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17 November SWJ Roundup
small wars journal readers are no scruple familiar with the debate between john nagl and gian gentile approximately the kinds of threats the us will face in the period ahead and how us ground forces should prepare someone is concerned those threats. i press concluded that both men are right; their arguments are not mutually exclusive. but if both men are right, how should the us organize, cortege, and employ its ground forces?
–Robert Haddick, Small Wars Journal
afghanistan / pakistan tribal areas karzai offers legislation to taliban principal benefit of talks - john burns, imaginative york times afghanistan’s president, hamid karzai, said sunday that he would guarantee the safety of the taliban boss mullah mohammad omar if mr. omar agreed to get through for a peaceful outpost of the worsening be incompatible in the country. mr. omar, a fugitive with a $10 million american bounty on his intellect, has been in hiding since the taliban were toppled from power in 2001, and is believed by western intelligence agencies to be living somewhere in the region of quetta in western pakistan. at a news conference in kabul, the afghan major, mr. karzai coupled his advance of safe passage to mr. omar with a warning to the western nations that support his government, saying that if they opposed an assurance of safety for mr. omar they would have to erase mr. karzai as president or withdraw their troops from afghanistan. bush administration officials on sunday were skeptical of the proposal, although they did not eliminate it there. more at the new york times, washington advise, medium of america, bbc info and diurnal telegraph. afghan taliban prepare response to karzai safety pledge - reuters afghanistan’s taliban insurgents said on monday they were drawing up a comeback to an offer from president hamid karzai of strongbox passage allowing for regarding insurgent leaders who wanted to talk placidity. karzai, back from a trip to britain and the agreed states, said on sunday he would guarantee the safety of taliban bossman mullah mohammad omar if he was prepared to negotiate. with the taliban insurgency intensifying seven years after the hardline islamists were forced from power, the possibility of talks with more moderate taliban leaders is increasingly being considered, both in afghanistan and among its allies. the taliban have ruled out any talks in the past as long as foreign troops remain in afghanistan, but karzai said on sunday that condition was wrong. more at reuters. pakistan shuts nato up line - bruce loudon, the australian pakistan nick open the strength nato gear up route into afghanistan yesterday, citing taliban and al-qa’ida attacks on the khyber pass, the perilous mountain trail that carries most supplies into the war-torn mother country for the benefit of the 35,000-high-handed coalition soldiers. taliban fighters have been demanding to strangle nato’s mission in afghanistan by stepping up attacks on convoys in the khyber pass, and yesterday forced pakistan to suspend all traffic along the route. more than 350 trucks and fuel tankers use the pass each day, carrying nato supplies that have been shipped to the pakistani seaport city of karachi. but sway officials in islamabad said last night the suspension of the important homeland convey had become inevitable because of intensified combating bustle in the khyber tribal agency. any elongated-term closure of the road would make the problem of resupplying coalition troops in afghanistan very difficult. more at the australian, washington post and associated press.
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