Posted on 02/23/2011 7:35:12 PM PST by NormsRevenge
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistan's ISI spy agency is ready to split with the CIA because of frustration over what it calls heavy-handed pressure and its anger over what it believes is a covert U.S. operation involving hundreds of contract spies, according to an internal document obtained by The Associated Press and interviews with U.S. and Pakistani officials.
Such a move could seriously damage the U.S war effort in Afghanistan, limit a program targeting al-Qaida insurgents along the Pakistan frontier, and restrict Washington's access to information in the nuclear-armed country.
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Does it bother ANYONE that our young soldiers are sitting ducks in the middle of an Islamofascist nest?
It is unlikely that you could use a big strapping white man for a spy in Pakistan. It is like a Polar Bear walking the streets of NY. He had a specific job assignment and it wasn’t covert.
LOL, bet you have never been there, and the cia says he was. Oh, I lived there for uncle Sam years ago, fifteen months, the place is the a hole of the world.
That is what happened. Our guy had no idea the two guys he shot were ISI agents shadowing him. The situation screamed ambush and he reacted like he was trained. Given the ISI, he might have been right too, not that the ISI would admit it.
Had to have been, other wise a couple of grand and the whole thing would be under the rug.
Maybe it’s time for a strategic withdrawal from Afghanistan, or rather, partitioning it into a relatively peaceful independent country of Daristan, where a variety of Persian is spoken and the Northern Alliance was successfully anti-Taliban even before September 11th, and a rump-Afghanistan or Pashtunistan, where Pashtun is spoken by the general population and most of the Taliban, and where we’d still need to be engaged.
See what the ISI thinks about that and their game-playing with us, with almost half of Punjabi-dominated Pakistan ethnically Pashtun. I’d foresee more cooperation with us when they imagine what our total withdrawal without completely subduing Pashtun militants first would do to their own country.
The ISI might be our biggest problem. On the one hand, I say call a spade a spade and deal with them as adversaries. On the other hand, we need access to their sea ports to move the very heavy stuff through to Afghanistan. I think Musharaf, as the former General, commanded more ISI loyalty than the current guy. Even the Pakistani civilian govt is scared of the ISI, kinda like all those presidents were of Hoover at the FBI - but much worse.
The ISI leaks information to Bin Laden and Al Queda—that’s why his camps are always empty when he attack...
yup insanity
Pakistan’s intelligence (ISI) ready to split with CIA...?
Good. At last. Who needs enemies, with allies like this.
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