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Elvis bin Laden

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

The "Veterans Today" Network, a one-man show on the Internet created and run by Gordon Duff, a 100 percent disabled Marine Vietnam veteran, states flatly that 9/11 was a CIA/Mossad conspiracy and that Osama bin Laden wasn’t involved and died in 2001. This can easily be dismissed as yet another example of deliberately disseminated disinformation […]

Afghanistan Leaks Reignite Debate, Undermine Security

By James Joyner

The early consensus, thankfully, is that the leak of 92,000-odd classified intelligence documents contain little information of note to close observers.   As Tufts professor Daniel Drezner snarks, "So it turns out that the war in Afghanistan is not going well and Pakistan is playing a double game?  Well, knock me down with a feather!!" […]

Khakis over civvies: Posturing in Pakistan and India

By Barkha Dutt

India and the Afghanistan Conflict

By Sarwar Kashmeri

Naresh Chandra, former ambassador to the United States from India, speaks with Atlantic Council senior fellow Sarwar Kashmeri in the latest installment of the New Atlanticist Podcast Series. While Pakistan’s role in the Afghanistan conflict is well known, India’s interests there are less often discussed.

NATO’s Future Involves More Global Partnerships

By Ian Brzezinski

Ian Brzezinski, resident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s International Security program, was recently interviewed about NATO’s current and future roles in global affairs.

India’s Patience Running Thin

By Mohan Guruswamy

What happened at the post-meeting press conference of the Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers in Islamabad last week seemed to have come as a bit of a surprise to most observers here. On the other hand if recent events were objectively analysed what happened had to happen. Recent gains made by Pakistan despite its "running […]

Kayani and Pakistan’s Civil-Military Relations

By Shuja Nawaz

In a timely though perhaps overly dramatic move, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani of Pakistan announced last night on national television the extension of army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani for another three years beyond November this year, when his first term was to end. Timely, since any further delay in announcing it would have […]

Euro Banks Pass Stress Tests But Investors Still Stressed

By James Joyner

After months of living up to their name, the four-month-long European bank stress tests yielded extraordinarily good news: 84 of 91 lenders passed the examination.  But not everyone is convinced that the tests were sufficiently rigorous to allay investor fears. Dow Jones reports, Europe’s largest listed banks by assets, including the U.K.’s Royal Bank of […]

The Peace Chimera: India and Pakistan

By Cyril Almeida

The India-Pakistan relationship has been fraught. But there are signs of a thaw emerging in what had been a frozen relationship ever since former President Pervez Musharraf’s back channel diplomacy faltered in 2007 as his political power began to wane. As a result, it took a major effort by both sides to reopen the dialogue. […]

Satellite Saga

By David Smith

The Paris Court of Commerce last week handed a victory to the Russian propaganda machine, allowing French satellite operator Eutelsat—one quarter French Government-owned—to bar Tbilisi-based First Caucasus Television from one of its broadcast satellites.  For now, this prevents First Caucasus from reaching most of its intended Russian-speaking audience.  Nonetheless, the station is determined to get […]