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The US would like Germany to deploy more troops to Afghanistan, according to senior US diplomat Richard Holbrooke, speaking to German newspapers on Wednesday. Full Article at Deutsche Welle
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Germany already has over 4,000 troops in Afghanistan. The US would like to see even more. With the US now sending 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, the pressure is growing on Washington's NATO allies to send more too. Full Article at Spiegel Online
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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. Full Article at The News
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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. Full Article at Irish Times
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* 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... Full Article at Reuters Alert Net
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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,... Full Article at Dawn
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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... Full Article at US State Dept. - Travel Bureau
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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. Full Article at The Heritage Foundation
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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. Full Article at Town Hall
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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. Full Article at New Kerala
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WASHINGTON: The United States said Sunday it was pressing Pakistan to move against Taliban and Al-Qaeda sanctuaries in its territory, saying success in Afghanistan depended on disrupting the cross-border safe havens. Full Article at Channel News Asia
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The United States says it is pressing Pakistan to move against Taliban and al-Qaeda sanctuaries in its territory, saying success in Afghanistan depends on disrupting the cross-border safe havens. Full Article at Sydney Morning Herald
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The U.S. envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, says that corruption in Afghanistan is a "malignancy that that can destroy the body that it's hosted in." Full Article at The Politico
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Fareed Zakaria – GPS: Afghanistan: Richard Holbrooke, President Obama’s Special Representative to the region, and Thomas Friedman. Plus, Mohammed El Baradei — who just left his post as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Newsmakers: Sen. Full Article at Firedoglake
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Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. Anjum Naveed / AP Photo Obama’s Afghan plan left Afghans and Pakistanis with more questions than answers. Full Article at The Daily Beast
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CNN "GPS" with Fareed Zakaria: Richard Holbrooke, special presidential representative to Afghanistan-Pakistan region. -- Andrew Malcolm ABC "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos: Secy. of State Hillary Clinton, Secy. of Defense Robert Gates, Sen. Full Article at Los Angeles Times
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WASHINGTON: US special representative to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke has said no country has been taken under confidence more than Pakistan. Full Article at The News
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Obama envoy in Afghanistan derides as 'bullshit' a Guardian report that he wants install a 'high representative' in Kabul Richard Holbrooke, the US special representative for Afghanistan. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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When President Barack Obama announced his appointment of Richard Holbrooke and George Mitchell to be his special envoys to two of the world’s most challenging trouble spots at a formal ceremony with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last January, it... Full Article at The Politico
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BRUSSELS — NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Friday the allies will prevail in their bid to stabilize Afghanistan but only if they answer President Barack Obama's call for more allied troops on the ground. Full Article at Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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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, Afghanistan.
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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.
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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, center, speaks during a press conference with the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, left, and the top U.N. official in Afghanistan, Kai Eide, in Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009.
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Richard Holbrooke (L), the U.S. special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, shakes hands with United Arab Emirates' Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan during the Friends of Democratic Pakistan Group (FoDP) ministerial meeting in Istanbul August 25, 2009.
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Visiting U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke, right, walks with Ishrat Ul-Ebad Khan , governor of Pakistan's Sindh province in Karachi, Pakistan on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. Holbrooke is in Pakistan to meet Pakistani officials to discuss the bilateral issues.
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WASHINGTON - AUGUST 12: Richard Holbrooke (L) U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan at the State Department, participates in a discussion on August 12, 2009 in Washington, DC. Mr. Holbrooke and Mr. Podesta discussed the current U.S. policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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WASHINGTON - AUGUST 12: Richard Holbrooke (L) U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan at the State Department, and John Podesta (R) CEO, Center for American Progress, participate in a discussion on August 12, 2009 in Washington, DC.
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That's one of the main issues that we have been talking to our friends in Pakistan about.
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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.
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It is an unfortunate but unavoidable fact that those military offensives... were directed against the Taliban that were are focused on Pakistan, not the Taliban who are focused on Afghanistan
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Richard Holbrooke is not a farm boy, but he became sensitized to food issues when he was an adviser in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War
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moving to the frontburner. There’s an open door for any people fighting with the Taliban to renounce al-Qaida, lay down their arms and are processed peacefully ... But let me be clear, this takes a little time. It has to be Afghan-led and it requires resources.
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Richard Holbrooke also informed the Russian side of the basic elements of a renewed US Afghan policy now being developed by the Administration of Barack Obama
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There’s an open door for any people fighting with the Taliban to renounce Al Qaeda, lay down their arms
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When I met President Zardari in September in New York, he told me [U S Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan] Richard Holbrooke's mandate is Kashmir although it is not very much open. He is coming to Delhi and Islamabad not to talk about Afghanistan but Kashmir
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I understand that the war is unpopular ... It's a long way off and there's the legacy of Iraq and Vietnam.
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I know how challenging they are, and I have some of the best people in the U.S. – George Mitchell and Richard Holbrooke -- working on these complicated matters ... What we are doing is very carefully and consistently rebuilding those bonds, creating those partnerships, finding common ground so we and ou...
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We have been very gratified by the strong support of our European allies for President Obama's policy
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There are every week high-level meetings here at the State Department and at the White House, as the president and his national security team review how to best implement the strategy and Richard Holbrooke is in every one of these meetings
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We have a unified military command but we have an 'ununified' international effort that involves the United Nations, individual countries, hundreds and hundreds, maybe thousands, of NGOs (non-governmental organisations) and other international institutions
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Like many, we wonder what happened to Mr Obama's special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, who established a bureaucratic fiefdom at the State Department but has been neither seen nor heard from during this critical period
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As the secretary said, we are encouraged by what we saw during this trip ... Secretary Clinton described the moment that we saw a few days ago as a window of opportunity.
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Dr Radovan Karadzic ... has requested the United Nations Security Council to enact a resolution which honours the agreement made on its behalf by Richard Holbrooke
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When we came into office, there were about 300 American civilians in all of Afghanistan, and most of them were on six-month tours and they had very substantial leave arrangements to go to Dubai or Abu Dhabi or somewhere else regularly. And there was no continuity
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Richard Holbrooke, the administration's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, should have seen this one coming
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We seek to improve our relations with Pakistan. We seek to improve our relations with China. We seek to improve our relations with India. This is not a zero-sum game.
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Working closely with Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, Treasury is deeply involved in the effort to deny financial support to Taliban, al Qaida, the Haqqani network, LeT and other terrorist groups active in that region
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We seek to improve our relations with Pakistan. We seek to improve our relations with China. We seek to improve our relations with India. This is not a zero-sum game.
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FRONTLINE producer Martin Smith travels across Afghanistan and Pakistan to report on this war's many fronts and interviews top U.S. commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Amb. Richard Holbrooke, special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan; and Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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We seek to improve our relations with Pakistan. We seek to improve our relations with China. We seek to improve our relations with India. This is not a zero-sum game.
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Afghanistan is now so dangerous ... that many aid workers cannot travel outside the capital, Kabul, to advise farmers on crops.... [Still,]Richard Holbrooke, the administration’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, said in a telephone interview last week that 50 to 65 civilian agricultu...
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No one in Pakistan, and no one in any other country, should read this in any way as a diminution of the importance we attach to them
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