EMM News Explorer: Richard Holbrooke

[-said]: We want to be the first with the most assistance, and we have been,

ipsnews 20-AUG-10

[-said]: and train them as the terrorists of tomorrow.

newschannel5 20-AUG-10

[-said]: We're going to help as long as we can, as long as we're needed. We have been Pakistan's best friend in this crisis. … We are really going all out,

upi 20-AUG-10

[-told]: I think the Chinese should step up to the plate,

news 20-AUG-10

[-said]: The Pakistan government has been stretched to the breaking point, and I've been told by the foreign minister that the biggest problem has been at the local level, where local governments have been drowned, wiped out, overwhelmed, as well as at the national level.

cnn 20-AUG-10

[said:]: many billions

CBC 19-AUG-10

[-said]: step up to the plate.

CBSnews 19-AUG-10

[-said]: Pakistan is uniquely important to our own interest but that is not why we're here today,

indiatimes 19-AUG-10

[ said]: The people of Pakistan will see that when the crisis hits, it's not the Chinese, it's not the Iranians, it's not other countries,

voanews 17-AUG-10

[-said]: across the border in the tribal areas of Pakistan,

indiatimes 14-AUG-10

[-said]: He was head of the ISI. He also went to Fort Leavenworth Command and Control College and is proud to say he is a member of the Fort Leavenworth Hall of Fame (in Kansas). Among general officers I've known, he's a remarkable strategic thinker. He's very smart,

HindustanTimes 14-AUG-10

[-told]: Our enemy is Al-Qaeda. They lurk across the border in the tribal areas of Pakistan, the very areas that have been just hit by the floods. The point I want to make is there are about five of our most dangerous bad guy groups all grouped in this area in Pakistan where the floods are going on now,

financialexpress 14-AUG-10

[said:]: there are about five of our most dangerous bad guy groups all grouped in this area in Pakistan where the floods are going on now.

indiatimes 14-AUG-10

[-said]: There are other countries who are having similar dialogues with but not perhaps at this level and the two I want to single out are India and China because they also have legitimate roles in the area,

HindustanTimes 14-AUG-10

[-said]: All based in Pakistan and they're all based in an area roughly the size of California in the tribal areas,

indiatimes 14-AUG-10

[told:]: Charlie Rose

indiatimes 14-AUG-10

[said:]: We have continued to work with the Pakistanis to get them to work with us to do something about the Taliban in the sanctuaries.

indiatimes 14-AUG-10

[-said]: There are other countries who are having similar dialogues with (the US) but not perhaps at this level and the two I want to single out are India and China because they also have legitimate roles in the area,

indiatimes 14-AUG-10

[-said]: Fourth, you have the infamous Haqqani group, a ruthless separate group focussed in North Waziristan, which is in Pakistan but raids all the way into Kabul. Finally, the last group, is a group that the Americans don't pay any attention to called the LeT, but the Indians sure pay attention because it is the LeT who attacked Mumbai in December of 2008,

financialexpress 14-AUG-10

[-said]: I don't think we should even worry about those right now. We should just worry about relief and getting assistance to the people,

news 12-AUG-10

[-said]: Americans have been very focused on other, equally heart-wrenching, issues, like Haiti. I hope they will turn their attention as well to this extraordinary crisis that Pakistan is facing,

news 12-AUG-10

[-said]: That is because floods, unlike earthquakes and tsunamis, are not sudden catastrophes that hit and then the reconstruction begins. They're rolling crises, which grow and are initially underestimated, and that is what has happened in Pakistan.

AsiaOne 12-AUG-10

[ said]: This was an act by a small ruthless minority, which is what the Taliban are,

voanews 10-AUG-10

[-said]: They (the Taliban) do not represent the popular will in Afghanistan and every poll, every survey... shows that their support is in the single digits,

AsiaOne 10-AUG-10

[-said]: We are looking for ways to give additional helicopter support,

app 10-AUG-10

[-told]: This is very serious...but so far we have not raised this much money as we did for Swat (last year during the country’s anti-militant campaign) and I am concerned that perhaps people think that it is just another one of the endless tragedies that Pakistan endures,

app 10-AUG-10

[-said]: They [the Taliban] do not represent the popular will in Afghanistan and every poll, every survey ... shows that their support is in the single digits,

MailGuardian 10-AUG-10

[-said]: They do not represent the popular will in Afghanistan and every poll, every survey ... shows that their support is in the single digits,

smh 09-AUG-10

[-told]: All we can say is that the Taliban claimed this action, which is in itself extraordinary,

reliefWeb 09-AUG-10

[-told]: In the midst of so many other challenges, Pakistan now confronts another major natural disaster. The United States is responding rapidly,

alertnet 05-AUG-10

[ said]: I don't want to waste time going back to 9/11 [September 11, 2001], but that is why we are there,

b92net_en 29-JUL-10

[-said]: It was creating a modern state, a modern democracy in Afghanistan with limited resources,

reuters 29-JUL-10

[ said]: There is nothing in these documents, most of which date way back into the previous administration, that should change anyone's judgments about the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan,

csmonitor 29-JUL-10

[ said]: I just find it inexplicable that people who would take the oath of office to the United States would violate it in such an extraordinary way,

b92net_en 29-JUL-10

[-said]: I'm sure General Petraeus will continue to play the same role, if not more so. I've talked to David (Petraeus) about that,

indiatimes 26-JUL-10

[-said]: The United States has had no direct contact with any of the Taliban leadership, but we read constantly, we hear constantly of other groups in touch. We support a policy in which the Afghan government of President Karzai takes the lead,

indiatimes 26-JUL-10

[-said]: As long as they had no dialogue, you couldn’t get anywhere,

dailytimesPK 26-JUL-10

[-said]: In fact, (the Pak) General (Ashfaq Pervez) Kayani and (the Afghanistan) President (Hamid) Karzai, as you just said, have begun to have a dialogue. That is a good thing, not a bad thing,

indiatimes 26-JUL-10

[said:]: You can't just go after the Pakistanis to do this and do that in the tribal areas.

HindustanTimes 26-JUL-10

[-said]: It's a tough, difficult policy, but it is the only one that meets our regional and international, national security interests,

indiatimes 26-JUL-10

[said that:]: does not apply to this administration

cnn 25-JUL-10

[-said]: They have to reach political arrangements,

irishsun 25-JUL-10

[-said]: while taking into account the strategic interests of India and other regional neighbors,

irishsun 25-JUL-10

[-said]: at the heart of counterinsurgency,

cnn 25-JUL-10

[-said]: Among the Taliban leadership, there are some people who are reconcilable and some are not,

irishsun 25-JUL-10

[-said that]: sit in a room. They don't air their real differences,

cnn 25-JUL-10

[-said]: is a good thing, not a bad thing,

irishsun 25-JUL-10

[-told]: What's happening in Marjah is that the U.S. military and NATO went into one of the most difficult areas of the country, one of the bellies of the insurgency, displaced the Taliban and settled in,

cnn 25-JUL-10

[-said]: There's a huge difference between the head of an established government and some crazed terrorists who are hiding in the tribal areas of Afghanistan,

cnn 25-JUL-10

[-said]: As for reconciliation - it's out there somewhere, we've talked about it and the United States will support Afghan-led reconciliation,

irishsun 23-JUL-10

[-said]: Everyone talks about North Waziristan, but what we talk about is the Haqqani network,

irishsun 23-JUL-10

[-decline]: REAL PROBLEM

reuters 23-JUL-10

[-decline]: real problem

MailGuardian 23-JUL-10

[-said]: I don't want to mislead you,

irishsun 23-JUL-10

[-said]: major international crisis

guardian 23-JUL-10

[-said]: The US has spoken to the Pakistan government and the military on ISI links with the Taleban,

khaleejtimes 23-JUL-10

[said:]: The links between the ISI and the Taleban are a problem.

khaleejtimes 23-JUL-10

[-said]: The reintegration policy is the key to a successful counter-insurgency campaign,

MailGuardian 23-JUL-10

[-said]: It's a very complicated relationship, but it is an indispensable one for Great Britain and the United States and very much at the top of the U.S.-U.K. agenda is how to work together with Pakistan to make Pakistan part of the solution to the problems of the region - because without Pakistan's participation, this war could go on indefinitely,

irishsun 23-JUL-10

[-insisted that]: not yet where we hope it will be.

irishsun 23-JUL-10

[-said]: We won’t let Taleban or Pakistan take over Afghanistan. You can’t stabilise Afghanistan without Pakistan’s support as a concerned, legitimate partner,

khaleejtimes 23-JUL-10

[-said]: Kai Eide was advertising contacts with the Taliban that essentially barely existed, there were some marginal ones,

irishsun 23-JUL-10

[-said]: The LeT, Al Qaeda and Taleban are all working closer together than ever before. Their long-term objective is to destroy the Western civilisation and to create crisis between New Delhi and Islamabad,

khaleejtimes 23-JUL-10

[-told]: Improved American relations with Pakistan are not bad for India,

dailytimesPK 23-JUL-10

[-said]: you cannot stabilise (Afghanistan) without the participation of Pakistan which has legitimate concerns.

indiatimes 22-JUL-10

[ said]: We have seen these groups coming together in the past three or four years because of the pressure they are under,

HindustanTimes 22-JUL-10

[-said]: Under intense pressure these groups seem to be growing closer to each other. Two or three years ago, they were more distinct than now,

TheFrontierPost 22-JUL-10

[-told]: India is not being diminished. It's not a zero sum game,

HindustanTimes 22-JUL-10

[-told]: The LeT, al Qaeda and Taliban are all working closer together than ever before. The terror groups want to create a crisis between New Delhi and Islamabad,

trendnews 22-JUL-10

[-said]: Their long-term objective is to destroy the Western civilisation and to create crisis between New Delhi and Islamabad,

timesofindia 22-JUL-10

[ said]: We understand, as government, that it (LeT) is a threat and we talk about it all the time with Pakistani military (asking them) to deny their territory to this organisation,

indiatimes 22-JUL-10

[-said]: When we talk about major terrorist groups we consider it as dangerous as other groups,

TheFrontierPost 22-JUL-10

[ said]: We understand, as the government, that it (LeT) is a threat and we talk about it all the time with Pakistani military (asking them) to deny their territory to this organisation,

TheFrontierPost 22-JUL-10

[said:]: Let me be clear. There is no American involvement in any reconciliation process.

guardian 20-JUL-10

[ said]: producing a change in Pakistani attitudes, first within the government and gradually, more slowly, within the public,

wsj 19-JUL-10

[ said]: Bringing Islamabad and Kabul together has been the goal of this administration from the beginning,

wsj 19-JUL-10

[said:]: Let me be clear.There is no American involvement in any reconciliation process.

guardian 19-JUL-10

[ said]: We needed to change the core of the relationship with Pakistan,

indiatimes 18-JUL-10

[-said]: highest priorities,

irishsun 18-JUL-10

[-told]: Pakistan has made progress in the past 20 months of democratic rule, but these gains are fragile and those who oppose democracy in Pakistan are becoming more aggressive,

TheFrontierPost 18-JUL-10

[-told]: in cooperation between the two governments, but conceded Pakistani public opinion was lagging. We only have small indications of improvement in the polls, but significant examples of improvements in the government,

kuwaittimes 18-JUL-10

[-said]: The evolution of the strategic dialogue and the fact that we're delivering is producing a change in Pakistani attitude, first in the government, and gradually, more slowly in the public opinion,

smh 18-JUL-10

[-said]: The fact that we are delivering is producing change in Pakistani attitudes,

app 18-JUL-10

[-said]: Now, to get a name delisted takes Security Council approval, which means the five permanent members must do this, must agree. So there's a UN process. Last week, I went to New York to talk to the Austrian ambassador to the UN, who is in charge of this process for the UN Security Council, and to various other UN officials and to the US mission to the UN,

indiatimes 18-JUL-10

[ said]: Bringing Islamabad and Kabul together has been a goal of this administration from the beginning,

AP 18-JUL-10

[-conceded that]: The evolution of the strategic dialogue, and the fact that we are delivering, is producing a change in Pakistani attitudes.

indiatimes 18-JUL-10

[said last week that:]: nothing could be more important to the resolution of the war in Afghanistan than a common understanding between Afghanistan and Pakistan on what their strategic purpose is.

irishsun 18-JUL-10

[-said]: This is a vivid demonstration of the two countries coming closer together,

newschannel5 18-JUL-10

[ said]: To get there we need to change the core of the relationship with Pakistan,

irishsun 18-JUL-10

[-told]: We only have small indications of improvement in the polls, but significant examples of improvements in the government,

irishsun 18-JUL-10

[-said]: The Kabul conference is going to have several focuses, but the one I want to draw attention to is the reintegration program, which has finally been announced and which is now the money has been assembled, a good chunk of money, and we all agree there's no final military solution to this war. There has to be a way to get how about fighters off the battlefield, and this is the route.,

irishsun 17-JUL-10

[ said]: You cannot succeed in Afghanistan without Pakistan's involvement,

irishsun 17-JUL-10

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