25/09/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Endgame in Afghanistan: How Do We End the Proxy Wars?
When top U.S. military officer Adm. Mike Mullen described the Haqqani Network as a "a veritable arm of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence [spy] agency," to the U.S. Senate on Thursday you could almost hear the ‘I told you so' chorus echoing all the way from Afghanistan. Mullen accused the ISI of fighting a proxy war in Afghanistan, and said that the Pakistani equivalent of the CIA had directly contributed to a series of attacks on U.S. and other targets over the past few years.
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02/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Bin Laden's Death: What This Means for Pakistan's ISI
When U.S. President Obama called Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to tell him the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed by U.S. citizens in a lightening raid not far from the Pakistani capital last night, he also instructed his team to similarly inform their Pakistani counterparts. The question is, who was surprised when they picked up the phone?.
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02/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Bin Laden's Death: What This Means for Pakistan's ISI
When U.S. President Obama called Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to tell him the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed by U.S. citizens in a lightening raid not far from the Pakistani capital last night, he also instructed his team to similarly inform their Pakistani counterparts. The question is, who was surprised when they picked up the phone?.
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13/03/2011 | Frente Externo
The Embattled Billionaire in Lebanon's Latest Storm
Najib Mikati likes to think of himself as a one-man rescue mission. Lebanon's richest tycoon, worth an estimated $2.5 billion, he presides over an eclectic empire that spans French fashion brand Façonnable, Swiss airline Flyaboo and a major share in Telecom giant MTN — shrewd acquisitions that have earned him a steady presence on the Forbes list. On Jan. 25th, he added one more troubled asset to his portfolio: the small and fractious nation of Lebanon, whose parliament just nominated him Prime Minister.
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02/07/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Pakistan: Negligent on Terror?
It's almost like a bad joke. A bus driver, a ski lift operator and a gym rat have turned the Islamic world's only nuclear-armed nation upside down. On Saturday Pakistani forces chased militants led by former bus driver Mangal Bagh from the fringes of Peshawar, a provincial capital 30 miles from the border with Afghanistan and a key transit point for vital supplies destined for U.S. and NATO forces fighting the Afghan insurgency.
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02/07/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Pakistan: Negligent on Terror?
It's almost like a bad joke. A bus driver, a ski lift operator and a gym rat have turned the Islamic world's only nuclear-armed nation upside down. On Saturday Pakistani forces chased militants led by former bus driver Mangal Bagh from the fringes of Peshawar, a provincial capital 30 miles from the border with Afghanistan and a key transit point for vital supplies destined for U.S. and NATO forces fighting the Afghan insurgency.
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