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nrmis
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 Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 12:55 am Post subject: Bombshell from London Think-Tank - No Al-Qaeda Threat! |
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| Quote: | Eric Margolis
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Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:37 CDT
London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), is the world's leading think tank for military affairs. It represents the top echelon of defence experts, retired officers and senior military men, spanning the globe from the United States and Britain to China, Russia and India.
I've been an IISS member for over 20 years. IISS's reports are always authoritative but usually cautious and diplomatic, sometimes dull. However, two weeks ago the IISS issued an explosive report on Afghanistan that is shaking Washington and its Nato allies.
The report, presided over by the former deputy director of Britain's foreign intelligence agency, MI-6, says the threat from al-Qaeda and Taliban has been "exaggerated" by the western powers. The US-led mission in Afghanistan has "ballooned" out of all proportion from its original aim of disrupting and defeating al-Qaeda. The US-led war in Afghanistan, says IISS, using uncharacteristically blunt language, is "a long-drawn-out disaster".
Just recently, CIA chief Leon Panetta admitted there were no more than 50 members of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Yet US President Barack Obama has tripled the number of US soldiers there to 120,000 to fight Al Qaeda.
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James O'Neill
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| Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 8:24 am Post subject: |
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| Does anyone have a citation for this article. I searched the IISS website and couldn't locate it. |
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fish5133
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Could be part of a clever "Exit strategy"
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