New challenge for U.S.-Pakistan ties

The Washington Post ^ | June 10, 2011 | Griff Witte and Karen DeYoung

[CharlyFord]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Twice in recent weeks, the United States provided Pakistan with the specific locations of insurgent bomb-making factories, only to see the militants learn their cover had been blown and vacate the sites before military action could be taken, according to U.S. and Pakistani officials.

Overhead surveillance video and other information was given to Pakistani officials in mid-May, officials said, as part of a trust-building effort by the Obama administration after the killing of Osama bin Laden in a U.S. raid early last month. But Pakistani military units that arrived at the sites in the tribal areas of North and South Waziristan on June 4 found them abandoned

U.S. officials say they do not know how the operation was compromised. But they are concerned that either the information was inadvertently leaked inside Pakistan or insurgents were warned directly by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, or ISI.

[CharlyFord]

Maybe, if we give them more foreign aid, they'll be our friends and stop killing us? Or, we could send Joe Bite-Me over to negotiate a deal or something!

[flowerplough]

U.S.-Pakistan ties?

What ties? Cold war’s over. Don’t need the Pakiwalla counterbalance ‘gainst Soviet-leaning India anymore, does we?

[Mind-numbed Robot]

We should go back to the old plan. Wipe out the sites and then tell the government what we did. Whether this administration will is doubtful.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks CharlyFord.

Twice in recent weeks, the United States provided Pakistan with the specific locations of insurgent bomb-making factories, only to see the militants learn their cover had been blown and vacate the sites before military action could be taken

We know where the ISI headquarters is.