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Znet Article 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,

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article Porter: Karzai and Warlords Mount Massive Vote Fraud Scheme

Znet Article, August, 21 2009 Gareth Porter
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Afghanistan's presidential election has long been viewed by U.S. officials as a key to conferring legitimacy on the Afghan government, but Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his powerful warlord allies have planned to commit large-scale electoral f...

Znet Article Porter: CIA Secrecy on Drone Attacks Data Hides Abuses

Znet Article, June, 16 2009 Gareth Porter
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Intelligence analysts have been unable to obtain either the list of military targets of the drone strikes or the actual results in terms of al Qaeda or civilians killed, according to a Washington source familiar with internal discussion of the dro...

Znet Article Porter: Commanders in Iraq Challenge Petraeus on Pullout Risk

Znet Article, February, 19 2009 Gareth Porter
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CENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus and Multinational Force Iraq (MNF-I) Commander General Ray Odierno have submitted assessments of Iraq combat troop withdrawal plans to President Barack Obama based on the premise that his 16-month withdrawa...

Znet Article Porter: Generals Seek to Reverse Obama Withdrawal Decision

Znet Article, February, 06 2009 Gareth Porter
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CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus, supported by Defence Secretary Robert Gates, tried to convince President Barack Obama that he had to back down from his campaign pledge to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq within 16 months at an Oval...

Znet Article Porter: Bush Plan Eliminated Obstacle to Gaza Assault

Znet Article, January, 07 2009 Gareth Porter
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Until mid-2007, there was a serious political obstacle to a massive conventional war by Israel against Hamas in Gaza: the fact that Hamas had won free and fair elections for the Palestinian parliament and was still the leading faction in a fully l...

Znet Article Porter: Us Military Planned To Subvert Agreement On Withdrawal

Znet Article, January, 01 2009 Gareth Porter
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Everyone wondered, when Obama won the election, if he would hold to his pledge to withdraw from Iraq. The Pentagon and its political allies had other plans, and were already seeking to reverse the United States' existing agreement with the Iraqi g...

Znet Article Porter: Final Text of Iraq Pact Reveals a U.S. Debacle

Znet Article, October, 23 2008 Gareth Porter
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The final draft of the U.S.-Iraq Status of Forces agreement on the U.S. military presence represents an even more crushing defeat for the policy of the George W. Bush administration than previously thought, the final text reveals.

Znet Article Porter: Intel Council Warned Against Raids in Pakistan

Znet Article, September, 13 2008 Gareth Porter
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The National Intelligence Council, the U.S. intelligence community's focal point for estimating future developments, warned the George W. Bush administration last month that a decision to launch commando raids by U.S. troops against al Qaeda-relat...

Znet Article Porter: Bush Forced al-Maliki to Back Down on Pullout in 2006

Znet Article, July, 30 2008 Gareth Porter
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Many official and unofficial proponents of a long-term US military presence in Iraq are dismissing Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's demand for a US timeline for withdrawal as political posturing, assuming that he will abandon it under pressure.

Znet Article Porter: United States and Israel against Iran

Znet Article, June, 25 2008 Gareth Porter
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This whole unfolding threat to Iran has not been simply a psyops, simply an intimidation operation. We know now for a fact that Dick Cheney did, in fact, propose within the Administration that they attack Revolutionary Guard bases in Iran that we...

Znet Article Porter: Attack Iran? Cheney's Already Tried

Znet Article, June, 10 2008 Gareth Porter
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WASHINGTON - Pentagon officials firmly opposed a proposal by Vice President Dick Cheney last summer for airstrikes against the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) bases by insisting that the administration would have to make clear decisions ...

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