securing the Sinai

Amr Yossef

In the months since the Egyptian revolution, the Sinai has grown increasingly unstable,

and jihadi groups operating in the area threaten to ignite the already tense

Egyptian-Israeli relationship. What the Sinai needs is not more Egyptian troops,

however, but a program of political and economic development. Read

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Behind Qatar's Intervention In Libya

David Roberts

Although Qatar has been an active player in the Middle East for some time,

its intervention in Libya represented a dramatic break with its behind-the-scenes

diplomacy of the past. Qatar hopes to turn its aid to the Libyan rebels

into a role as an invaluable go-between for Western countries looking to engage post-Qaddafi Libya. Read

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Yemen's Hijacked Revolution

Letta Tayler

In recent months, as the world's attention shifted to Libya and elsewhere in the Arab world,

Yemen's pro-democracy protests were overshadowed by a struggle among

three of the country's most entrenched power brokers. Read

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Overturning Lee Kuan Yew's Legacy in Singapore

Amitav Acharya

Singapore's storied first prime minister gave his countrymen stability and prosperity.

A new generation of Singaporeans with little recollection of his crusade

against poverty and violence wants democracy as well,

challenging Lee's principle that popular rule would threaten stability and development. Read

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