As you’ve probably read this morning, the Pakistani Taliban executed a complex attack — using suicide car bombers and gunmen — on the American consulate in Peshawar. The Taliban didn’t get past a consulate checkpoint. Nor did their team manage to kill any Americans. But they did bring their More…
American missiles, presumably fired by remotely piloted drones, struck twice Wednesday in North Waziristan, the tribal region that is a stronghold of Qaeda and Taliban militants.
One hopes the targeting wasn’t the result, in some vestigial manner, of spotting done by the suicide bomber More…
A picture is emerging of Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, the Jordanian double agent who murdered seven CIA agents and Blackwater contractors in Khost Province last week after convincing U.S. and Jordanian intelligence that he was key to penetrating al-Qaeda on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. He’s an Internet enthusiast, More…
This is the beginning of an assessment written by Maj. Gen. Michael Flynn, the senior-most intelligence adviser to Gen. Stanley McChrystal, for the Center for a New American Security about intelligence and the Afghanistan war:
Eight years into the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. intelligence community is only marginally
After nearly a day’s worth of radio silence from Langley about the suicide bombing at a CIA outpost in eastern Afghanistan, this statement comes from Director Leon Panetta:
Statement on CIA Casualties in Afghanistan
CIA Director Leon E. Panetta informed the Agency workforce today that seven of their colleagues
One of the first things I saw when waking up and checking my BlackBerry was a sardonic note from a contact who works on Afghanistan issues remarking on how much fun it was to see multiple suicide attacks in the heart of Kabul. That would be a reference to More…
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