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Dec 21 |
Bureaucracy, CIA |
Ray Converse |
2243 Views
Robert Grenier wrote 88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary detailing his experiences in the critical days of CIA’s involvement in Afghanistan in the weeks following the 9/11 attacks. Ironically, one might consider this the...
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Jul 29 |
Intelligence Collection, Terrorism |
Aki Peritz |
3654 Views
So is Mullah Omar dead, or isn’t he? Sky News quoted the longtime Taliban leader’s son, Mullah Yacoub, said the reclusive figure died a few years ago from tuberculosis, while an Afghan Taliban commander told a Reuters...
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Jul 20 |
Intelligence Analysis, Terrorism |
Aki Peritz |
4588 Views
It’s been a rough 2015 for ISIS—no, not in Iraq and Syria, nor in Libya, but in faraway Afghanistan, where the terror group is trying to establish a foothold. In the last month: Shahidullah Shahid, a former...