SECURITY IN AFGHANISTAN DETERIORATED IN PAST YEAR
"Confidential UN maps show a clear deterioration in security in parts of Afghanistan this year... highlight a particular decline in parts of the north and east... in the provinces of Badghis, Sari Pul, Balkh, Parwan, Baghlan, Samangan, Faryab, Laghman and Takhar..."
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20101227/tap-afghanistan-unrest-un-eea7cf4.html
Monday, December 27, 2010
Saturday, December 18, 2010
PENTAGON IGNORES GLOOMY WAR VIEW
"... the most recent National Intelligence Estimates reports... warn that large swathes of Afghanistan are at risk of falling to the Taliban. The latest NIE report, a consensus view of America's 16 intelligence agencies, concludes that the US cannot succeed in Afghanistan while Pakistan remains unwilling or unable to shut down militant safe havens in its territory or end covert support for the Afghan Taliban. The contradiction has set the US intelligence community on a collision course with the Pentagon, which was working overtime yesterday to discredit the NIE report..."
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/pentagon-ignores-gloomy-war-view/story-e6frg6so-1225971734981
"... the most recent National Intelligence Estimates reports... warn that large swathes of Afghanistan are at risk of falling to the Taliban. The latest NIE report, a consensus view of America's 16 intelligence agencies, concludes that the US cannot succeed in Afghanistan while Pakistan remains unwilling or unable to shut down militant safe havens in its territory or end covert support for the Afghan Taliban. The contradiction has set the US intelligence community on a collision course with the Pentagon, which was working overtime yesterday to discredit the NIE report..."
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/pentagon-ignores-gloomy-war-view/story-e6frg6so-1225971734981
NIE National Intelligence Estimate Gives Negative View of War
"... reports, called National Intelligence Estimates, represent the consensus view of the United States’ 16 intelligence agencies, as opposed to the military... (and) offer a more negative assessment... (saying) there is a limited chance of success unless Pakistan hunts down insurgents operating from havens on its Afghan border..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/world/asia/15policy.html?_r=1
"... reports, called National Intelligence Estimates, represent the consensus view of the United States’ 16 intelligence agencies, as opposed to the military... (and) offer a more negative assessment... (saying) there is a limited chance of success unless Pakistan hunts down insurgents operating from havens on its Afghan border..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/world/asia/15policy.html?_r=1
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