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		<title>The Taliban and Qatar</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2012/01/04/the-taliban-and-qatar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After months of negotiations it has been announced that the Taliban will open a representative office in Qatar. Initially, Afghan President Karzai rejected Qatar as the location of the office and even removed the Afghan Ambassador from Qatar, accusing the Doha Government of not consulting the Afghan Government on the matter. Yet at the end [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5939&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fake Taliban negotiator fools NATO</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/11/23/fake-taliban-negotiator-fools-nato/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Central Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan Taliban peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NATO forces fake negotiator]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much has been made recently of the NATO negotiations with the Taliban in Afghanistan. Progress was reported on numerous occasions in &#8216;talks&#8217; with Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, the second highest official in the Taliban movement. The problem is that the man with whom they were negotiating was not actually who he said he was. Seems [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=4807&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bush &amp; Obama&#8217;s drone attacks map</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/11/10/bush-obamas-drone-attacks-map/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/11/10/bush-obamas-drone-attacks-map/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[American ME Relations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This excellent picture/map is taken from the Atlantic.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=4704&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan floods satellite image comparison</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/08/18/pakistan-floods-satellite-image-comparison/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These pictures were taken on the 10th August 2009 and 11th of August. 2010. They show, better than anything I&#8217;ve seen yet, the veritable  explosion of the River Indus. Don&#8217;t forget that these are satellite images and the scale is enormous: these pictures show essentially all of Pakistan. (NB. Just to be clear, the turquoise [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=3803&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CIA attempt to persuade Europeans to maintain forces in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/03/29/cia-attempt-to-persuade-europeans-to-maintain-forces-in-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/03/29/cia-attempt-to-persuade-europeans-to-maintain-forces-in-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikileaks has obtained a classified &#8216;not for foreigners&#8217; CIA memo discussing strategies to shore up European support for ISAF forces in Afghanistan. In the wake of the Dutch Government&#8217;s demise over troop questions, the report states that there is a similarly grim outlook in France and Germany. In France the report suggests focusing on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=2541&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Al Qaeda&#8217;s caves</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/03/03/al-qaedas-caves/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/03/03/al-qaedas-caves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what an Al Qaeda-ish cave looks like. Not this. Rumsfeld was such a spectacular liar.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=2386&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intercontinental Hotel Kabul</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/01/15/intercontinental-hotel-kabul/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/01/15/intercontinental-hotel-kabul/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adam Curtis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Intercontinental was perched above the city with wonderful views. It was where the western businesspeople, the diplomats and the rich tourists all stayed. But it also quickly became the place for the Kabul elite to go &#8211; for tea, for parties, and for weddings. They were the modern people of Kabul who were helping [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=2105&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US aid to Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/01/11/us-aid-to-yemen-iraq-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/01/11/us-aid-to-yemen-iraq-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By 2008, nonmilitary [US] aid to Yemen had dwindled to less than $20 million. Afghanistan is expected to receive $2.7 billion a year in nonmilitary aid, Pakistan $1.5 billion and Iraq $500 million. The administration doubled Yemen’s economic aid last year, but as Barbara K. Bodine, another former ambassador, pointed out, the amount “works out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=2052&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rory Stewart on efforts to counter the Taliban</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/01/02/rory-stewart-on-efforts-to-counter-the-taliban/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/01/02/rory-stewart-on-efforts-to-counter-the-taliban/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ever-erudite and persuasive Rory Stewart has written an excellent essay on Obama, the US and their strategies to counter the Taliban. It&#8217;s well worth the read.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=1987&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with a suicide bomber</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/12/08/interview-with-a-suicide-bomber/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2009/12/08/interview-with-a-suicide-bomber/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
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