Pakistan 'supported Kabul embassy attack' - Mike Mullen

BBC ^

[jhpigott]

9/21/11

The most senior US military officer has accused Pakistan's spy agency of supporting the Haqqani group in planning and conducting last week's attack on the US embassy in Kabul.

"The Haqqani network... acts as a veritable arm of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency," Adm Mike Mullen told a Senate panel. In July he said Pakistan sanctioned the killing of journalist Saleem Shahzad.

Pakistan's government called that statement "irresponsible".

Pakistani officials have consistently denied links with militant groups.

'Credible intelligence'

At least 25 people died during the 20-hour attack on the US embassy, Nato headquarters and police buildings in Kabul on 22 September. The dead included 11 civilians, among them children, along with at least four police and 10 insurgents.

"With ISI support, Haqqani operatives planned and conducted a truck bomb attack, as well as the assault on our embassy," said Adm Mullen, who steps down this month as chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.

"We also have credible intelligence that they were behind the 28 June attack against the Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul and a host of other smaller but effective operations."

[XenaLee]

Pakistan is no friend of the USA. They’re lying now, just as they lied then, when they claimed they had ‘no idea’ that Osama Bin Laden was just living in a special compound just yards away from a military base there.

Riiiight!

[exit82]

The Joint Chiefs are not going to do dick about Obama, nor should they. That remains our job as voters. Period.

Yeah, that would be the hallmark of a banana republic, which is, well, what we are rapidly becoming.

I hope we get the chance to right the wrong with an election in 2012, and that Obama and his fellow crooks leave quietly. We are looking more and more like Germany in 1933. Add in a financial collapse, and the recipe is not good, indeed.

[Alas Babylon!]

Indeed. Act of War, if you ask me.

[blam]

Where can I vote for you?

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Although, A.Q Khan's nuclear gunrunning supply chain was very much in full swing during Benazir Bhutto."

Okay, I may have been wrong about them actually going nuclear on her watch. However, you admit I was right on the second part. She knew about the program to go nuclear. Which was my point. She was not perfect, but we're not looking for perfect in Pakistan. Just a reliable partner and I believe she would have been one.

[ravager]

You are still wrong. The Taliban was created and they came into power in Afghanistan under her watch. And lets for a moment assume that she is most reliable .... you are still forgetting the most importing thing. She is a civilian. In Pakistan it is the Army and ISI that is the “establishment”. They control everything. There is no way around it. In fact Bhutto's party the PPP is currently in power and her husband Asif Ali Zardari is the President. Even that of little consequence. They cant go against the will of the Army and stay in power for even a single day.

[ravager]

And if Bhutto/Zardari cannot go against the wishes of the Army then your contention that somehow they would still make a reliable partner is just plain wishful thinking.

[af_vet_rr]

Watch for US/Pakistani relationships to blow up. It was only a matter of time anyhow.

If their intelligence agency is assisting in attacks on US embassies, then any relationships are a charade.

[af_vet_rr]

In fact, Pakistan is on the verge of becoming an enemy backed by China. We have made the mistake of thinking we can make nice with countries that really are our enemies.

If you think they haven't been backed by China or working against us before this year, you haven't been paying attention.

[Truth29]

"Somebody needs to tell Barky to turn off ESPN and start listening to his briefings."

I think he knows. This is an Islamist terrorist state that is attacking US interests with little MSM coverage of their involvement. Imam Obama will not only do nothing to assist the US, but by ignoring the problem strengthen the terrorists.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"You are still wrong. The Taliban was created and they came into power in Afghanistan under her watch."

When did I ever say that didn't happen? You love to say I'm wrong, even for things I never said. You know, Clinton was the President when the Taliban was created. Perhaps we should blame him also. I'm not going to blame Bhutto for what transpired in Afghanistan during her watch. You're still a knucklehead...

[ravager]

You know, your problem is you have your facts all wrong, you always misread my posts and then draw the wrong conclusions. And when I correct you, you start throwing insults.

There is a huge difference between Clinton's role in emergence of Taliban and that of Bhutto. Bhutto was an active participant in the creation of Taliban (and Al Qaeda gaining grounds in Afghanistan and Pakistan). That in itself puts a huge question mark on her reliability. If you still don't get it then maybe you need to get your head examined. I am done explaining to an idiot like you.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"You know, your problem is you have your facts all wrong, you always misread my posts and then draw the wrong conclusions. And when I correct you, you start throwing insults."

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!! You said I was wrong and then went on to say that Bhutto was prime minister when the taliban was created. I never mentioned that one way or the other!!!!! So how can I be wrong about it??? That's why you're a knucklehead!

[ravager]

The reason I mentioned Bhutto with regards to Taliban was to make a point about her reliability, regardless of what you mentioned or didnt (not that you have much to say anyways except for silly nonsense). Apparently you still don't get it. As for the knucklehead comment... you are absolutely right. Pot calling the kettle black.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

At least Moscow does it right.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8782370/Kremlin-hit-squad-assassinate-Chechen-Islamist-in-Istanbul.html

[Sal]

One of our top military officials accuses Pakistani intel services behing behind an attack on a U.S. embassay. That's a rather serious accusation.

And he made it shortly after another top military official says that the WH tried to co-opt his testimony on LightSquared's danger to military (and civilian) GPS.

Personally, I doubt Hussein gave the Okay for the Pakistani accusation. JMO.

[Sal]

I hope we get the chance to right the wrong with an election in 2012, and that Obama and his fellow crooks leave quietly. We are looking more and more like Germany in 1933. Add in a financial collapse, and the recipe is not good, indeed.

It's a similar enough path (plan?) to make a person wonder if someone's deliberately repeating the successful rise to power of the Nazi dictatorship, right down to the re-creation of the brown-shirts (labor leaders exhorting their members and somebody sending out social network invitations to violent flash mobs not to mention the 80,000 muslims Hussein gave sanctuary to...).

It's even possible that the front man for this path (plan?) worked with the original Nazis when he was young and wants to see its completion before he dies.

The financial collapse is certainly being worked on now via the Fed's repeated applications of fiscal destruction that always have the opposite effect of their STATED goals. The big violence will come when the financial destruction is complete and we're getting damn close. IMO.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"The reason I mentioned Bhutto with regards to Taliban was to make a point about her reliability, regardless of what you mentioned or didnt"

Well knucklehead, before mentioning it, you said I was wrong about it. Even though you admit I never talked about it. So I guess you were the one wrong. As for me not having much to say, it's strange how you are always responding to my posts and I have never responded to one of your original posts. So I guess it is you who have nothing to say worth reading.

[ravager]

No mister retard, that is not what I said you were wrong about. You mentioned Bhutto as being reliable ...and.... I MENTIONED TALIBAN TO MAKE A POINT ABOUT HER UNRELIABILITY. However since you are too dense to comprehend basic English,so might as well let it go. You will never get it. Parroting the same garbage isn’t going to help.

[liberalh8ter]

And we didn’t even pull their foreign aid yet. Wonder if the worthless idiots in DC will finally do the right thing and cut them off.