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Porter: Ex-PM Says Taliban Offer Talks For Pullout Date
Znet Article, July, 31 2011
Gareth Porter
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The Taliban leadership is ready to negotiate peace with the United States right now if Washington indicates its willingness to provide a timetable for complete withdrawal,
Porter: Obama Endorses Long-Term US Deployment of US Combat Troops
Znet Article, June, 27 2011
Gareth Porter
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The Obama decision gives Petraeus the first full season with all or almost all of the troops he had wanted
Porter: Why Washington Clings To A Failed Middle East Strategy
Znet Article, February, 04 2011
Gareth Porter
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The death throes of the Mubarak regime in Egypt signal a new level of crisis for a U.S. Middle East strategy that has shown itself over and over again in recent years to be based on nothing more than the illusion of power.
Porter: US Stepping Up Pressure on Pakistan
Znet Article, December, 26 2010
Gareth Porter
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This week's leak to the New York Times of a proposal for U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) raids against Afghan insurgent sanctuaries in Pakistan may be intended to put more pressure on the Pakistani military to take action against those sanctu...
Porter: Intel Failure in Yemen
Znet Article, November, 16 2010
Gareth Porter
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The drone war that has been anticipated in Yemen for the last few months has been delayed by the failure of U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) to generate usable intelligence on al Qaeda there.
Porter: Blowback in Kandahar
Znet Article, September, 18 2010
Gareth Porter
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During a round of media interviews last month, Gen. David Petraeus released totals for the alleged results of nearly 3,000 "night raids" by Special Operations Forces (SOF) units over the 90 days from May through July: 365 "insurgent leaders" kille...
Porter: Obama Drops 2009 Pledge to Withdraw Combat Troops from Iraq
Znet Article, August, 05 2010
Gareth Porter
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Seventeen months after president Barack Obama pledged to withdraw all combat brigades from Iraq by Sep. 1, 2010, he quietly abandoned that pledge Monday, admitting implicitly that such combat brigades would remain until the end of 2011.
Porter: Zombie Neocon Strategy Behind Israel's "Bomb Iran" Campaign
Znet Article, August, 02 2010
Gareth Porter
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Reuel Marc Gerecht’s screed justifying an Israeli bombing attack on Iran coincides with the opening the new Israel lobby campaign marked by the introduction of House resolution 1553 expressing full support for such an Israeli attack.
Porter: Amiri Told CIA Iran Has No Nuclear Bomb Program
Znet Article, July, 20 2010
Gareth Porter
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Contrary to a news media narrative that Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri has provided intelligence on covert Iranian nuclear weapons work, CIA sources familiar with the Amiri case say he told his CIA handlers that there is no such Iranian nuclear w...
Porter: Switch to Petraeus Betrays Afghan Policy Crisis
Znet Article, June, 25 2010
Gareth Porter
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Despite President Barack Obama's denial that his decision to fire Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal as commander in Afghanistan and replace him with Gen. David Petraeus signified any differences with McChrystal over war strategy, the decision obviously r...
Porter: McChrystal Faces "Iraq 2006 Moment" in Coming Months
Znet Article, June, 14 2010
Gareth Porter
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Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal confronts the spectre of a collapse of U.S. political support for the war in Afghanistan in coming months comparable to the one that occurred in the Iraq War in late 2006.
Porter: Fuel Swap Shakes Sanctions Draft, Prods U.S. on New Iran Talks
Znet Article, May, 31 2010
Gareth Porter
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Although the Barack Obama administration continued to dismiss the May 17 Iranian fuel swap agreement Friday, there are indications that Iran's move has shaken the agreement among U.N. Security Council members on sanctions, and is bringing Russian ...
Porter: US Says Only Reason for Talks With Iran Is Enrichment Halt
Znet Article, May, 22 2010
Gareth Porter
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The agreement on draft Security Council resolution sanctions against Iran has grabbed the headlines on the Barack Obama administration's response to Iran's nuclear swap proposal brokered by Turkey and Brazil. But the more consequential response is...
Porter: Pentagon Doubts Grow on McChrystal War Plan
Znet Article, May, 13 2010
Gareth Porter
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Although Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal's plan for wresting the Afghan provinces of Helmand and Kandahar from the Taliban is still in its early stages of implementation, there are already signs that setbacks and obstacles it has encountered have raise...
Porter: US Nuclear Option on Iran Linked to Israeli Attack Threat
Znet Article, April, 25 2010
Gareth Porter
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The Barack Obama administration's declaration in its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that it is reserving the right to use nuclear weapons against Iran represents a new element in a strategy of persuading Tehran that an Israeli attack on Iranian nucl...
Porter: Two-Thirds of Boys in Afghan Jails Are Brutalised, Study Finds
Znet Article, April, 05 2010
Gareth Porter
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Nearly two of every three male juveniles arrested in Afghanistan are physically abused, according to a study based on interviews with 40 percent of all those now incarcerated in the country's juvenile justice system.
Porter: Jailed Taliban Leader Still a Pakistani Asset
Znet Article, February, 20 2010
Gareth Porter
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Contrary to initial U.S. suggestions that it signals reduced Pakistani support for the Taliban, the detention of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the operational leader of the Afghan Taliban, represents a shift by Pakistan to more open support for the ...
Porter: Taliban Regime Pressed bin Laden on Anti-US Terror
Znet Article, February, 13 2010
Gareth Porter
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Evidence now available from various sources, including recently declassified U.S. State Department documents, shows that the Taliban regime led by Mullah Mohammad Omar imposed strict isolation on Osama bin Laden after 1998 to prevent him from carr...
Porter: New Revelations Tear Holes in Nuclear Trigger Story
Znet Article, January, 06 2010
Gareth Porter
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New revelations about two documents leaked to The Times of London to show that Iran is working on a "nuclear trigger" mechanism have further undermined the credibility of the document the newspaper had presented as evidence of a continuing Iranian...
Porter: US Intelligence Found Iran Nuke Document Was Forged
Znet Article, December, 30 2009
Gareth Porter
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U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a "neutron initiator" for an atomic weapon, is a fabricat...
