Taliban Bomb ISI HQ in Peshawar

Juan Cole 11/13/2009

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AfPak continued to generate headlines and concerns on Friday morning.

In Peshawar, insurgents set off a huge bomb near the regional HQ of Inter-Services Intelligence. Early reports say that the death toll was above 15, and that dozens were wounded.

In Afghanistan itself, Aljazeera English reports on corruption in that country:

Retired four-star general and former army chief of staff Jack Keane frankly calls the brother of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, Ahmad Wali, a “thug” and says that the US is “on to him.”

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page