A promise to end drone attacks at the height of their impact might provide an effective bargaining chip to entice Taliban leaders to agree to reconciliation negotiations:
- Pakistan Taliban: US Drone Strikes Forcing Militants Underground (Christian Science Monitor)
It is hard to believe that “AIPAC’s hard-line, rightist views of the Arab-Israeli conflict have not once influenced the ‘education’ imparted on the 480 trips (at a cost of $4,024,845) sponsored by AIEF since Jan. 2000”:
- Congressional Junket Front-Page News Unless it’s a Trip to Israel (Washington Report on Middle East Affairs)
As Israel demonstrates its contempt for U.S. objections …
- Israel Rejects Settlement Halt (Al Jazeera)
Uri Avnery argues it is only the timing of the announcement that has stoked the controversy (as in, “It’s worse than criminal, it’s stupid”):
- Wiping the Spit Off His Face (Information Clearing House)
As Mullah Umar claims he has been misrepresented on education for women, an umbrella group complains that the Karzai government’s view “that women are not important … has not been changed in the past eight years”:
- Afghan Women Fear Loss of Hard-Won Progress (Washington Post)
The failed truce should come as no suprise as the agreement did not address the insurgents’ complaints of discrimination:
- Yemen Says Rebels Violating Truce Deal (Reuters)
Michael Furlong is accused of having step up a network of spies and assassins to develop intelligence to be used by military units to track and target insurgents:
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