counterterrorism

Surprise!

by Matthew Kuhl

So, Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of Hamid Karzai and suspected drug lord, may also be a good friend of the CIA. I was shocked, shocked, I tell you, to learn this. I can’t really say why, but perhaps it’s the Agency’s history of backing the thug who gets our stuff done (Guatemala, Iran, Cuba, Indochina, [...]

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Let’s Think About Mehsud

by Joshua Foust
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Okay, he’s almost certainly dead. So will this matter all that much? When Baitullah Mehsud’s predecessor, Nek Mohammed, died in a drone strike in 2004, American policymakers thought they were onto something—targeted assassinations surely would blunt the power of the Islamists in Pakistan, right? Mehsud turned out to be a much more fearsome opponent than [...]

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