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Hunt for havens

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:48:28 GMT

Wednesday, December 09, 2009 Washington is clearly eager to keep the focus on the war against terror in Pakistan, and not to be diverted from this target by other happenings in the country.
Source: The News

Karadzic renews UN appeal

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:28:15 GMT

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has made a renewed appeal to the UN Security Council to accept that he made a deal that should assure him immunity from a war crimes trial.
Source: Irish Times

Karadzic persists with calls to U.N. on immunity

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:50:14 GMT

* Karadzic wants Security Council to accept his "immunity" * Says had deal with U.S. envoy; Holbrooke denies it * Attempt to challenge court's legitimacy failed on Monday THE HAGUE, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has...
Source: Reuters Alert Net

A man of the past

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:28:40 GMT

When Matthew P. Hoh, a top US civilian official in Afghanistan who had also had a distinguished military career earlier, handed in his resignation at the end of October, his boss at the State Department in Washington, a man two generations older,...
Source: Dawn

An Enduring Commitment

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:03:26 GMT

On behalf of Richard Holbrooke and his team from ten USG agencies and outside experts housed in the State Department, thank you for this opportunity to discuss the civilian aspects of our strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, for which our team is...
Source: US State Dept. - Travel Bureau

Ambassador Richard Holbrooke on the new EU Foreign Minister: Catherine Who?

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:09:21 GMT

While EU elites have been worryingly obsessed with Brussels’ internal reorganization for the past eight years, Washington and London have been leading the bloody campaign against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Source: The Heritage Foundation

Jaxhawk: WINNING IS THE ONLY OPTION

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:16:07 GMT

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything.
Source: Town Hall

Quoted in 'US to launch new bid to hunt down Osama bin Laden!'

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:25:46 GMT

Richard Holbrooke said in Zee News:

That's one of the main issues that we have been talking to our friends in Pakistan about.

'Dismantling Taliban, Al-Qaeda sanctuaries in Pak crucial to US Af-Pak mission'

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:17:44 GMT

US Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke has said that the most important aspect of the new approach is to dismantle the terror sanctuary in Pakistan. "I have to say that corruption is critical to our success, but it''s not the governing issue in this war.
Source: New Kerala

Quoted in 'FACTBOX-Quotes from U.S. lawmakers on Obama's Afghan policy'

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:49:32 GMT

said in Reuters Alert Net:

To me ... it was anything but a more narrowed mission ... The metrics very much lay out a nation building in Afghanistan. (U.S. special envoy) Richard Holbrooke has got a whole team of people, he would call it rebuilding a nation.

Photo from Getty Images

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:14:26 GMT

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - NOVEMBER 18: U.S. General Stanley McChrystal (L), head of the U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, arrives at the Kabul International airport before the arrival of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on November 18, 2009 in Kabul,...

Photo from Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:56:35 GMT

US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke (L) speaks with France's Foreign Affairs Minister Bernard Kouchner, during a press conference on September 2, 2009 in Paris.

Ron Paul questions Richard Holbrooke during Foreign Affairs hearing 05/05/2009

Wed, 06 May 2009 17:55:57 GMT