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		<title>Interview With A Tribal Chief Update</title>
		<link>http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2010/05/interview-with-a-tribal-chief-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 01:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Interview with a Tribal Chief&#8221; is one series  that ran on the &#8220;It&#8217;s the Tribes, Stupid&#8221; blog. It featured interviews with Chief Ajmal Khan Zazai.
Freerange International has a report up about Chief Zazai being ambushed by Pakistani Taliban this past week.
Last night as Ajmal was moving through the town of Ali Khel near the Pakistan<br/><a href="http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2010/05/interview-with-a-tribal-chief-update/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan, continued</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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SP: Chief Zazai, last week we were talking about Pakistan and you said there were in fact four Pakistans: the bureaucrats who are always in power, the current elected government, the army, and finally what you called the &#8220;Shadowy government&#8221; of ex-ISI and army officers who exert tremendous unseen influence.
This week let&#8217;s get local and<br/><a href="http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/12/interview-wtribal-chief-11-pakistan-continued/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/12/interview-wtribal-chief-10-pakistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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SP: Chief Zazai, I&#8217;d like to talk to you today on the subject of Pakistan. More than any other aspect of the Afghan conflict, I think, the subject of Pakistani involvement is confusing to Americans. Even extremely well-versed observers ask, &#8220;Whose side is Pakistan on?&#8221; You, more than anyone I know, are in a position<br/><a href="http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/12/interview-wtribal-chief-10-pakistan/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Corruption</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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SP: Chief Zazai, I&#8217;d love to get your take today on the subject of corruption, because so much has been written about it recently in the American press&#8211;that cleaning up the Karzai government has become a major priority of the new Obama plan, that benchmarks will now be enforced and so on. The Western media<br/><a href="http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/12/interview-wtribal-chief-9-thoughts-on-corruption/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is Time Running Out?</title>
		<link>http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/11/interview-wtribal-chief-8-is-time-running-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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[The blog is taking Thanksgiving off; we'll repost last week's interview below.
[On this day of gratitude, though, I want to offer a major thank-you to our weekly series contributors, Chief Ajmal Khan Zazai and Maj. Jim Gant; thanks to everyone who has logged onto the blog, circulated it and linked to it; and special thanks<br/><a href="http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/11/interview-wtribal-chief-8-is-time-running-out/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>It Was Easier Fighting the Taliban</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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SP: You&#8217;ve been in Kabul the last couple of weeks, Chief Zazai. What were you doing there?
Chief Zazai: I was meeting with British and American commanders, trying to get support for the Tribal Police Force program in my home valley.
SP: Do I dare ask how that went?
Chief Zazai: Steve, without exception the generals at the<br/><a href="http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/11/interview-with-a-tribal-chief-6-it-was-easier-fighting-the-taliban/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Warlords and Taliban</title>
		<link>http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/interview-with-a-tribal-chief-4-warlords-and-taliban/</link>
		<comments>http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/interview-with-a-tribal-chief-4-warlords-and-taliban/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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[The blog is "on the road" this week.  Here is a re-run of the most clicked interview so far.  See you next week!]
Welcome back, Chief Zazai, after last week&#8217;s break in our ongoing, multi-part interview. As you know, we took that space last week to post an open letter to Gens. Jones, Petraeus, McChrystal and<br/><a href="http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/interview-with-a-tribal-chief-4-warlords-and-taliban/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to Gen. James Jones, National Security Advisor</title>
		<link>http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/an-open-letter-to-gen-james-jones-national-security-advisor/</link>
		<comments>http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/an-open-letter-to-gen-james-jones-national-security-advisor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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[This week has been a rough one for our troops in Afghanistan--and a contentions one among policymakers here in the States.  I'm going to interrupt our ongoing interview with tribal chief Ajmal Khan Zazai to post this open letter.  The same note was sent by e-mail two days ago to the parties below.]

TO: Gen. James<br/><a href="http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/an-open-letter-to-gen-james-jones-national-security-advisor/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Part 2: Warlords</title>
		<link>http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/interview-with-a-tribal-chief-part-2-warlords/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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SP: Welcome back, Chief Zazai, for this second installment of our multi-part interview. As our readers know from last week, you are a paramount chief of eleven tribes in your home district, the Zazi Valley in Paktia province. Your father fought the Soviets and the Taliban and was assassinated in 2000; you yourself have fought<br/><a href="http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/interview-with-a-tribal-chief-part-2-warlords/">More >></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Part #1</title>
		<link>http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/09/an-interview-with-an-afghan-tribal-chief-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/09/an-interview-with-an-afghan-tribal-chief-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Pressfield</dc:creator>
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[The blog is out of town this week.  Here is a re-boot of our first post in this ongoing series. See you Monday!]
This will be the first of a multi-part conversation with Chief Ajmal Khan Zazai of Paktia province, Afghanistan. Let&#8217;s plunge right in.
SP: Chief Zazai, this summer you were elected to the paramountcy of eleven<br/><a href="http://agora.stevenpressfield.com/2009/09/an-interview-with-an-afghan-tribal-chief-part-1/">More >></a>]]></description>
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