Tageszeitung, 1 October 2014 Guest article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the signing of the Afghan BSA with the US and the SoFA with NATO (in German, print only).
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Daily Telegraph, 30 September 2014 AAN’s Kate Clark quoted here on the financial repercussions of the BSA signing: “It’s not the American soldiers, but the money in the pockets of the army and police, that’s the critical thing. If you’re trying to fight an insurgency with soldiers and police who are not getting paid, then […]
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Haló (Czech Rep.), 30 September 2014 A quote from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, on the future role of ex-president Karzai (apparently from an older AAN dispatch): Thomas Ruttig, spoluředitel nezávislé výzkumné organizace Afghanistan Analysts Network v Kábulu, upozorňuje, že Karzáí si dobře připravil půdu, aby zůstal v politické hře. »Úspěšně spolupracoval se všemi hlavními prezidentskými kandidáty a […]
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al-Jazeera US, 30 September 2014 A brief quote of AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the future NATO training mission in Afghanistan: “’If the Afghan government and Afghans want this, this is good,’ said Thomas Ruttig, a co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network. ‘They need training, not such in how to fight but on the rules that […]
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Los Angeles Daily News, 29 September 2014 In an article about some Afghan army officers defecting during a training stay in the US, the author builds the link to the current Afghan situation and the elections, quoting AAN’s Kate Clark: “In the end, the deal to form a successor administration to Karzai’s was done behind […]
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AP, 29 September 2014 Listen to AAN’s Kate Clark on the AP’s “Here & Now” news programme (7:22 min).
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Frankfurter Rundschau, 29 September 2014 Op-ed commentary by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the Afghan election result (what it means for Afghan democracy), resulting in the conclusion that, with the competing camps of Ghani an Abdullah joining hands in the ‘government of national unity’, the political opposition now also officially joins the government, leaving not much […]
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Neues Deutschland, 27 September 2014 In this guest article for the Berlin-based daily, Thomas Ruttig looks at the agreement on the government of national unity and the election outcome. With figures indicating that fraud detected in the audit has not turned the election outcome in Abdullah’s favour and his camp taking over the new positions […]
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BBC, 24 September 2014 Lyse Doucet, the BBC’s chief international correspondent, quotes AAN’s Kate Clark in her analysis of the Afghan election outcome, the apprehension it created and the personnel – much of it with a well-known past – involved in it: “At best, they will now work as partners with a common goal.” observes […]
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Washington Post, 24 September 2014 Stating that “there are still questions over whether Afghanistan’s new government will remain unified, following a contentious elecion process that threatened a major political crisis”, Dan Lamothe in the Post’s Checkpoint blog on military affairs (here in the BSA context) quotes from AAN’s dispatch about the Ghani-Abdullah power sharing agreement: […]
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AFP, 22 September 2014 The news agency quotes from an AAN dispatch: “‘We do not know if a government of national unity was merited by what happened at the polls,’ analyst Kate Clark said in a briefing paper on Monday for the Afghan Analysts Network. ‘This political transition… cannot be called democratic, as it actually […]
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Voice of America, 23 September 2014 Extensive quotes of AAN’s Kate Clark in this article after Ashraf Ghani was named new Afghan president: Kate Clark of Afghanistan Analysts Network is a long-term observer of the Afghan affairs. She is skeptical about Ghani’s claims the deal will ensure an effective governance and restore lasting peace to […]
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