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September 10
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Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by Time Magazine, "U.S. Stepping Up Operations in Pakistan."
You could call it an election gift for Pakistan's new president. Or a threat. Just a day before Asif Ali Zardari swore, during his inauguration ceremony, to protect his country's sovereignty, a U.S. Predator drone fired five missiles at a suspected militant compound near the border with Afghanistan. The compound belonged to Jalaluddin Haqqani, one of the most notorious Afghan Taliban commanders based in Pakistan, and a Soviet-era ally of the CIA. The Predator strike missed Haqqani, but it did kill four mid-level Qaeda operatives, government and militant sources told the Associated Press. It also killed some eight children, one of Haqqani's wives and a sister-in-law. [. . .]"The U.S. should make it openly clear that [it] cannot wait for Pakistan to [take decisive action], and will have to treat Pakistani territory as a combat zone if Pakistan does not act," wrote military scholar Anthony Cordesman of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies last month. "Pakistan cannot both claim sovereignty and allow hostile non-state actors to attack Afghanistan, [and] U.S. and NATO/ISAF forces [there] from its soil." Read More
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September 7
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Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by Agence France Press, "Seven Years after 9/11, Al-Qaeda Leaders Plot On in Safe Havens."
Seven years after the deadliest attack on the United States, Al-Qaeda's masterminds remain beyond US reach, stirring violence and plotting new attacks on the West, officials and analysts say. [. . .] "Today, if violent extremism and terrorism have a center, it is Pakistan and not Iraq," said Anthony Cordesman, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Read More
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April 8
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Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by NPR.org, "Petraeus, Crocker Warn Iraq Progress is Reversible."
Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, told a Senate panel on Tuesday that American and Iraqi forces had made great strides toward the goal of bringing security to the country, but called for an open-ended suspension of troop withdrawals that he said could jeopardize progress. Speaking to the Senate Armed Service Committee, the Iraq war commander told lawmakers that there had been "significant but uneven security progress" in Iraq since the so-called surge strategy put 30,000 more soldiers on the ground in Iraq. Read More
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