Posted on 03/14/2003 1:26:12 PM PST by Honorable
US worried over ISI leaking information on Osama
PTI[ FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 2003 08:20:55 PM ]
WASHINGTON: As the hunt for Osama bin Laden expanded to include the rugged northern region near Peshawar, US officials are 'concerned' that Pakistan's ISI is leaking information to the al-Qaeda terror network about pending raids on his suspected hideouts, media reported on Friday.
Senator Richard Lugar, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and its ranking Democrat Senator Joseph Biden, expresed concerns about ISI's renewed help to Taliban and al Qaeda activists seeking to infiltrate Afghanistan to destabilise the regime of Pesident Hamid Karzai, The Washington Times reported.
The two Senators added that they believed the ISI was carrying on this activity without the knowledge of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.
US intelligence officials have long tied Pakistan's intelligence agency Inter-Service Intelligence to al Qaeda and the Taliban as also to fundamentalist parties, the daily said.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the third ranking leader in the al Qaeda, was captured in a house owned by Ahmed Abdul Qaboos, a member of Jamaat-e-Islami, which holds the third largest voting bloc in Pakistan's Parliament, it added.
The hunt for Osama was focused over the past two weeks on the isolated mountains of southwestern Paksitan.
But, keeping an eye on the ISI is extremely important. It's doubtful that all the bad guys in that agency have been successfully purged.
Here ya go - www.oblhasbeencaptured.com ;>)
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