Transnational Issues: Press

Panel Sees No Need for A-Bomb Upgrade | New York Times

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:48:00 -0500

Jeffrey G. Lewis, a nuclear specialist at the New America Foundation, a Washington research group, said in a blog posting that the report “should drive a ...

Obama's Iran Strategy Hits Great Wall of China

Erin Drankoski — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:32:00 -0500

"The Obama administration's Iran policy is in free fall and bordering on implosion," says Flynt Leverett, a fellow at the New America Foundation and a member of President George W. Bush's National Security Council. ... Original Article

The Price of Failure in Afghanistan | Reuters

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:12:00 -0500

Steve Coll, journalist and president of the New America Foundation, sets out four consequences of failure in Afghanistan in a blog in The New Yorker, ...

An Anxious Wait in Afghanistan | Asia Times Online

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:01:00 -0500

Noted terrorism analyst Peter Bergen stated at a New York-based think-tank conference dealing with counter-insurgency strategy in 2008 that it was very ...

This Isn't What We Hoped For | Indianapolis Star

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:57:00 -0500

But Mayer and the nonprofit New America Foundation report that more US drone strikes were launched in Pakistan during the first nine months of the Obama ...

War Unchecked | Washington Post

Cecille Isidro — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:54:00 -0500

... strikes in Pakistan this year and killed, besides Mr. Mehsud, somewhere between 200 and 300 people, according to a study by the New America Foundation. ...

Death Knell Drones for al Qa'eda | National (UAE)

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:08:00 -0500

The most authoritative assessment of the attacks, by the New America Foundation, estimates that about one third of more than 1000 people killed were ...

My Father, the Terrorist | Washington Post

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:07:00 -0500

In "The Bin Ladens," Steve Coll's history of the family, Najwa and Omar are minor characters. And so they would have remained but for the decision -- not ...

Afghan Lessons | United Press International

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:04:00 -0500

According to Afghan expert Steve Coll, from 1986 to 1992 the Soviets, through their politically adept Afghan strongman President Mohammad Najibullah, ...

Of Fruit Flies and Drones | New York Times

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:55:00 -0500

According to a just-completed study by the New America Foundation, quoted in Mayer's piece, Obama has authorized as many drone strikes in Pakistan in nine ...

Lugar Introduces Legislation to Extend START Verification Regime | Global Security Newswire

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:58:00 -0500

... telemetry," Jeffrey Lewis, head of the New America Foundation's Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative, said on his blog ArmsControlWonk.com. ...

Iran Boosts Output of Uranium Mine, Satellite Images Show | Global Security Newswire

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:06:00 -0500

... for a covert [uranium enrichment] program,” said Jeffrey Lewis, head of the New America Foundation's Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative. ...

Pakistan: Now or Never? | Reuters

Erin Drankoski — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:29:00 -0500

During his first nine and half months in office, President Barack Obama has authorised as many CIA aerial attacks in Pakistan as George W. Bush did in his final three years, according to a study done by the New America Foundation. So far this year, the administration has sanctioned at least 41 CIA missile strikes inside Pakistan -- a rate of approximately one bombing a week. ... Original Article

Iran Students Carry on Protests | Los Angeles Times

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:01:00 -0500

In a series of opinion pieces and public speeches, Hillary and Flynt Leverett, who have served as Middle East analysts for the CIA, National Security ...

Iran Pressed on Deal to Ship Nuclear Fuel Abroad | New York Times

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:57:00 -0500

Flynt Leverett, director of the Iran project at the New America Foundation and a professor of international affairs at Pennsylvania State University, ...

One Year of The One | The Economist

Erin Drankoski — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:24:00 -0500

... Yet roughly once a week since that day, he has ordered the assassination of suspected terrorists. These assassinations, carried out with Hellfire missiles fired from hovering drones, are often messy. According to the New America Foundation, a think-tank, it took 15 attempts to kill Baitullah Mehsud, a Taliban leader in Pakistan who was finally blown to scraps in August. Hundreds of people, some of them

Former US official: Resignation Over Afghan War is Drawing Support | CNN

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:35:00 -0400

CNN terrorism analyst Peter Bergen disagreed with Hoh's assessment of Afghanistan. "It's not that our presence there is causing the problem," he said. ...

The Vietnam Moment | Financial Times

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:52:00 -0400

“My guess is that he'll announce something north of 20000 troops and hope that is enough,” says Peter Bergen, an expert on al-Qaeda, who is urging a ...

Hillary Clinton Wraps Up Tough Mission in Pakistan | The Guardian (London)

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:37:00 -0400

But one recent study by the New America Foundation estimated that US drones have killed between 750 around 1000 people in Pakistan since 2006, ...

Al-Qaida Connection: Foreign Passports Linked to Attacks on West Recovered | The Guardian (London)

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:39:00 -0400

Militancy expert Peter Bergen of the New American Foundation said the fact that the passports were found in Taliban compounds showed how the two ...