Posts tagged with 'Al_Qaeda'

Who will win Pakistan?

POSTED BY KRISTIN LINDER, JANUARY 07 2008 08:43 AM | PERMALINK

Pakistan has been volatile since the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, and parties on all sides of the conflict are debating the best course of action. Al Qaeda is reportedly flooding the disrupted country, hoping to influence the elections set for February 18 by recruiting new extremists and threatening voters.

In response to the growing confusion in Pakistan and the increasing Al Qaeda threat, there are reports the US is considering a new cover operations push to stabilize the country.

But...
TPMtv: A Chat with Dr. Barnett Rubin, Part II

POSTED BY BEN CRAW, OCTOBER 03 2007 09:00 AM | PERMALINK

A Chat with Dr. Barnett Rubin, Part II

How are things going in Afghanistan? Have we botched things so badly that the Taliban are about to take over again? And since al Qaeda, the Taliban and nuclear weapons are all in Pakistan, what happens if Pervez Musharraf falls from power? We asked each of those questions to renowned Afghanistan expert Dr. Barnett Rubin in today's episode of TPMtv.
- Part I of our interview with Dr. Barnett Rubin
Al Qaeda Al Qaeda

POSTED BY MARC BOXSER, SEPTEMBER 17 2007 07:34 PM | PERMALINK

Among his less than impressive comments on Meet The Press on Sunday John McCain seemed dangerously close to repeating the old chant of "al Qaeda al Qaeda" in Iraq. He suggests that the Malaki govt. will form some kind of alliance with al Qaeda if the US leave- this seems an far fetched idea: that the Shi'ite SCIRI representative, and his party would consider an alliance with the Sunni extremist al Qaeda elements who have been seeking to start an ethnic war in Iraq for 4 years. In fact it seems...
TPMtv: John McCain vs. The Video Tape

POSTED BY BEN CRAW, SEPTEMBER 17 2007 12:50 PM | PERMALINK

John McCain vs. The Video Tape

2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain (R-AZ) went on Meet the Press Sunday to debate the war in Iraq with Senator John Kerry (D-MA). And what a show it was. With McCain's deluge of devastating points and dizzying rhetorical takedowns, Kerry was clearly no match. But the real contest was the debate between McCain and videographic evidence of statements made previously in the week. We match the two toe-to-toe, and let the viewer decide the ultimate debate...
TPMtv: A Chat with Afghan Ambassador Jawad, Part I

POSTED BY , JULY 18 2007 01:57 PM | PERMALINK

A Chat with Afghan Ambassador Jawad, Part I

TPM reporter Spencer Ackerman recently sat down to talk to Said Jawad, the Afghan Ambassador to the United States. In Part 1 of TPM's interview with Ambassador Jawad, we discuss the current state of Afghanistan, the influence of Al Qaeda, and what the international community can do to prevent the country from devolving into a failed state.
TPMtv: The New Al Qaeda Bamboozle

POSTED BY , JULY 17 2007 01:36 PM | PERMALINK

The New Al Qaeda Bamboozle

The Bush administration has really been pushing the Al Qaeda in Iraq line recently, constantly citing 9/11 in reference to the enemy that we face in Iraq, an enemy that essentially all military and intelligence experts agree is far more complicated and heterogenous a force than simply Al Qaeda. Will the media start drawing the distinction?