... and its allies need more troops to establish basic security in Afghanistan, said Peter Bergen, senior research fellow at the New America Foundation. ...
In "Revenge of the Drones," The New America Foundation's Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann tallied reports on how many civilians have been killed in ...
Peter Bergen, writing for the New Republic, in his article, "The Front: The Taliban-Al Qaeda merger," details extensive connections between the two groups ...
The number could be as high as 320 innocents, according to an analysis released today by the New America Foundation. That's about a third of the 1000 or so ...
On July 25, Najibullah Zazi, a lanky man in his mid-twenties,
walked into the Beauty Supply Warehouse in Aurora, Colorado, a suburb
of Denver. The visit was captured on a store video camera. Wearing a
baseball cap and pushing a shopping cart, Zazi appeared to be just
another suburban guy.
As a result of the unprecedented 41 drone strikes into
Pakistan authorized by the Obama administration, aimed at Taliban and al Qaeda
networks based there, about a half-dozen leaders of militant organizations have
been killed--including two heads of Uzbek terrorist groups allied with al
Qaeda, and Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban--in addition
to hundreds of lower-level militants and civilians, according to our analysis.[1]
According
to a just completed study by the New America Foundation, the number of drone
strikes has risen dramatically since Obama became president. During his first
nine and a half months in office, he has authorized as many CIA aerial attacks
in Pakistan
as George W. Bush did in his final three years in office. The study's authors,
Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann, report that the Obama administration has
sanctioned at least forty-one CIA missile strikes in Pakistan since taking office -- a
Support for this view came from CNN's Peter Bergen, who reported on Thursday that there has been a fundamental shift in popular opinion in the country. ...
But Peter Bergen, a terrorism expert at New America Foundation, says that "if US forces were not in Afghanistan," the Taliban would return to Kabul "within ...
