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Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

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: 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...

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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 ...

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: 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...

Znet Article Porter: The Week the IAEA Applied a Nuclear Double Standard

Znet Article, December, 20 2009 Gareth Porter
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In 2004, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) revealed that a member state had violated its Safeguards Agreement by carrying out covert uranium conversion and enrichment activities and plutonium experiments for more than two decades. The ...

Znet Article Porter: US-Iran Talks: The Road to Diplomatic Failure

Znet Article, December, 12 2009 Gareth Porter
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The talks between the G5 plus 1 and Iran are careening toward a premature breakdown. If they do fall apart, it will be due in large part to a serious diplomatic miscalculation by the Obama administration. Along with its European allies, the Obama ...

Znet Article Porter: The back door is left open

Znet Article, December, 03 2009 Gareth Porter
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United States President Barack Obama presented a case on Tuesday for sending 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan that included both soaring rhetoric and a new emphasis on its necessity for US national security.

Znet Article Porter: New Light on the Qom Facility

Znet Article, November, 22 2009 Gareth Porter
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published new evidence Monday that Iran had been building "contingency centers" in the event of a U.S. bombing attack as early as 2002, years before it began building the second enrichment facility at ...

Znet Article Porter: The CIA's Afghan Payroll

Znet Article, November, 01 2009 Gareth Porter
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The revelation by the New York Times Wednesday that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has long been on the payroll of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is only the tip of a much bigger iceberg of heavy dependence ...

Znet Article Porter: NIE 2007 Report Suggests Construction was a Response to Bush Threats Against Iran's Nuclear Facilities

Znet Article, October, 24 2009 Gareth Porter
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The Obama administration claims that construction of a second Iranian uranium enrichment facility at Qom began before Tehran's decision to withdraw from a previous agreement to inform the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in advance of suc...

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: Behind Detainee Release

Znet Article, July, 30 2009 Gareth Porter
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WASHINGTON, Jul 12 (IPS) - The release Friday of five Iranians held by the U.S. military in Iraq for two and a half years highlights the long-simmering conflict between the U.S. and Iraqi views of Iranian policy in Iraq and of the role of its Isla...

Znet Article Porter: Behind Detainee Release

Znet Article, July, 17 2009 Gareth Porter
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The release Friday of five Iranians held by the U.S. military in Iraq for two and a half years highlights the long-simmering conflict between the U.S. and Iraqi views of Iranian policy in Iraq and of the role of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Cor...

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: Military Dominance in Mideast Proven a Costly Myth

Znet Article, March, 11 2009 Gareth Porter
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Six years ago, after the United States had removed the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the U.S. appeared to be militarily dominant in the region...

Znet Article Porter: US-AFGHANISTAN: Obama Nixed Full Surge After Quizzing Brass

Znet Article, February, 23 2009 Gareth Porter
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President Barack Obama decided to approve only 17,000 of the 30,000 troops requested by Gen. David McKiernan, the top commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, and Gen. David Petraeus, the CENTCOM commander, after McKiernan was unable to t...

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: Petraeus Leaked Misleading Story on Pullout Plans

Znet Article, February, 10 2009 Gareth Porter
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The political maneuvering between President Barack Obama and his top field commanders over withdrawal from Iraq has taken a sudden new turn with the leak by CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus - and a firm denial by a White House official - of a...

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: Obama Pressured to Back Off Iraq Withdrawal

Znet Article, November, 13 2008 Gareth Porter
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Despite subtle and unsubtle pressures to compromise on his withdrawal plan, however, Obama is likely to pass over Gates and stand firm on his campaign pledge on military withdrawal from Iraq, according to a well-informed source close to the Obama ...

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: New Evidence Shows Bush Had No Plan to Catch bin Laden After 9/11

Znet Article, October, 09 2008 Gareth Porter
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New evidence from former U.S. officials reveals that the George W. Bush administration failed to adopt any plan to block the retreat of Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders from Afghanistan to Pakistan in the first weeks after 9/11.

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