U.S. confronts Pakistan on links to militants: report

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 7/29/08 | Paul Eckert

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top Central Intelligence Agency official traveled to Islamabad and confronted senior officials with evidence of ties between Pakistan's spy agency and militants operating in that country's tribal areas, the New York Times reported in Wednesday editions.

The CIA envoy presented information linking members of Pakistan's Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) with some militant groups responsible for a string of attacks including the suicide bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul this month which killed 58 people, the newspaper said.

The report, based on accounts by U.S. military and intelligence officials, described the decision to confront Pakistan over ISI's activities as the bluntest warning to Islamabad since shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

It was published a day after Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani visited the White House and made a commitment to U.S. President George W. Bush to secure Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.

The New York Times said the CIA assessment specifically raised links between ISI members and the militant network led by Maulavi Jalaluddin Haqqani, believed by the U.S. intelligence community to have close ties to senior al Qaeda figures in Pakistan's tribal areas.

The Haqqani network and other militants operating in the tribal areas along Pakistan's Afghan border are thought to be behind increasingly deadly attacks inside Afghanistan, the newspaper said.

[SevenMinusOne]

Lots of comments 'on the record' (which is a change) by Paki sources and high-ranking officials of late......Demanding U.S. action within their borders stop....This is called massaging the masses...of their own domestic audience.... That question is why?

To allow themselves distance from a big event they see happening in the near future??.....And that big event is??

[ASA Vet]

Another MI Paki Ping

[Saberwielder]

Seven years and several American troops’ lives later ...

[BIGLOOK]

Gotta put a major check on that report from the NY Times, Bob. Wasn't Obama the one who wants to stir up Pakistan, implicate them in abetting the terrorists and Taliban who have sanctuary in the tribal areas of the Hindu Kush and create a logistical snafu for our forces in Afghanistan? And who does the NYT support in the race for the presidency?

[ASA Vet]

Jack, Here's my new bumper sticker.
It replaced my "Run Hillary Run" sticker which I had on the front bumper.

[BIGLOOK]

This article and the rest of the news about the ISI is suspiciously timed with the visit by the Paki PM to the White House. The Times is in Obama’s camp; probably in Osama’s too.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

More mysteries:

Pakistan: Security forces raid abandoned

Because nothing of Haggani was found....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See link at #8 .....

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest. Fun graphic, ASA Vet.

C.I.A. Outlines Pakistan Links With Militants
New York Times
Posted on 07/29/2008 7:49:08 PM PDT by milestogo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053463/posts

Pakistan: Security forces raid abandoned
The News | 7/30/2008 | Mushtaq Yusufzai
Posted on 07/30/2008 9:26:26 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053744/posts

[snip] raided a madrassa run by well-known Afghan mujahideen and Taliban commander, Maulvi Jalaluddin Haqqani [end]

[Marine_Uncle]

The Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence agency is probably so full of people sympathetic to the call of jihad that it is going to take a long time to weed out all the malcontents. And I am sure many in the regular service arms and other Intel groups fit into the same sack.
I believe cleaning up Pakistan is going to take a long time. It is perhaps the breadbasket of radical Islam equal to the most stringent madras found in Saudi Arabia.
Will the southern part of Pakistan where the educated and more moderate people live have the will to stand behind their government in going after so many tribes in the northern portions. We are looking at literally millions of people within the tribal groups in the FATA. And obviously the whole border is huge and very remote from a geographic standpoint.
I don't think the Paki are up to the task at hand quite frankly.

[Marine_Uncle]

I assume you may be thinking about some very involved US air campaigns being orchestrated within Pakistan by the CVN72 CBG now stationed off Karachi along with long range Air Force assets.

[sukhoi-30mki]

The ISI is no independent organisation-it’s a part of the military (Inter-SERVICES).If you need to clean them up,start with the military.Only problem is that the military has always been seen as US friendly.