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Turn Taliban and Al Qaida against each other

PAPER: Seven Years after 9/11: Al-Qaida’s Strengths and Vulnerabilities (pdf), By Richard Barrett, Future Actions Series, September 2008

Analysis of an expected aspect of US counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan: divide and neutralize.

(Thanks: Mark Safranski)

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But will Afghans see it as 'divide and co-opt' and their leaders feel the need to say and do things against US to show their people it ain't so?

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