Posted on 07/29/2008 7:46:32 PM PDT by milestogo
C.I.A. Outlines Pakistan Links With Militants By MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC SCHMITT
WASHINGTON — A top Central Intelligence Agency official traveled secretly to Islamabad this month to confront Pakistan’s most senior officials with new information about ties between the country’s powerful spy service and militants operating in Pakistan’s tribal areas, according to American military and intelligence officials.
The C.I.A. emissary presented evidence showing that members of the spy service had deepened their ties with some militant groups that were responsible for a surge of violence in Afghanistan, possibly including the suicide bombing this month of the Indian Embassy in Kabul, the officials said.
The decision to confront Pakistan with what the officials described as a new C.I.A. assessment of the spy service’s activities seemed to be the bluntest American warning to Pakistan since shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks about the ties between the spy service and Islamic militants.
The C.I.A. assessment specifically points to links between members of the spy service, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, and the militant network led by Maulavi Jalaluddin Haqqani, which American officials believe maintains close ties to senior figures of Al Qaeda in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
The C.I.A. has depended heavily on the ISI for information about militants in Pakistan, despite longstanding concerns about divided loyalties within the Pakistani spy service, which had close relations with the Taliban in Afghanistan before the Sept. 11 attacks.
That ISI officers have maintained important ties to anti-American militants has been the subject of previous reports in The New York Times. But the C.I.A. and the Bush administration have generally sought to avoid criticism of Pakistan, which they regard as a crucial ally in the fight against terrorism.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
WOT ping.
Hmmmm...
The sun DOES rise in the east
I recommend it be given in 2,000 lb increments from 35,000 feet every hour on the hour courtesy of the US Air Force until Bin Ladens head is delivered to the American Embassy on a platter.
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Jalaluddin Haqqani is an Al Qaeda associated terrorist and is perhaps responsible for most of the coalition casualties in the Eastern sector of Afghanistan.
Pakistani officials openly admitted once that he was on the payroll of the ISI.
The fact that it took the deaths of so many Americans for this administration to finally call the Pakistanis on their double dealing military is matter of shame.
Yes, Pakistan has nukes and we have secret ops going on there occasionally. But if another 9/11 were to occur and trails lead back to Pakistan, no person in this administration will be able to answer the question - "Why did it take so many more American lives for you to do what you promised to do after 9/11/2001?"
I hope that now with no re-election worries and a stabilizing Iraq, Bush brings back some of his post 9/11 mojo and finish the job he promised he'd do after the ragheads rammed the planes into the buildings.
We've bought the Pakistani snake oil for seven years. Let's cast that aside and bring in some good ole fashioned American steel into that area. I still have faith in Dubya to take care of his unfinished business. -end rant>
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The C.I.A. assessment specifically points to links between members of the spy service, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, and the militant network led by Maulavi Jalaluddin Haqqani, which American officials believe maintains close ties to senior figures of Al Qaeda in Pakistan's tribal areas.Since it's the NY Times, and the article names Maulavi Jalaluddin Haqqani, I have to wonder if this is more treason afoot, an attempt to screw up US intelligence gathering and counterterrorism efforts. But anyway...
http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=126987
When several hundred troops and air cover move on a building we got us a BIG STORY...they even had a US DRONE overhead flying overwatch....something big just went down.
After 9 pm, armed Pashtu-speaking youths take to the streets of middle-class Gulshan-i-Iqbal and search vehicles. In the Pashtun slums of Banaras, any person wearing modern trousers and shirts is beaten up. Political leaders in the city, including elected representatives of the Muttehida Quami Movement (MQM), call it “Talibanization”.
MQM member parliament Dr Farooq Sattar said in an interview, “Elements who were forced out from the Waziristans and other tribal areas took refuge in Karachi, where they settled on empty land, mostly at the northern and southern entry routes of the city. The city is virtually under siege from these elements.”
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JG30Df01.html
This situation is totally snafu at best. I am sure even before Musshy was dethroned our people fully realized how bad the situation was. The FATA has been what it is for a long time, to name one of the key problems.
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