Posted on 07/25/2010 3:05:33 PM PDT by Steelfish
Pakistan Spy Service Aids Insurgents, Reports Assert MARK MAZZETTI, JANE PERLEZ, ERIC SCHMITT and ANDREW W. LEHREN July 25, 2010
Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harbored strong suspicions that Pakistan’s military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington for its help combating the militants, according to a trove of secret military field reports to be made public Sunday.
The documents, to be made available by an organization called WikiLeaks, suggest that Pakistan, an ostensible ally of the United States, allows representatives of its spy service to meet directly with the Taliban in secret strategy sessions to organize networks of militant groups that fight against American soldiers in Afghanistan, and even hatch plots to assassinate Afghan leaders.
Taken together, the reports indicate that American soldiers on the ground are inundated with accounts of a network of Pakistani assets and collaborators that runs from the Pakistani tribal belt along the Afghan border, through southern Afghanistan, and all the way to the capital, Kabul.
Much of the information — raw intelligence and threat assessments gathered from the field in Afghanistan— cannot be verified and likely comes from sources aligned with Afghan intelligence, which considers Pakistan an enemy, and paid informants. Some describe plots for attacks that do not appear to have taken place.
But many of the reports rely on sources that the military rated as reliable.
While current and former American officials interviewed could not corroborate individual reports, they said that the portrait of the spy agency’s collaboration with the Afghan insurgency was broadly consistent with other classified intelligence.
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If they keep releasing stuff like this, I might actually start to like WikiLeaks. I know that the purpose is bad, intended to put an end to the war on terror. But the treachery of the Pakistani intelligence service really is a fact of life that we need to deal with.
I think Bush walked a tightrope, and managed to keep the lid on Pakistan, by making it clear that they would pay a huge penalty if they went too far with this sort of betrayal, but Obama certainly has no such ability or even intention. His sympathies are with the enemy. And his nose needs to be held to the grindstone.
The only surprise here would be if the Obama Administration is NOT aiding them with American taxpayer dollars.
I should add that I’m not talking about the whole release of secrets, much of which is going to be damaging, but this particular angle—that Pakistani intelligence is taking our money and using it to support the Taliban.
Don’t you just love when the NYSlimes reports something that everyone knew five years ago.
I should add that I’m not talking about the whole release of secrets, much of which is going to be damaging, but this particular angle—that Pakistani intelligence is taking our money and using it to support the Taliban.
Bush managed to control and limit the damage, but Obama certainly is incapable of doing that.
It is not just Paki ISI, it is the entire gov’t top to bottom. I have been writing about this ever since Pres Zardari (Bhutto’s hubby, whose nickname is mr. 10% for the amount of money he skims for himself from foreign aid) took over.
Obama TRIPLED aid to Pakistan over what Bush was giving them. $7.5 billion for 5 years of pretending to battle Al Qaeda and letting Barry launch a few missles from drones is not a bad gig. Pres Zardari did not get the name Mr. 10% when his wife Benazir Bhutto was running Pakistan for nothing. He skimmed 10% off all gov’t contracts and foreign aid he could. Thusly, when he and Benazir fled Pakistan, they holed up in their multi-million $ digs in London.
The whole Afghan/Pak strategy is a rat hole of corruption, and our brave military men are paying the price. I don’t often agree with the libs on MSNBC, but one of them this morning stated the obvious, that Afghan/Pak is a cesspool of tribalism and it can be managed, but not ever won. With billions of American $ literally being flown out of Kabul to gulf and Swiss banks weekly, it is obvious we are being scammed. The Paki’s know if they defeat Al Qaeda and the Paki Taliban, the money spigot is shut off. The Afghans know the same. Both have a vested FINANCIAL interest in keeping the USA bogged down over there. Not only that, a lot of American firms are making cash hand over fist promoting the terrorism angle, and servicing the troops over there. The Wash Post article today illustrates just a small part of the corruption which is taking place in our own national defense establishment. Add that to the Afghan/Paki corruption and we are sending good money after bad.
Obama and the State Dept certainly knew of,
condoned, and supported this. They are traitors over and
over and over and over.
Mr. Megrahi, please pick up the Green Courtesy Phone.
Hidden hand?
Paki military intel created the Taliban.
Whatever. The Paks have been abusing this relationship for 35 years.
They continuously loot our aid to line their own pockets.
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