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HARDtalk: Bruce Riedel, Senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former adviser to three US Presidents

05/01/2011

Bruce Riedel, Senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former adviser to three US Presidents

BBC News Channel - HARDtalk, Bruce Riedel, Senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former adviser to three US Presidents

Stephen Sackur speaks to Bruce Riedel, adviser to President Obama.

Stephen Sackur speaks to Bruce Riedel, adviser to President Obama on Afghanistan and Pakistan, and asks if the US is any closer to neutralising the jihadi threat.

According to President Barack Obama's own timetable, US troops will begin a gradual and phased pullback from Afghanistan in just seven months time. Is that feasible given the state of the Afghan conflict and the Karzai government? Stephen Sackur speaks to Bruce Riedel, former CIA officer, national security official to President's Clinton and Bush, and adviser to President Obama on Afghanistan and Pakistan. With the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaching is the US any closer to neutralising the jihadi threat?

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