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• Pakistan intelligence rift shows deepening US frustration: analysts

  - 2008-07-31

  WASHINGTON AFP — A reported rift between the US and Pakistani intelligence agencies reflects deepening US frustration over Islamabad's role in a worsening insurgency in Afghanistan, analysts said here. Suspicions about Pakistani intentions have grown in recent weeks following a suicide bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul, a...

  Tags: Afghanistan, Agence France-Presse, CIA, Pakistan, SECURITY

• Al-Qaida thrives, grows as U.S. spins its wheels

  - 2008-06-30

  WASHINGTON -- Late last year, top Bush administration officials decided to take a step they had long resisted. They drafted a secret plan to authorize the Pentagon's Special Operations forces to launch missions into the snow-capped mountains of Pakistan to capture or kill top leaders of al-Qaida. Intelligence...

  Tags: Afghanistan, CIA, Pakistan, U.S.

• Real Charlie Wilson toppled 'evil empire'

  - 2008-05-04

  If there's one constant in the extraordinary, almost mythic story of former U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson, who was instrumental in bringing about the defeat of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, it's that it is shot through with irony after contradiction, and contradiction after irony. Wilson -- whose story...

  Tags: Afghanistan, CIA, irony, women

• A right Charlie and an Afghan hound; DVDS

  - 2008-05-02

  Byline: By DAMON SMITH Film critic Charlie Wilson's War (Cert 15, 97 mins, Universal Pictures UK, Drama/Comedy, also available to buy DVD pounds 19.99) Starring: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Shiri Appleby, Rachel Nichols, Mary Bonner Baker, Om Puri, Ned Beatty. Based on...

  Tags: Afghanistan, CIA, congressman, DVD, mushroom

• Pentagon: Top al-Qaida figure caught last year

  - 2008-03-15

  WASHINGTON -- After secret interrogations, the CIA transferred to U.S. military custody a high-level al-Qaida figure who helped Osama bin Laden escape from Afghanistan in 2001, the Pentagon announced Friday. Mohammad Rahim was detained last summer, CIA Director Michael Hayden said, but the intelligence official didn't reveal...

  Tags: Afghanistan, CIA, Pentagon, U.S.

• Osama aide was captured last summer

  - 2008-03-15

  WASHINGTON -- After secret interrogations, the CIA transferred to U.S. military custody a high-level al-Qaida figure who helped Osama bin Laden escape from Afghanistan in 2001, the Pentagon announced Friday. Mohammad Rahim was captured last summer in Lahore, Pakistan, according to a diplomatic official who spoke on condition...

  Tags: Afghanistan, CIA, U.S.

• Bin Laden associate in US custody: Pentagon

  - 2008-03-14

  WASHINGTON AFP — The Pentagon Friday disclosed the capture of an Afghan national who helped arrange Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's escape from Tora Bora in the mountains of Afghanistan in late 2001. Muhammed Rahim, described as one of Bin Laden's most trusted facilitators and procurement specialists, was turned...

  Tags: Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, CIA, Leadership, Pentagon

• Landon lecture at Kansas State University

  - 2008-03-01

  [The following are excerpts of the speech delivered at the Kansas State University, 26 November 2007.] Looking around the world today, optimism and idealism would not seem to have much of a place at the table. There is no shortage of anxiety about where our nation is headed and...

  Tags: Afghanistan, America, CIA, DOS, Government, Iraq, SOFTWARE, U.S.

• Press Briefing by Tony Fratto

  - 2008-02-06

  WASHINGTON -- James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 12:35 P.M. EST MR. FRATTO: Good afternoon, everyone. I think you saw the President's comments earlier today. As you know, our thoughts and prayers are with the people who lost loved ones in the devastating storms that struck numerous states...

  Tags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, CIA, director, Government, NATO, nominee, president, PRODUCTIVITY, secretary, senator, SOFTWARE, technique, torture, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Senate

• Hollywood Produces a Rare Pro-American Movie

  - 2008-01-07

  Charlie Wilson's War Scores High While you might not leave the theater saying Charlie Wilson's War is the best movie you've ever seen, you'll recognize it as by far the best written, best acted, least preachy and most entertaining "politics of war" movie in some time. Charlie Wilson's...

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