What the U.S. Intel Thinks about the Future of Afghanistan?

Let�s Hear from the Spies

Posted by Steve Coll, New Yorker, November 24, 2011



In late 2008, the United States intelligence community produced a classified National Intelligence Estimate on the war in Afghanistan that has never been released to the public. The N.I.E. described a �grim situation� overall, according to an intelligence officer�s private briefing for NATO ambassadors.

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