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Intel Assessment Differs from Pentagon on Afghan War

HeadlineDec 16, 2010

President Obama is set to unveil a new strategy review of the Afghanistan war today. The review is expected to claim progress in U.S. war aims and endorse Obama’s call for beginning to withdraw U.S. troops next year until a final handover in 2014. But the findings sharply differ from the most recent National Intelligence Estimates on Afghanistan and Pakistan. According to the New York Times, the nation’s intelligence agencies have concluded the United States cannot achieve its goals in Afghanistan unless Pakistan wipes out militants on its side of the border and ends covert support for the Afghan Taliban. The estimates represent the consensus view of 16 U.S. intelligence agencies.

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