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Compositions of and methods for the preparation of polyvinylpyridine and iodine (PVP.nI2) as cathode materials for electrochemical cells.
1. A composition comprising an initial polyvinylpyridine polymer component, selected from the group consisting of P2VP, P4VP and mixtures thereof, and iodine in a predetermined mole ratio of from about 20:1 to about 40:1, the composition having a conductivity measured at 37� C. of at least about 1.5�10-3 reciprocal ohm-cm and being formed in a sealed container by mixing the polymer component and at least a portion of the iodine together and by heating the polymer component before or during mixing, or by heating the resultant mixture, to a temperature in excess of about 225� C., and thereafter adding the remaining balance, if any, of the iodine to make-up the predetermined mole ratio.
2. A composition comprising an initial polyvinylpyridine polymer component, selected from the group consisting of P2VP, P4VP and mixtures thereof, and iodine in a predetermined mole ratio of at least about 20:1, the composition having a conductivity measured at 37� C. of at least about 1.5�10-3 reciprocal ohm-cm and being formed in a sealed container by mixing the polymer component and at least a portion of the iodine together and by heating the polymer component before or during mixing, or by heating the resultant mixture, to a temperature in excess of about 225� C. and thereafter adding the remaining balance, if any, of the iodine to make-up the predetermined mole ratio.
3. The composition of claim 1 wherein the mole ratio is from about 20:1 up to about 40:1 and the conductivity at 37� C. is at least about 3�10-3 reciprocal ohm-cm.
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 6,003, filed Jan. 24, 1979 abandoned.
Batteries, such as those of the lithium/iodine type for example, sometimes referred to as solid state cells, make use of a cathode material comprised of iodine and an iodine containing charge transfer compound. Charge transfer compounds are sometimes referred to as complexes and sometimes as donor-acceptor compounds. The iodine in such a cathode reacts electrochemically with the lithium anode to provide a voltage output. This reaction causes a lithium iodide electrolyte to form in situ between the anode and cathode. The charge transfer donor typically used is a polyvinylpyridine, (PVP) such as poly-2-vinylpyridine (P2VP) or poly-4-vinylpyridine (P4-VP). Additional amounts of free iodine ie., excess iodine which is not combined with the charge transfer donor are usually included as part of the cathode material to provide an iodine "reservoir" for the battery to draw on during discharge. The additional iodine increases the useful life of the battery.
Unfortunately, the polyvinylpyridine-iodine cathode compositions, previously used such as P2VP and/or P4VP based cathodes have exhibited a conductivity which degrades severely with the addition of relatively large amounts of iodine to the complex. Such amounts of iodine are hereinafter referred to as "excess iodine". Consequently, this degradation in the conductivity of the composition has effectively limited the amount of iodine which could heretofore be included in such cathodes without degrading the conductivity of the material below a useful level. As a result, the polyvinylpyridine cathode materials, which have been previously available, have not had as high an energy density as is theoretically possible from an iodine based system. This fact is particularly important for such applications as in implantable medical devices, ie., heart pacemakers for example.
It is a purpose of this invention to provide polyvinylpyridine-iodine cathodes, P2VP and/or P4VP based, having markedly higher conductivity than has been heretofore possible. As a result, the preparation of useful cathode materials having a much higher iodine content, such as materials having a final mole ratio of 20:1 or greater overall iodine to P2VP and/or P4VP donor, is made possible. Consequently, higher energy densities and longer useful life are provided by the improved cathode materials prepared according to this invention.
Herein, "mole ratio" is defined in terms of the number of moles of iodine (I2) to the number of gram formula weights of vinylpyridine in the initial polymer-donor mixture. For example, a mixture which initially contains 508 grams of I2 and 10.5 grams of PVP would have a mole ratio (n) of 20:1 and will be designated as PVP.20I2. "Mole fraction" is defined in an analogous manner as n/n+1, according to the above nomenclature.
For descriptive purposes herein, the term "complex" refers to any single phase iodine and donor mixture. The term "cathode material" refers to a material composed of a "complex" and may include excess iodine, which may be present as a solid phase.
The invention is directed to cathode materials and provides methods of preparing cathode materials from P2VP, P4VP or mixtures thereof with varying amounts of iodine, At least a part of the preparation must take place at temperatures in excess of about 225� C. in a sealed container in order to obtain the improved conductivities, which are characteristic of this invention.
In one form of the invention, following preparation of a highly conductive cathode material at elevated temperature, excess iodine is then added. The iodine may be added at room temperature and in amounts to provide a final mole ratio of about 20:1 or higher if desired. For example, a final mole ratio of 40:1 may be prepared in this manner. Smaller amounts may also be used.
In another form of the invention, a one-step technique may be used to prepare a high conductivity cathode material directly by initially adding the desired final amount of iodine. In this embodiment the desired relative final amounts of P2VP and P4VP donor and iodine are simply mixed together and heated to a temperature in excess of about 225� C.
FIG. 1 is a graph showing conductivity plotted versus reaction time for samples of P2VP based cathode materials prepared at various reaction temperatures as indicated;
FIG. 2 is a graph showing conductivity plotted versus both "mole fraction I2 " and "mole ratio I2 to P2VP" for samples of cathode materials prepared at various reaction temperatures, as indicated, with a four hour reaction time;
FIG. 3 is a graph showing the conductivity versus reciprocal temperature of cathode materials made from P2VP and P4VP donor materials (PVP.3.3I2) prepared at various temperatures, as indicated, with a four hour reaction time;
FIG. 4 is a graph showing the voltage output versus capacity (expressed in amp-hours) of a battery having a P2VP based cathode material prepared according to the invention, and,
FIG. 5 is a graph showing conductivity plotted versus reaction preparation heating temperature for the P2VP.3.3I2 samples of cathode materials illustrated in FIG. 1, reaction time at temperature is indicated for each.
The invention is best illustrated by reference to the FIG. 1 graph which shows the conductivity (measured at 37� C.) of samples of P2VP.3.3I2 (mole ratio) mixture heated at various temperatures plotted versus time of heating to form a cathode material. Heating is accomplished in a sealed container. It can be seen that heating at 175� C. will produce a conductivity no higher than about 4�10-3 reciprocal ohm-cm no matter how long the heating takes place. On the other hand, heating such a mixture at about 225� C. produces a complex having a conductivity (at 37� C.) of about 7�10-3 reciprocal ohm-cm. Heating at even higher temperatures produces cathode materials having even higher conductivities. It is also shown in FIG. 1 that less heating time is required to obtain improved conductivity as the heating temperature is increased above about 225� C. for preparing cathode materials. Thus, a predetermined minimum time of heating or reaction time is required depending on the heating or reaction temperature used in the preparation.
The P2VP.3.3I2 materials produced by heating the components together in excess of about 225� C. are in and of themselves desirable cathode materials because of their high conductivities.
Other mole ratios of iodine mixed with P2VP donor behave in a similar manner ie., heating above about 225� C. provides higher conductivity, as is illustrated by the graph of FIG. 2. However, the mole ratio should be at least 1:1. In FIG. 2, the conductivity (measured at 37� C.) of cathode materials of various mole ratios [n in (P2VP.nI2)] are plotted for various preparation or reaction temperatures. It can been seen that, for any selected mole ratio, 3.3 for example, the conductivity thereof is higher as one proceeds to higher preparation temperatures. It is preferred that the cathode material have a conductivity higher than about 1.5�10-3 reciprocal ohm-cm and that the mole ratio be at least 12:1. This can be readily accomplished at temperatures of about 225� C. or higher.
P4VP donor material behaves similarly to P2VP donor material. This is illustrated in FIG. 3 which shows the conductivities of 3.3:1 mole ratio cathode materials made up from P2VP and P4VP donor materials with four hours reaction time at 150� C. and 320� C. In this Figure, the conductivities are plotted versus reciprocal temperature to show their relative activation energies. The upper 320� C. and upper 150� C. lines representing P2VP, the lower lines representing P4VP. The P2VP and P4VP complexes, prepared at 150� C. have similar slopes but different absolute conductivities. This indicates their conductivity mechanism is likely the same and the conductivity difference probably arises from these polymers inherent properties. However, when the cathode materials are prepared at 320� C. both the slopes and absolute conductivities are very similar. Thus, this invention also provides conductivity enhancement in P4VP based cathode materials which are comparable to P2VP based counterparts. All of the data suggest P2VP and P4VP behave analogously with regard to this invention.
Mixtures of P2VP and P4VP donor material may also be used. For example, a mixture of equal parts P2VP and P4VP was used to prepare a 3.3:1 mole ratio cathode material. The material prepared at 320� C. for four hours had a conductivity of 1.15�10-2 reciprocal, ohm-cm.
High conductivity in the cathode material is necessary because, as already pointed out, high additional amounts of iodine added to the material degrades its conductivity. By providing a high initial conductivity in the material, larger amounts of iodine can be added thereto without degrading the final conductivity of the resultant material to a low undesirable value. With higher ratios, one can expect to maintain a conductivity of about 10-3 reciprocal ohm-cm or better with the techniques of this invention while also obtaining a much improved deliverable energy density than has been heretofore possible. As can be seen in the graph of FIG. 4, a P2VP.20I2 (mole ratio) cathode material prepared according to the invention and tested in a battery having a lithium anode provided about 90% of stoichiometric capacity to a 2.0 Volt cut-off. The cathode material was prepared by heating a mixture of P2VP.3.3I2 to 300� C. for about four hours in a sealed glass container. Upon cooling, excess iodine was added to the material to provide a final mole ratio of P2VP.20I2.
Cells made according to the invention at 20:1 mole ratio from P4VP based materials behave similar to the P2VP based material prepared according to the invention. For example, a P4VP cell had an initial open circuit voltage (OCV) of 2.74 volts as compared with 2.78 volts for a P2VP cell. At 10 k ohm load the P4VP cell had a voltage of 2.65 volts while a comparable P2VP cell had a voltage of 2.60 volts. The lack of substantial differences between these cells indicates that the P4VP based cathodes will enjoy performance enhancement similar to that for the P2VP cells when prepared according to the invention.
The ability to include large quantities of excess iodine with more highly conductive materials, formed with the polyvinylpyridine polymer and iodine, is an important feature of this invention from the energy density standpoint as already indicated.
There are two ways to incorporate the excess iodine with the material. In the first and presently most preferred form, the polyvinylpyridine polymer component is mixed with a relatively low amount of iodine, such as 3.3 mole ratio or less, ie., enough to merely form a single phase cathode material with little or no excess iodine. As previously described, the mixture is heated in excess of about 225� C. for a predetermined period of time, dependent upon the temperature selected, to form material of improved conductivity. For example, as shown in FIG. 1, heating a 3.3 mole ratio sample at about 225� C.-320� C. for about one hour produces improved material. An 8 hour reaction time appears to be adequate to assure complete reaction. However, longer times may be used. An additional amount of iodine may then be added, at any convenient temperature ie., room temperature or elevated, to provide any desired excess amount in the final cathode material resulting from this preparation.
More specifically, in accordance with this first form of the invention, a highly conductive material is prepared from P2VP, P4VP or mixtures thereof ie., P2VP.nI2 and/or P4VP.nI2 where n (indicative of mole ratio) may range from about 1.0 to 3.3. A preferred value for n is 3.3 in the case of P2VP and iodine. Such a preferred composition prepared in accordance with this invention will exhibit a conductivity on the order of 4�10-3 reciprocal ohm-cm or higher. Optionally, additional iodine may then be added.
The high conductivity obtained in the cathode materials prepared by the first method of the invention is illustrated by referring again to FIG. 1. The Figure also demonstrates the practical parameters of time and temperature involved in the method of the invention. Several samples of P2VP.3.3I2 cathode materials were prepared in sealed containers at various temperatures and times ranging over 150� C. to 320� C. and from one hour to twenty-four hours. The 3.3:1 mole ratio materials used in preparing this Figure are illustrative. As already pointed out, various other ratios are possible as desired.
As can be seen from FIG. 1, samples heated at 250� C. for at least about 8 hours, upon cooling and measuring the conductivity thereof at 37� C., exhibit a conductivity on the order of 10-2 reciprocal ohm-cm or greater. On the other hand, the time for heating at 320� C. can be shortened to on the order of an hour or so to attain or exceed a 37� C. conductivity of the order of 10-2 reciprocal ohm-cm. The 37� C. temperature at which conductivity is measured for samples discussed herein was selected arbitrarily. Other temperatures may be used for measuring the conductivity of these materials so long as any selected temperature is used consistently for purposes of comparison between samples.
Heating temperatures in excess of 350� C. show no substantial increased benefit as to heating time in attaining the high conductivity levels of this invention. The graph of FIG. 5 illustrates this aspect using the same samples as were used for FIG. 1. In FIG. 5 the conductivity of the samples, in reciprocal ohm-cm at 37� C., is plotted against temperature to show that there is an effective maximum temperature to which all of the samples converge. The maximum temperature is on the order of about 325�-350� C. From a practical standpoint, heating at temperatures in excess of this level appears to be of no benefit.
As seen in FIG. 3, P4VP based compounds can be prepared over the same temperature range as those of P2VP.
Upon cooling to room temperature, following the above preparation, the high conductivity P2VP, P4VP or mixed P2VP/P4VP cathode material will be more or less fluid depending on the amount of iodine included therein and the temperature to which it was heated.
In order to prepare a high energy density cathode material it is only necessary to mix additional iodine with the above described materials. Preferably, the iodine is ground into a convenient powder form for this purpose. Elevated temperatures may be used but are not necessary. The amount of iodine may be selected to provide any desired final mole ratio relative to the P2VP and/or P4VP organic constituents. In the case of batteries for implantable medical devices, it is preferred that the final mole ratio be of at least the order of 12:1.
For example, using a P2VP.3.3I2 material prepared according to the invention, having a conductivity in excess of 10-2 reciprocal ohm-cm and being fluid in form, powdered iodine was added thereto in sufficient quantity to provide a material having a final mole ratio of about 20:1. The resultant cathode material was of a wet sand-like consistency and dark appearance. It was pressed to a density of about 4.7 g/cc and used in a battery.
In the second form of the invention, highly conductive cathode materials are prepared ranging over various iodine mole ratios by simply including the desired final amount of iodine in the heating container with the polyvinylpyridine polymer, sealing the container and heating it to a temperature greater than about 225� C. for a predetermined time dependent on the selected temperature.
The table shows the conductivity of several samples of 20:1 mole ratio cathode material prepared according to one or the other of the two forms of the invention.
The first four cathodes were prepared by the first form or the two-step method using initial mole ratios between 1:1 and 6.2:1 and diluting with additional iodine to provide the final 20:1 mole ratio.
The table also shows a sample prepared according to the second form of the method of the invention ie., sufficient iodine being added initially to result in a cathode material having a final 20:1 mole ratio. As can be seen, all samples had conductivities between 1.2 and 2.1�10-3 reciprocal ohm-cm.
TABLE______________________________________ Conductivity ofReaction Temperature Composition* Final P2VP . 20I2(Mole Ratio I2 :P2VP) at 37� C. (ohm-cm)-1______________________________________ 1:1 1.25 � 10-32.1:1 1.39 � 10-33.3:1 1.75 � 10-36.2:1 2.05 � 10-3 20:1 1.56 � 10-3______________________________________ *Reaction time 4 hours at 320� C.
Examples of PVP which may be used with this invention are shown below. PVP from other sources will also be satisfactory for use with the invention.
P2VP may be synthesized as follows:
Benzoyl peroxide (2.0 grams) is dissolved in freshly distilled 2-vinylpyridine (200 grams). Water (400 ml) is added and the mixture is purged with nitrogen for 1 hour. With continued purging, the mixture is heated at 85� C. with stirring and kept at that temperature for two hours. The organic phase will thicken and develop a brown color during this time. The mixture is cooled; the aqueous phase is discarded and the organic phase is dried overnight at 60� C. in a vacuum oven. The residue is ground into fine granules and dried to a constant weight at 60� C. in the vacuum oven. Yield 162 gm (81%) poly-2-vinylpyridine. This product can be expected to provide the following results upon analysis by gel permeation chromotography:
Weight - average molecular weight--555,000
Number - average molecular weight--199,000
P2VP is manufactured by the Ionac Chemical Co., Birmingham, Alabama: typical weight--average molecular weight--301,000; typical number--average molecular weight--128,000.
P4VP may be synthesized as follows:
Freshly distilled 4-vinylpyridine is purged with nitrogen for one hour. The 4-vinylpyridine is heated with stirring under a continuing nitrogen purge to 160� C. and maintained at that temperature for 90 minutes. The contents of the reactor will darken and thicken during this time until agitation becomes very difficult to maintain. The reaction product is then poured warm into a container for storage and tightly sealed.
The product can be expected to provide the following results upon analysis by gel permeation chromatography:
% volatiles (probably monomer)--34%
Average molecular weight--6000 (includes monomer).
P4VP may be obtained commercially from Polysciences, Inc., identified as #0112.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — After getting through its toughest stretch of the season, Ohio State is back at No. 1.
For the third week in a row The Associated Press Top 25 poll has had a new team on top. The Buckeyes climbed a spot over Duke, which lost at Virginia Tech on Saturday night.
The Buckeyes welcome their return.
WASHINGTON (AP) — All 10 members of the NFL owners' labor committee and New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees attended Wednesday's mediation session between the league and the players' union, with fewer than 40 hours left until the collective bargaining agreement expires.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — NFL teams want to ignore the clock and keep it business at this week's annual scouting combine.
With the league's collective bargaining agreement expiring at the end of Thursday and the looming lockout less than a week away, the hype over this year's top draft prospects has suddenly been overshadowed by talk about contingency plans, mediation and unification.
It's a whole new universe for the NFL, which hasn't had a work stoppage since 1987.
BOSTON (AP) — Alex McKinney has dodged cars, hurdled snow banks, slipped on ice and splashed through slushy puddles while training for the Boston Marathon.
Preparing for 26.2 miles is never easy, but this winter has been particularly trying for runners, who have had to deal with record snowfall in the Northeast.
Before they can even think about challenging Heartbreak Hill, they've had to endure slippery sidewalks, icy inclines and frozen footpaths.
NEW YORK (AP) — For the second year in a row, the Super Bowl has set a record for American television viewing.
The Nielsen Co. said Monday that an estimated 111 million people watched the Green Bay Packers outlast the Pittsburgh Steelers in professional football's ultimate game. That tops the 106.5 million who watched the 2010 game between New Orleans and Indianapolis.
"M-A-S-H" had held the title of the most-watched TV show in the United States for 27 years.
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Nick De Luca has recovered from a hamstring injury to take his place in Scotland's starting XV for their Wooden Spoon decider against Italy in Rome.
The centre was a late withdrawal from Scotland's clash with Ireland last weekend but returns as the only change to Scotland's starting line up. He replaces Lee Jones, who suffered severe concussion during the defeat in Ireland. Max Evans moves on to the right wing while Jack Cuthbert is drafted onto the bench as cover for the back three.
The return of Leicester prop Martin Castrogiovanni is one of six changes for Italy.
The tight-head has recovered from a fractured rib that saw him miss the last two games and will start this weekend while Simone Favaro drops to the bench with flanker Robert Barbieri taking his place in the starting XV. Aironi lock Marco Bortolami replaces Cornelius Van Zyl to earn his 93rd cap.
In the backs Giovambattista Venditti replaces Luke McLean on the right wing while Tommaso Benvenuti will start at centre. Benetton Treviso's Edoardo Gori replaces Fabio Semenzato at scrum-half.
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As Pakistan traverses a difficult path, trying to negotiate peace with militant groups under a shaky ceasefire, provocative statements have come out this week from leading figures in the process accusing the US of not wanting the talks to succeed and even suggesting that the US would actively try to undermine them.
Today, we have this very provocative statement from Maulana Samiul Haq, who has played a prominent role in getting the peace talks under way:
Attempts will be made to sabotage the efforts of the intermediary committees with regards to the peace talks, stated Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Samiul Haq (JUI-S) chief Maulana Samiul Haq while speaking to the media in Nowshera on Wednesday.
He said that "the third enemy" will definitely do something to create obstacles, adding that USA, India and Afghanistan do not want the peace negotiations to be successful.
Dawn's coverage of the press conference describes Haq's statement in this way:
Haq, chief of the Taliban negotiating committee, told reporters after the meeting that the Taliban committee was seeking a meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. He praised the Taliban for announcing the ceasefire and said he had asked the militants to track down whoever was responsible for the recent violence.
Moreover, he also said that the announcement of a ceasefire from both sides was a major progress and that the Taliban had been asked to probe into those responsible for recent attacks.
The chief Taliban mediator added that Afghanistan, India and the United States wanted the dialogue process to fail.
He further said that the government and Taliban should jointly unveil the enemy.
It would seem that Haq is following his own advice here, because in the aftermath of Monday's attack on the court in Islamabad, Haq had said this:
The government and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) should not blame each other for any attack and should look for "the third enemy," stated Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Samiul Haq (JUI-S) chief Maulana Samiul Haq while talking to the media in Islamabad.
So on Monday it appears that Haq called on Pakistan to identify the "third enemy" and then today he stated that the US, India and Afghanistan fill that role.
I had missed it in the immediate aftermath of Monday's attack, but Imran Khan did not wait to identify the US as the enemy of peace in Pakistan:
Imran Khan, chief of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, said on Monday that some elements, including the United States, were against peace in the country and an operation in Waziristan region was not in favour of Pakistan, DawnNews reported.
I'm guessing that John Brennan's drone trigger finger is getting very itchy about now and that he is looking into how he can break the current lull in US drone strikes. Especially considering that the DOJ has now been asked to investigate CIA spying on Senate Inteligence Committee staff computers and Brennan's known history of using drone strikes in Pakistan as a political retaliation tool, I don't see how he can keep himself in check any longer.
Ken Dilanian has a very interesting article in the Los Angeles Times outlining the latest failure in Congress' attempts to exert oversight over drones. Senator Carl Levin had the reasonable idea of calling a joint closed session of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence Committees so that the details of consolidating drone functions under the Pentagon (and helping the CIA to lose at least one of its paramilitary functions) could be smoothed out. In the end, "smooth" didn't happen:
An effort by a powerful U.S. senator to broaden congressional oversight of lethal drone strikes overseas fell apart last week after the White House refused to expand the number of lawmakers briefed on covert CIA operations, according to senior U.S. officials.
Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who chairs the Armed Services Committee, held a joint classified hearing Thursday with the Senate Intelligence Committee on CIA and military drone strikes against suspected terrorists.
But the White House did not allow CIA officials to attend, so military counter-terrorism commanders testified on their own.
But perhaps the White House was merely retaliating for an earlier slight from Congress:
In May, the White House said it would seek to gradually move armed drone operations to the Pentagon. But lawmakers added a provision to the defense spending bill in December that cut off funds for that purpose, although it allows planning to continue.
Dilanian parrots the usual framing of CIA vs JSOC on drone targeting:
Levin thought it made sense for both committees to share a briefing from generals and CIA officials, officials said. He was eager to dispel the notion, they said, that CIA drone operators were more precise and less prone to error than those in the military.
The reality is that targeting in both the CIA and JSOC drone programs is deeply flawed, and the flaws lead directly to civilian deaths. I have noted many times (for example see here and here and here) when John Brennan-directed drone strikes (either when he had control of strike targeting as Obama's assassination czar at the White House or after taking over the CIA and taking drone responsibility with him) reeked of political retaliation rather than being logically aimed at high value targets. But those examples pale in comparison to Brennan's "not a bake sale" strike that killed 40 civilians immediately after Raymond Davis' release or his personal intervention in the peace talks between Pakistan and the TTP. JSOC, on the other hand, has input from the Defense Intelligence Agency, which, as Marcy has noted, has its own style when it comes to "facts". On top of that, we have the disclosure from Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald earlier this week that JSOC will target individual mobile phone SIM cards rather than people for strikes, without confirming that the phone is in possession of the target at the time of the strike. The flaws inherent in both of these approaches lead to civilian deaths that fuel creation of even more terrorists among the survivors.
Dilanian doesn't note that the current move by the White House to consolidate drones at the Pentagon is the opposite of what took place about a year before Brennan took over the CIA, when his group at the White House took over some control of JSOC targeting decisions, at least with regard to signature strikes in Yemen.
In the end, though, it's hard to see how getting all drone functions within the Pentagon and under Senate Armed Services Committee oversight will improve anything. Admittedly, the Senate Intelligence Committee is responsible for the spectacular failure of NSA oversight and has lacked the courage to release its thorough torture investigation report, but Armed Services oversees a bloated Pentagon that can't even pass an audit (pdf). In the end, it seems to me that this entire pissing match between Congress and the White House is over which committee(s) will ultimately be blamed for failing oversight of drones.
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Update February 14: Khan has been freed! The Express Tribune reports that he was beaten and tortured, but is now free after being blindfolded and pushed out of a van.
In a very interesting development, Al Jazeera is reporting that disappeared drone activist Karim Khan had planned to testify before the International Criminal Court in The Hague on his trip to Europe which had been planned to begin on February 15. Khan was abducted from his home on February 5 and it is widely believed that Pakistan's intelligence service was behind the abduction.
Khan made a very dramatic entrance into the world of drone activism in November of 2010, when he sued the US for $500 million after his son and brother were killed in a drone strike in their home village of Mir Ali in North Waziristan. In the lawsuit, Khan named the Islamabad CIA station chief:
A North Waziristan tribesman, whose brother and teenage son were killed in a drone strike last year, said on Monday that he would sue all those US officials supposedly in control of the predator's operations in Pakistan.
Karim Khan, a local journalist from Mirali town of the lawless tribal district, had sent a $500 million claim for damages to the US Defence Secretary Robert Gates, CIA chief Leon Panetta and its station head in Islamabad Jonathan Banks.
Khan described how Banks' activities lead to the deaths of innocent civilians:
He told journalists that CIA Islamabad's chief Jonathan Banks buys information from his local agents in the area to guide the drone strike.
However, he added that this information is wrong and misleading in most occasions causing the deaths of many innocent tribesmen.
Khan's attorney throughout this process has been Shahzad Akbar. Akbar also represents Noor Khan, whose case in the Peshawar High Court resulted in the ruling that US drone strikes within Pakistan are illegal and constitute war crimes.
The fact that Akbar has gotten this ruling seems to me to add significance to the Al Jazeera report, which appears to cite Akbar as the source of the disclosure that Khan was to testify at the ICC:
A Pakistani court has ordered the country's intelligence agencies to produce a prominent anti-drone campaigner, who was abducted last week, by February 20, or to categorically state that they are not holding him, the activist's lawyers say.
Speaking to Al Jazeera on Wednesday, Shehzad Akbar, the head of Karim Khan's legal team, called Khan's abduction from his Rawalpindi home late on February 5 "a signature government abduction", alleging that Pakistan's powerful intelligence agencies were responsible for the disappearance.
Khan had been due to fly to Europe on February 15, on a trip that would see him testify before members of the European Parliament in Brussels, UK legislators in London and the International Criminal Court in The Hague, on the US' use of drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas.
The court which issued the ruling for the ISI to present Khan was the Lahore High Court:
Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench on Wednesday issued notices to security agencies to submit their reply in a case related to disappearance of an anti-drone activist as it ordered to present the man at the next hearing.
LHC Justice Shehzad Ahmad Khan was hearing a plea filed by the family of Karim Khan, who went missing a few days back.
During the proceedings, the police denied their involvement in the disappearance. "Khan was picked up by persons wearing police uniform but he is not in our custody," the police report claimed.
On this, the court sought reply from all intelligence agencies and ordered them to present Khan on February 20, the next date of hearing.
But the court had actually called for Khan to be produced yesterday, as well: Continue reading
After a cancelled meeting earlier in the week, peace talks between Pakistan's government and the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a Taliban group that has been carrying out terrorist attacks against targets inside Pakistan, have gotten underway. Although Reuters reported that the meeting was in an undisclosed Islamabad location and Dawn reported that the meeting was in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa House in Islamabad, it appears that both stories have elements of truth. From the Express Tribune:
The meeting of government and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) peace talks committees started at an undisclosed location in Islamabad at 2:24pm on Thursday, Express News reported.
The meeting later shifted to Pakhtunkhwa House.
The Dawn story reports that there was a "cordial atmosphere", but adds another very important point:
Sources said that talks were being held in a cordial atmosphere and that negotiations would now be continued on a daily basis.
With daily meetings planned, it sounds like the talks could be more than a mere formality.
Returning to the Dawn story, we have the line-up of negotiators for each side:
The government's negotiators include Irfan Siddiqui, special assistant to the prime minister and coordinator of the committee, Rustam Shah Mohmand, a former Pakistan ambassador to Afghanistan, Peshawar-based journalist Rahimullah Yousufzai and retired Major Amir Khan.
Negotiators from the TTP's side include Maulana Samiul Haq, Maulana Abdul Aziz and Professor Mohammad Ibrahim.
The TTP had initially also nominated Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan and former Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) lawmaker Mufti Kifayatullah in their committee. However, both later refused to be part of the committee.
Although none of the stories point it out, I find it very interesting that at least part of today's discussions were held at Khyber Pakhtunkhwa House. Even though Imran Khan declined to be a part of the negotiating team for the TTP, recall that his PTI party controls the government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. After a bit more poking around, I found this version of an AFP story on the meetings that has a photo of the outside of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa House. Note the emblem on the gate in the photo. It clearly is the emblem of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and not of Pakistan's government (see here), suggesting that Khan's provincial government may well be playing the role of a host or facilitator for the talks. There also appears to be a restaurant in Islamabad with the name Khyber Pakhtunkhwa House, but the AFP photo appears to rule out the restaurant.
An official speaking to Reuters also added to the importance of the meetings:
"The progress of the talks will be submitted to the prime minister," the government official, who declined to be named, as he is not authorized to comment on progress of the talks, told Reuters.
Recall that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had the establishment peace talks with the Taliban as one of his main campaign promises. Note also that Imran Khan made ending US drone strikes one his main campaign issues. With Sharif monitoring the talks and Khan providing a venue (at least for today), it then becomes very interesting that the spokesperson for Pakistan's Foreign Office today said that the announced US slowdown on drone strikes is not enough. She stated that the strikes have to end altogether. Although Sharif's government has called for an end to drone strikes several times in the past, reiterating it today could well be important in the context of the talks and Khan's potential role as a mediator of sorts.
It seems that Mike Rogers lately is aiming to take over the Emptywheel blog. When he's not yapping about criminalizing journalism or dissembling about Congressional briefings on the Patriot Act renewal, he's putting out bloodthirsty endorsements of drone violence. When we last heard from him on the drone front, he was joining the mad rush to come up with the most damning indictment of Hakimullah Mehsud after the US disrupted Pakistan's plans to start peace talks the very next day with a Taliban group headed by Mehsud. Yesterday, Rogers used a hearing of his House Intelligence Committee as a venue in which to pitch a tantrum over the US daring to adjust its drone policy, leading to fewer strikes.
Now, almost exactly three months after the Mehsud drone strike, we see the prospect for peace talks between Pakistan and the Taliban disrupted again. As I mentioned yesterday, Taliban negotiators fear that Pakistan's government may be planning to scuttle the talks in order to launch an offensive against the Taliban in tribal areas, which might also play into a desire by Sharif's government to be in line for counterterrorism funds which the US might not be spending in Afghanistan.
The Washington Post has Rogers' tirade. First, there is news of a pause in drone strikes in Pakistan:
The Obama administration has sharply curtailed drone strikes in Pakistan after a request from the government there for restraint as it pursues peace talks with the Pakistani Taliban, according to U.S. officials.
"That's what they asked for, and we didn't tell them no," one U.S. official said. The administration indicated that it will still carry out strikes against senior al-Qaeda targets, if they become available, and move to thwart any direct, imminent threat to U.S. persons.
Concern about Pakistani political sensitivities provides one explanation for the absence of strikes since December, the longest pause in the CIA's drone campaign since a six-week lull in 2011, after an errant U.S. air assault killed 24 Pakistani soldiers at a border post, triggering a diplomatic crisis.
Oooh, look! There's Marcy's favorite word again, "imminent". But this lull in drone strikes, coupled with the explanation offered in the Post, tells us that no suitable al Qaeda targets with credible plans against the US presented themselves in Pakistan's tribal areas for over a month. That didn't deter Rogers; he's upset that any potential targets aren't blasted immediately: Continue reading
Yesterday, I speculated on whether Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was turning his back on his campaign promise of peace talks with the Taliban so that he could seek US counterterrorism funds suddenly not being used in Afghanistan. Today's New York Times joins me in pointing out the key role of counterterrorism in an important US-Pakistan meeting in Washington today:
Secretary of State John Kerry is to meet Pakistan's foreign and national security policy adviser, Sartaj Aziz, here on Monday, and counterterrorism operations are to be a major subject of discussion, a senior State Department official said Sunday.
The Times article, however, centers on a key piece of context that I hadn't brought into yesterday's speculation. The growing likelihood that all US troops will be forced to withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of this year in the absence of a signed Bilateral Security Agreement means that the US needs a new home for its drones:
The risk that President Obama may be forced to pull all American troops out of Afghanistan by the end of the year has set off concerns inside the American intelligence agencies that they could lose their air bases used for drone strikes against Al Qaeda in Pakistan and for responding to a nuclear crisis in the region.
The concern has become serious enough that the Obama administration has organized a team of intelligence, military and policy specialists to devise alternatives to mitigate the damage if a final security deal cannot be struck with the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, who has declined to enact an agreement that American officials thought was completed last year.
If Mr. Obama ultimately withdrew all American troops from Afghanistan, the C.I.A.'s drone bases in the country would have to be closed, according to administration officials, because it could no longer be protected.
Oh, the horrors of it all! Who can bear the tragedy of all those poor, homeless drones, wandering around the world with no base close enough for a rapid trip inside the borders of a sovereign nation that has stated in no uncertain terms that it considers drone strikes to be illegal and to be war crimes?
The Times article reminds us that the US once used a base inside Pakistan for drone flights:
Their base inside Pakistan was closed after a shooting involving a C.I.A. security contractor, Raymond Davis, and the raid into Pakistani territory that killed Osama bin Laden, both in 2011.
That bit simplifies the Shamsi Air Base story a bit. While it is true that Pakistan stated that they were kicking the US off the base in June of 2011, not very long after the Osama bin Laden raid (and a bit longer after the Raymond Davis fiasco), the US didn't actually leave the base until December, after the US killed 24 Pakistani troops at a border station.
So it would seem to me that in today's talks with Aziz, Kerry will be dangling a couple billion dollars that will be Pakistan's for the taking, but only if they meet two conditions. Condition one will be to continue Sharif's new-found enthusiasm for attacking militant groups and condition two will be to re-open Shamsi air base for the US to continue drone operations.
Should such an agreement come to pass, it would completely invalidate the elections that Pakistan held last May, in which Pakistan for the very first time experienced a peaceful transition from one elected government to another. One of Sharif's main campaign points was the establishment of peace talks with the Taliban. He now is carrying out military actions against them instead. Imran Khan, who came in second in the election, campaigned on a pledge to end US drone strikes. Opening a base inside Pakistan for US drones would render votes cast for Khan meaningless.
Perhaps the only solace that the US would be able to offer Pakistan should they agree to re-open Shamsi to drones would be that after the formal US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the base in Shamsi would almost certainly be used by the US to violate Afghanistan's sovereignty on a regular basis, just as the US has been doing lately to Pakistan from Afghanistan.
The past three days have seen a number of major attacks between Pakistan's Taliban, known as the TTP, and Pakistan's military. On Sunday, a bomb exploded in a van transporting Pakistani troops, killing 20. This attack took place in Bannu (Bannu will return to this story in a moment). On Monday, a suicide bomber killed 13 just a few meters from the outside wall of the General Headquarters of the Pakistani Army in Rawilpindi. Today, Pakistani jets killed at least 24 with bombs dropped in North Waziristan.
It appears that in the Sunday attack, the bomb was in a vehicle rented for transporting troops:
"The explosion took place in a civil Hiace van inside Bannu Parade Ground at 8:45 am," a senior military official told The Express Tribune. The blast occurred just as Frontier Corps (FC) troops had stepped into the van ahead of their departure.
"The K-P paramilitary unit had rented a vehicle from the market for movement of its troops," he added. The vehicle was supposed to carry the soldiers to Razmak, a town in North Waziristan Agency.
"It wasn't immediately known whether it was a suicide bombing or the device was detonated through a remote control," he added. "The van driver was also killed in the blast."
The suicide bomber in Monday's attack was first seen on a bicycle:
District Coordination Officer Sajid Zafar Dall said that at the time of the attack a gaggle of children were heading to school. "Our initial assessment is that the bomber was possibly on a bicycle and he then approached the target on foot," he added. Since it was morning time, RA Bazaar was bustling with office-goers and schoolchildren.
Quoting eyewitnesses, Sardar Zulfikar, the SHO of RA Bazaar police station, said the bomber was walking towards the GHQ but detonated the explosive vest the moment he saw army troops at RA Bazaar's main roundabout, T-Chowk. The building of National Logistics Cell is located nearby.
The RA Bazaar is considered a high security zone due to its proximity with the GHQ. Police investigators believe the bomber intended to target the military headquarters. However, he couldn't get to his target due to the tight security.
Today's bombing by the Pakistani Air Force appears to be in response to these attacks:
Several suspected militant hideouts were trampled by Pakistan's military's fighter jets in Mir Ali area of the North Waziristan, killing at least 24 persons and wounding 15 more, various local news channels reported on Tuesday.
The air strike followed a series of terrorist attacks across Pakistan in the past week, including Monday's blast on a check post in Rawalpindi that martyred 6 army personnel and 7 civilians. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan had claimed the responsibility for the attack. The events had led to a mounting pressure on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to take tougher decisions in response to the recent attacks by TTP.
"This hadn't been planned before, and Pakistan Air Force jets were called to hit hideouts of the militants involved in attacks on security forces," said one military official speaking on condition of anonymity.
It appears that the operations by Pakistani forces are continuing in several locations in North Waziristan.
At least one key TTP figure killed in today's bombing has been identified. He has a very interesting history: Continue reading
Yesterday, we got the tremendous news that after having lead the world in the number of polio cases as recently as 2009, the World Health Organization announced that there have been zero polio cases in India for three consecutive years. In today's Express Tribune, we see a discussion of whether and how Pakistan can now rise to the challenge of polio eradication. In the article, we learn that the US drone killing of Pakistan Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud not only disrupted the developing plans for peace talks between the Taliban and Pakistan's government, but it also affected polio vaccinations in North and South Waziristan:
According to the State Minister for National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Saira Afzal Tarrar, NWA and South Waziristan did not receive any immunisation in months, contrary to former North Waziristan Agency (NWA) surgeon Jan Mir Khan, who was part of recent polio efforts. "After the drone strike that killed Hakimullah, it all stopped. Not just the peace talks, but also our efforts," she says.
The terrible impact of the CIA's vaccination ruse employing Dr. Shakeel Afridi in the search for Osama bin Laden has been extensively documented here, but this is the first time I have seen a suggestion that backlash to a drone strike directly resulted in polio vaccines being denied to children. Tarrar is not ready to give up, however, and believes that Pakistan and the Taliban will eventually come to an agreement that will allow vaccinations to resume:
Saira Tarrar also emphasised that the people of the area need to be part of the solution. "Parents are now sick of the ban; this pressurises the Taliban."
"There is an accessibility problem in Fata, but by 2014, we will get a bargain and get some access." And access is key, as far as Elias Durray, the head of Polio Eradication at the World Health Organization in Pakistan is concerned. "Immunisation prevents circulation. The virus won't vanish on its own."
Let us hope that Pakistan can achieve full vaccine coverage and have polio disappear as quickly in Pakistan as it did in India. Of course, this will require the US actually letting peace negotiations between the Taliban and Pakistan come to fruition, so success is far from guaranteed.
The United States, mostly with John Brennan raining down drones, has been determined to see that neither Afghanistan nor Pakistan enters into peace talks with the Taliban. Recall that in early October, the US snatched Latif Mehsud from Afghan intelligence after they had spent months trying to convince him to help them initiate peace talks. Then, on November 2, the US killed Hakimullah Mehsud, just one day before he was to join peace talks with Pakistan. And with momentum gathering again for peace talks, Brennan even strayed outside the tribal areas of Pakistan in a botched attempt to kill Sirajuddin Haqqani, but still managed to kill a senior fundraiser for the Haqqani network.
Today, showing nearly infinite patience, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is making a new effort to get the peace talks started. He has chosen to publicly announce that he has appointed a representative to contact the Taliban and work with them to get talks started. From the Express Tribune:
In his attempt to revive the process of peace talks with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its affiliates, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif asked Samiul Haq to help in bringing the militant groups to the negotiation table, Express News reported on Tuesday.
Nawaz met the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Samiul Haq group (JUI-S) chief today for a one-on-one meeting at the Prime Minister House.
Talks with the Taliban was the main issue on the agenda and Haq assured the prime minister that he will use his influence to ensure the peace process progresses in the right direction.
Nawaz has been personally meeting various political and religious leaders in order to kick start the negotiation process with the militants.
Haq clearly knows who has been disrupting the previous attempts to get talks started. From Dawn:
The JUI-S chief told the prime minister that every time the government planned to talk peace with the militants, foreign powers tried to sabotage the process.
And just who might those foreign powers be? Especially the ones with the drones? From Geo News:
Talking to Geo News, Maulana Samiul Haq said that he met the prime minister on his request. He said to the best of his ability he would try to help resolve this issue and added that the core issue was to stall the drone attacks.
US should understand that talks with Taliban were in the interest Pakistan as well as regional peace. He said when we get ready, foreign pressures do not allow us to proceed. Thousands of Pakistanis have been martyred in the war, which is not ours, he said. He demanded that the losses incurred in North Waziristan be compensated and advised the PM to revisit the foreign policy of Pakistan.
Haq is to be congratulated for his courage in taking on the difficult task of starting the peace process. He knows what has happened to previous individuals who tried to get the process started and so he knows that he is taking on this assignment under great personal risk. After all, who can doubt that if Brennan does take out Haq with a drone, this description of Haq from the Express Tribune article linked above will be broadcast everywhere:
Samiul Haq is nicknamed the 'Father of the Taliban' and runs a madrassa where several Taliban leaders were educated.
I would think that while trying to start the peace talk process, Haq should stay well away from that particular madrassa.
Haq seems to be putting Brennan on notice with his public statement about foreign powers disrupting peace talks. By announcing Haq's role and releasing photos of Haq visiting with him, Sharif appears to be putting Haq under whatever protection Pakistan's government can afford him. The ball is clearly in Brennan's court now and today is Terror Tuesday He can allow the peace process to start, or he can put Haq at the top of his list and drone for war once again.
Last week, I noted that the US had a perfect excuse for ending its drone strikes that are a long-running violation of Pakistan's sovereignty because Pakistan had engaged in military action in North Waziristan to kill a number of TTP militants after a TTP suicide attack had killed Pakistani soldiers. The same pivotal town in North Waziristan where last week's events were centered, Miranshah, made the headlines again on Christmas Day, as Barack Obama and John Brennan could not resist demonstrating to the world that the US is not a peaceful nation. A drone fired two missiles into a home near Miranshah, killing four "militants". Those killed are widely believed to have been members of the Haqqani network (Pakistan and the Haqqani network do not attack one another the way Pakistan and the TTP do), but there are no reports of senior leaders being involved, so this may well have been a signature strike rather than a strike aimed at a particular high level militant. On Christmas. Pakistan's government protested the strike as a violation of sovereignty, yet again.
Yes, those targeted by the US in the Pakistan-Afghanistan region are all Muslims who don't celebrate Christmas, but there has often been a tradition in wars of ceasefires on religious holidays. There was a magical ceasefire on Christmas in World War I. Although the concept was rejected this year, there have been Ramadan ceasefires, both in Afghanistan and even in the skirmishes between Pakistan and the TTP.
Somehow, in thinking on the evil embodied by this act of death and destruction on the day on which Christians celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace, I came across this terrific post that centers on a particularly apt passage from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. As pointed out in the post, the passage is spoken by Marc Anthony just after the assassination of Julius Caesar:
Blood and destruction shall be so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war;
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.
The post I linked addresses the famous phrase "Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war" and should be read in its entirety. But the larger passage reads almost as if Shakespeare has foreseen the situation of a long-running period of drone attacks, especially when the drones carry Hellfire missiles. In Pakistan, "dreadful objects so familiar" have resulted in widespread PTSD among the residents who must live under the constant buzz of drones flying overhead.
Marc Anthony speaks of the attacks being out of revenge, and revenge has been a motivator for this and other strikes in Pakistan.
Shakespeare very nearly hit on the Hellfire name. Obama and Brennan would do well, though, to study up on the particular mythological figure that Shakespeare invokes with his mention of who comes "hot from hell". A quick search gives us this on Ate:
ATE was the spirit (daimona) of delusion, infatuation, blind folly, rash action and reckless impulse who led men down the path to ruin.
How can the rash action and blind folly of repeated drone strikes lead to anything other than ruin for Obama and Brennan? Let us hope that they don't drag the rest of us down with them.
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