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Is Pakistan's ISI (Inter-Service Intelligence) the bin Laden group or are they connected with the Pak government in any way?

Sounds like we are taking a side trip to the Pakistani border...

In answer to your question, the ISI essentially made the TALIBAN. The fact that the U.S. has made an ally of the very people who sponsored the movement we are ostensibly at war with says alot about the leadership of our State Dept.

DEBKA is listed by Forbes Magazine as one of the"Best of the Web", providing information that is not controlled by either side and thus disliked by both. There is no other viable explanaion where these thousands of al Qaeda disappeared to. They were supposed to be surrounded on all sides. It is suicide to head north into enemy territory in Uzbekistan and any way that many people could easily be spotted from the air. The uprising at the fort in Mazar el Sharif is highly suspicious. Why do you take prisoners without frisking them and then put them into a fort fortified with a major weapons cache unless you were tempting them to take over the fort and expected them to. For two days this battle for the fort served as a distraction to everyone with their eyes on Konduz. It was intended that way. If we wanted to our planes could have bombed it into oblivion in a matter of hours. Instead a strategy was implemented to take it back over a period of two days while our AWACS allowed aerial evacuation of the remaining al Qaeda. This is the only plausible explanation for their disappearance. Not only does it eliminate a bloodbath for U.N. and international media to harp relentlessly upon but it also saves face for Musharraf. This was part of the deal no doubt over the surrender of Konduz. The U.S. is probably getting a chance to interrogate these al Queda wherever they are right now -- quietly and secretly without the media's prying eyes. The U.S. has always said that it is opposed to the al Quedans in Konduz going free -- but just because they got on planes out of Konduz does not mean that they are free. Some may be talking and others sweating if they were taken to bases controlled by our military interrogators. But if any of these evacuees show up again against our boys in uniform down around Kandahar, the only word for it is "treachery".

I cannot say what the truth really is, for I am not there, but I have every reason to believe that the Pakistani military has been in connection with the Taleban, so nothing of this nature would surprise me.