<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>StratPost &#187; Al Qaeda</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.stratpost.com/tag/al-qaeda/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.stratpost.com</link>
	<description>South Asian Defense &#38; Strategic Affairs</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:55:43 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator>
		<item>
		<title>When a Pakistani officer&#8217;s posting fuelled coup rumor</title>
		<link>http://www.stratpost.com/when-a-pakistani-officers-posting-fuelled-coup-rumor</link>
		<comments>http://www.stratpost.com/when-a-pakistani-officers-posting-fuelled-coup-rumor#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Indo-Asian News Service</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[111 Brigade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[army chief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brigade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brigadier Javed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brigadier Sarfraz Ali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[command]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coup d'etat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[division commander]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Headquarters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Pervez Musharraf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inter Services Public Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISI chief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamabad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lahore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lieutenant General Shuja Pasha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Major General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military take over]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naeem Khalid Lodhi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan Army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Asif Ali Zardari]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rawalpindi Corps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retired lieutenant general]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The News International]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stratpost.com/?p=5343</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The news of Brigadier Sarfraz Ali assuming command of the 111 Brigade came amid a showdown between the political leadership and the powerful military. The 111 Brigade is has been frequently involved in military coup d'etats, <em>The News International</em> reported.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.stratpost.com/when-a-pakistani-officers-posting-fuelled-coup-rumor/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Safe havens in Pakistan biggest challenge in Afghan war: Mullen</title>
		<link>http://www.stratpost.com/safe-havens-in-pakistan-biggest-challenge-in-afghan-war-mullen</link>
		<comments>http://www.stratpost.com/safe-havens-in-pakistan-biggest-challenge-in-afghan-war-mullen#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Indo-Asian News Service</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Admiral Michael Mullen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arun Kumar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haqqani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hina Rabbani Khar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inter Services Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stratpost.com/?p=4853</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["We're losing Afghan civilians, Afghan soldiers, and we're losing American soldiers because of the Haqqani network. And the link between the Pakistan military and specifically the ISI, their intelligence agency, is very well-known. And I have argued for the need to sever this link," Mullen said.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.stratpost.com/safe-havens-in-pakistan-biggest-challenge-in-afghan-war-mullen/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Pakistan wants stronger ties with Saudi Arabia: Zardari</title>
		<link>http://www.stratpost.com/pakistan-wants-stronger-ties-with-saudi-arabia-zardari</link>
		<comments>http://www.stratpost.com/pakistan-wants-stronger-ties-with-saudi-arabia-zardari#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Indo-Asian News Service</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abbottabad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Admiral Mike Mullen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Associated Press of Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farhatullah Babar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haqqani Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inter Services Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamabad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joint Chiefs of Staff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Panetta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lieutenant General Shuja Pasha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Asif Ali Zardari]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Secretary of Defense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stratpost.com/?p=4750</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Asif Ali Zardari said that Pakistan valued its close bilateral ties with Saudi Arabia as ISI chief Lieutenant General Shuja Pasha left for that country Monday amid strained ties between Islamabad and Washington.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.stratpost.com/pakistan-wants-stronger-ties-with-saudi-arabia-zardari/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Pakistan has been an unreliable ally of US: Biden</title>
		<link>http://www.stratpost.com/pakistan-has-been-an-unreliable-ally-of-us-biden</link>
		<comments>http://www.stratpost.com/pakistan-has-been-an-unreliable-ally-of-us-biden#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Indo-Asian News Service</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arun Kumar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Char Rahi Abdul Haq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chitral]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CNN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Director General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Durand Line]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inter Services Public Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISAF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kabul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kunar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lower Dir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Major General Athar Abbas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuristan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan Army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Upper Dir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Embassy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Vice President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xinhua]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stratpost.com/?p=4551</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pakistan has been an unreliable ally of the US in the war against terror and failed "on occasion" when forced to choose between Washington and the Al Qaeda, says US Vice President Joe Biden.
]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.stratpost.com/pakistan-has-been-an-unreliable-ally-of-us-biden/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Rana acquitted for 26/11, India disappointed</title>
		<link>http://www.stratpost.com/rana-acquitted-for-2611-india-disappointed</link>
		<comments>http://www.stratpost.com/rana-acquitted-for-2611-india-disappointed#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Indo-Asian News Service</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[26/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acting assistant attorney general for national security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bharatiya Janata Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BJP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Swift]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Sun Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Tribune]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chief Minister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danish cartoonist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Coleman Headley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dirksen Federal Courthouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[External Affairs Minister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First World Immigration Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gujarat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inter Services Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Harry D. Leinenweber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lashkar-e-Taiba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LeT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Major Iqbal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mumbai attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Narendra Modi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Investigation Agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Blegen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Fitzgerald]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prophet Mohammed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ProPublica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rana's attorneys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ravi Shankar Prasad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sajid Mir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secretary (Internal Security)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tahawwur Rana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Todd Hinnen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.K. Bansal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Attorney]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stratpost.com/?p=4194</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ In a verdict that "disappointed" India, a US jury cleared Pakistan-born Canadian Tahawwur Rana of charges that he helped with the 26/11 Mumbai attack but convicted him of supporting the <em>Lashkar-e-Taiba</em> (LeT), the Islamist militant group New Delhi blames for the carnage.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.stratpost.com/rana-acquitted-for-2611-india-disappointed/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>US reduces troops in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://www.stratpost.com/us-reduces-troops-in-pakistan</link>
		<comments>http://www.stratpost.com/us-reduces-troops-in-pakistan#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Indo-Asian News Service</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abbottabad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Office of the Defense Representative-Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan Army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US military personnel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vice Admiral Michael LeFever]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stratpost.com/?p=4191</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["We recently received a written request from the government of Pakistan to reduce the number of US military personnel here, and we have nearly completed that reduction," Vice Admiral Michael LeFever, chief of the Office of the Defense Representative-Pakistan, was quoted as saying by <em>Xinhua</em>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.stratpost.com/us-reduces-troops-in-pakistan/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>US imposes sanctions on Libya</title>
		<link>http://www.stratpost.com/us-imposes-sanctions-on-libya</link>
		<comments>http://www.stratpost.com/us-imposes-sanctions-on-libya#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DPA</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abdul-Rahman al-Abbar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ahmed Gadhaf al-Dam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Jazeera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ambassador Gerard Araud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ambassador Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ban Ki Moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benghazi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Rodham Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IANS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muammar Gaddafi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RIA Novosti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saif al-Islam Gaddafi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secretary of State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tripoli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunisia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN Secretary-General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN Security Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stratpost.com/?p=3826</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[US President Barack Obama cited the Libyan government's 'continued violation of human rights, brutalization of its people and outrageous threats'.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.stratpost.com/us-imposes-sanctions-on-libya/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Blog: The cost of the Af-Pak withdrawal</title>
		<link>http://www.stratpost.com/the-cost-of-the-af-pak-withdrawal</link>
		<comments>http://www.stratpost.com/the-cost-of-the-af-pak-withdrawal#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saurabh Joshi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AfPak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Istanbul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pundita]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rethink Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State of the Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stratpost.com/?p=1564</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What would be the objectives achieved by the US and it's allies in Afghanistan? Will the departure of the US and its allies leave the region safer than before the US invaded Afghanistan? Would the Afghan people have hope left for a fair go; an even chance?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.stratpost.com/the-cost-of-the-af-pak-withdrawal/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Does finishing the job mean staying the course?</title>
		<link>http://www.stratpost.com/does-finishing-the-job-mean-staying-the-course</link>
		<comments>http://www.stratpost.com/does-finishing-the-job-mean-staying-the-course#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saurabh Joshi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[26/11]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Af-Pak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brigadier SK Chatterji]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Council on Foreign Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Headley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Stanley McChrystal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Ocean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISAF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kashmir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lashkar e Toiba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prime Minister Manmohan Singh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secretary of Defense Robert Gates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Point Military Academy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stratpost.com/?p=1371</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Does President Barack Obama's 'finishing the job' mean the same thing as staying the course in Afghanistan, as urged by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.stratpost.com/does-finishing-the-job-mean-staying-the-course/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Indian role in Afghanistan likely to increase &#8216;regional tensions&#8217;: McChrystal</title>
		<link>http://www.stratpost.com/indian-role-in-afghanistan-likely-to-increase-regional-tensions-mcchrystal</link>
		<comments>http://www.stratpost.com/indian-role-in-afghanistan-likely-to-increase-regional-tensions-mcchrystal#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saurabh Joshi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Af-Pak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghan National Army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghan National Security Forces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda and Associated Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANSF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AQAM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[COIN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Stanley McChrystal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haqqani Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HQN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Security Assistance Force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISAF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mullah Omar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QST]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quetta Shura Taliban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secretary of Defense Robert Gates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surveillance and Reconnaissance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stratpost.com/?p=1197</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The commander of US and ISAF forces in Afghanistan has, in his assessment to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, said that 'increasing Indian influence in Afghanistan is likely to exacerbate regional tensions'. General Stanley McChrystal, while promising a new ISAF strategy, also points out the need for additional forces, calling the next year critical. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.stratpost.com/indian-role-in-afghanistan-likely-to-increase-regional-tensions-mcchrystal/feed</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

