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	<title>War in Context &#187; Taliban</title>
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		<title>Afghan tribal rivalries bedevil a U.S. plan</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/03/12/afghan-tribal-rivalries-bedevil-a-u-s-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=3997</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times reports:
Six weeks ago, elders of the Shinwari tribe, which dominates a large area in southeastern Afghanistan, pledged that they would set aside internal differences to focus on fighting the Taliban.
This week, that commitment seemed less important as two Shinwari subtribes took up arms to fight each other over an ancient land [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Afghan tribal rivalries bedevil a U.S. plan", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/03/12/afghan-tribal-rivalries-bedevil-a-u-s-plan/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>U.S., Afghan officials hope insurgent feud signals split</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/03/09/u-s-afghan-officials-hope-insurgent-feud-signals-split/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=3826</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[McClatchy reports:
Simmering divisions between rival Islamist groups erupted into open warfare in northern Afghanistan this weekend as Taliban forces battled fighters from one of their main allies, Afghan officials said Sunday.
With their leader pursuing tentative peace talks with the Afghan government, more than 100 Hezb-i-Islami militants fighting the Taliban put down their weapons and surrendered [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "U.S., Afghan officials hope insurgent feud signals split", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/03/09/u-s-afghan-officials-hope-insurgent-feud-signals-split/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Former Pakistani officer embodies a policy puzzle for the US</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/03/05/former-pakistani-officer-embodies-a-policy-puzzle-for-the-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=3684</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Carlotta Gall spoke to a US-trained former colonel in Pakistan’s spy agency, who spent 20 years running insurgents in and out of Afghanistan:
If Colonel Imam personifies the double edge of Pakistan’s policy toward the Taliban, he also embodies the deep connection Pakistan has to the Afghan insurgents, and possibly the key to controlling them.
Once a [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Former Pakistani officer embodies a policy puzzle for the US", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/03/05/former-pakistani-officer-embodies-a-policy-puzzle-for-the-us/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistani reports capture of a Taliban leader</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/02/23/pakistani-reports-capture-of-a-taliban-leader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=3367</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times reports:
In another blow to the Taliban senior leadership, Pakistani authorities have captured Mullah Abdul Kabir, a member of the group’s inner circle and a leading military commander against American forces in eastern Afghanistan, according to a Pakistani intelligence official.
American officials in the region and in Washington said they had received some [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Pakistani reports capture of a Taliban leader", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/02/23/pakistani-reports-capture-of-a-taliban-leader/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing what&#8217;s wrong in Washington&#8230; in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/02/22/fixing-whats-wrong-in-washington-in-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2010/02/22/fixing-whats-wrong-in-washington-in-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Obama administration]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=3326</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Engelhardt, noting that the US government is broke and that there is a bipartisan consensus that Washington is paralyzed, asks:
Why does the military of a country convinced it&#8217;s becoming ungovernable think itself so capable of making another ungovernable country governable?  What’s the military’s skill set here?  What lore, what body of political [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Fixing what&#8217;s wrong in Washington&#8230; in Afghanistan", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/02/22/fixing-whats-wrong-in-washington-in-afghanistan/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Was the arrest of the Taliban&#8217;s second-in-command a strategic blunder?</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/02/17/was-the-arrest-of-the-talibans-second-in-command-a-strategic-blunder/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2010/02/17/was-the-arrest-of-the-talibans-second-in-command-a-strategic-blunder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Editorials]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated below
The capture of the Taliban&#8217;s second in command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, has been hailed as a huge blow to the Taliban but it may turn out to deliver an even bigger blow to President Obama&#8217;s hopes for an early withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.
Hajji Agha Lalai, former head of the Afghan government-led [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Was the arrest of the Taliban&#8217;s second-in-command a strategic blunder?", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/02/17/was-the-arrest-of-the-talibans-second-in-command-a-strategic-blunder/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Deal with the Taliban pragmatists &#8212; not the elusive &#8216;moderates&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/02/05/deal-with-the-taliban-pragmatists-not-the-elusive-moderates/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2010/02/05/deal-with-the-taliban-pragmatists-not-the-elusive-moderates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=2935</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Semple, a fellow at the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, says that an attempt to cut a deal with the Taliban should not be conceived as an effort to peel away moderates:
The people with whom any deal would have to be done, those Taliban prepared to contemplate accommodation, have [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Deal with the Taliban pragmatists &#8212; not the elusive &#8216;moderates&#8217;", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/02/05/deal-with-the-taliban-pragmatists-not-the-elusive-moderates/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;It&#8217;s better to join the Taliban; they pay more money.&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/02/03/its-better-to-join-the-taliban-they-pay-more-money/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2010/02/03/its-better-to-join-the-taliban-they-pay-more-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Editor's comments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
When President Obama announced his 30,000-strong troop surge in December he said: &#8220;these additional American and international troops will allow us to accelerate handing over responsibility to Afghan forces and allow us to begin the transfer of our forces out of Afghanistan in July of 2011.&#8221;
It was another example of what has become all too [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "&#8216;It&#8217;s better to join the Taliban; they pay more money.&#8217;", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/02/03/its-better-to-join-the-taliban-they-pay-more-money/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Taliban won&#8217;t be bought off</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/31/why-the-taliban-wont-be-bought-off/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/31/why-the-taliban-wont-be-bought-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=2888</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sun Tzu wrote:
It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Why the Taliban won&#8217;t be bought off", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/01/31/why-the-taliban-wont-be-bought-off/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>How the US sustains corruption in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/31/how-the-us-sustains-corruption-in-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=2887</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How the US sustains corruption in Afghanistan in order combat the insecurity caused by people enraged by the corruption.
The meeting in a muggy tent at Kandahar Airfield was dragging on when a lieutenant colonel with the Army Corps of Engineers broke in with an uncomfortable question.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure how to put this,&#8221; he told some [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How the US sustains corruption in Afghanistan", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/01/31/how-the-us-sustains-corruption-in-afghanistan/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Afghan president Hamid Karzai urges West to buy off the Taliban</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/24/afghan-president-hamid-karzai-urges-west-to-buy-off-the-taliban/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/24/afghan-president-hamid-karzai-urges-west-to-buy-off-the-taliban/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=2853</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Afghan president Hamid Karzai urges West to buy off the Taliban
By Christina Lamb and Miles Amoore, The Sunday Times, January 24, 2010
After giving up on winning victory in Afghanistan by military means, the international community is resorting to the centuries-old method of buying its way out.
In London this week, Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, will [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Afghan president Hamid Karzai urges West to buy off the Taliban", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/01/24/afghan-president-hamid-karzai-urges-west-to-buy-off-the-taliban/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Gates says Taliban must take legitimate Afghan role</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/22/gates-says-taliban-must-take-legitimate-afghan-role/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/22/gates-says-taliban-must-take-legitimate-afghan-role/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gates says Taliban must take legitimate Afghan role
By Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times, January 22, 2010
The United States recognizes that the Taliban are now part of the political fabric of Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here on Friday, but the group must be prepared to play a legitimate role before it can reconcile [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Gates says Taliban must take legitimate Afghan role", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/01/22/gates-says-taliban-must-take-legitimate-afghan-role/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Taliban overhaul image to win allies</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/21/taliban-overhaul-image-to-win-allies/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/21/taliban-overhaul-image-to-win-allies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taliban overhaul image to win allies
By Alissa J Rubin, New York Times, January 21, 2010
The Taliban have embarked on a sophisticated information war, using modern media tools as well as some old-fashioned ones, to soften their image and win favor with local Afghans as they try to counter the Americans’ new campaign to win Afghan [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Taliban overhaul image to win allies", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/01/21/taliban-overhaul-image-to-win-allies/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>New wave of warlords bedevils U.S.</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/20/new-wave-of-warlords-bedevils-us/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/20/new-wave-of-warlords-bedevils-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New wave of warlords bedevils U.S.
By Matthew Rosenberg, Wall Street Journal, January 18, 2010
In his teen years, Sirajuddin Haqqani was known among friends as a dandy. He cared more about the look of his thick black hair than the battles his father, a mujahideen warlord in the 1980s, was waging with Russia for control of [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "New wave of warlords bedevils U.S.", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/01/20/new-wave-of-warlords-bedevils-us/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Kabul attack shows resilience of Afghan militants</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/19/kabul-attack-shows-resilience-of-afghan-militants/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2010/01/19/kabul-attack-shows-resilience-of-afghan-militants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kabul attack shows resilience of Afghan militants
By Dexter Filkins, New York Times, January 19, 2010
A team of militants launched a spectacular assault at the heart of the Afghan government on Monday, with two men detonating suicide bombs and the rest fighting to the death only 50 yards from the gates of the presidential palace.
The attack [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Kabul attack shows resilience of Afghan militants", url: "http://warincontext.org/2010/01/19/kabul-attack-shows-resilience-of-afghan-militants/" });</script>]]></description>
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