[KayEyeDoubleDee]

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

Yes and No. The ISI is the official Pakistan intelligence. They have been supporters of the Taliban. Most people think they know where Bin Laden is most of the time. Apparently they have much more radical leanings/interests than the more-moderate Pakistani president.

My understanding is taht the ISI really spearheaded all the training, etc during the Afghan war and we mostly just supplied the money and hardware. The ISI actually determined where and to whom it would go.

Feel free to correct the above generalizations as you see fit...

[codebreaker]

No wonder the Government denying this so heavily, if extremist elements of the Pakistani Goverment are running covert ops and trying to start a war to destablize Pakistan.

Sounds like Rummy isn't taking the bait.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Apparently they have much more radical leanings/interests than the more-moderate Pakistani president.

Well, factions in ISI do. And other factions don't. One of the more fundamentalist ISI guys wrote a book about his experiences supporting the resistance against the Russians, it is accurate in places and nonsense in others.

Check here: Afghan Books by Brigadier Mohammed Yousaf.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F