Posted on 07/25/2010 6:29:49 PM PDT by mainsail that
Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harbored strong suspicions that Pakistan’s military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington for its help combating the militants, according to a trove of secret military field reports to be made public Sunday.
The documents, to be made available by an organization called WikiLeaks, suggest that Pakistan, an ostensible ally of the United States, allows representatives of its spy service to meet directly with the Talibanin secret strategy sessions to organize networks of militant groups that fight against American soldiers in Afghanistan, and even hatch plots to assassinate Afghan leaders.
Taken together, the reports indicate that American soldiers on the ground are inundated with accounts of a network of Pakistani assets and collaborators that runs from the Pakistani tribal belt along the Afghan border, through southern Afghanistan, and all the way to the capital, Kabul.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Wow! I am shocked. It is painfully obvious that our intelligence community has plunged to the bottom of the sea. There needs to be a major house cleaning, as well as a strategy session on how future operations are going to be protected. The biggest problem with our agency is fear of political backlash, and possible criminal convictions. This is a HUGE kick in the gut for every American that is serving in the military or civil service capacity. Whoever this “mole” is needs to be found, tried, and executed swiftly.
BTTT
Adding to my last post, it seems the only thing we can count on now is a tactical nuclear attack on Pakistan by India. India probably had the clout to do it after the Mumbai attacks, but we probably waived them off.
:duh:
IdiotNYT just getting around to figuring this *hit out?!
Please shut your doors already, kkthx. =.=
Nothing new at all. This leaker is known, and arrested, if I’m not very mistaken.
Can the CIA do anything about this Assange guy who runs wikileaks? He doesn’t fall under the “foreign leader” category.
Why is any one shocked by this news?
Pakistan’s ISI was the “Godfather” behind creation of Taliban in the first place.
Any dad will always lookout for their progeny. Unless he is a “bad dad”.
ISI is just trying to be a good daddy.
Not exactly a revelation - we were reading about the ISI on FR years ago.
“Can the CIA do anything about this Assange guy who runs wikileaks? He doesn’t fall under the “foreign leader” category.”
He’s part of the press so he is kinda safe from CIA but I can’t imagine a Russian or an Middle eastern agency having such constraints.
What a big surprise? Not to anyone who knows anything about Pakistan.
The documents perhaps. With what I understand:
Pakistan fears Pashtunistan, now they’re just ‘devout Muslims’ and tribal customs are replaced with Islamic ones.
India and wants to use the Talibs against India if need be. Imagine a million fanatics on your side ready to die
Thats what we should do. India would love to roll over Pakistan. India is peaceful nation and knows that Pakistan is corrupt.
We need to get India into this...
The agencies won't do anything. And wikileaks is distributed and mirrored, and difficult to get at. I just downloaded the whole heap, in three different formats. 16 megs each. Seems wikileaks is pretty much swamped with traffic.
From NYT:
“one report describes an ISI plan to use a remote-controlled bomb disguised as a golden Koran to assassinate Afghan government officials.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/world/asia/26isi.html
Can we expect demonstrations in the Arab countries as ISI was planning to destroy the Koran?
I found a comment by Barron Laycock that is worth repeating:
“At the risk of repeating myself, we were warned by historians such as John Keegan in the fall of 2001 that the only rational policy toward an incursion into Afghanistan was “to jump in, kill the bad guys, and get out”. we did the first, then Mr Bush faltered when he had the Taliban and Al Quaida cornered at Bora Bora in December 2001 and stood down for 96 hours at the request of Pakistani security who wanted to “get their people out”. As a result the remaining Al Quaida and Taliban forces were allowed to escape, some on the same planes that came in to carry off Pakistani operatives. Then we decided to engage in democracy building. so by violating the second and third elements of Keegan’s sage advice, we deliberately chose to get mired in an extended land war in Asia. Again! This has be mentioned again and again, it seems, to help remind people why we are where we are in terms of the conflict. It is not going to get any better. We need to fold up our tents and let the Afghans work it out on their own.”
But, I do not fully agree with him, no withdrawal now.
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