The U.S. government might be concerned about the leaking of secret operational data in Pakistan. And the U.S. government might not be too pleased that Pakistan has reportedly arrested informants who aided the CIA before the raid of Osama bin Laden’s compound.
But there’s little doubt that, despite those differences, the U.S. military still supplies the Pakistani military with new, sophisticated intelligence collection and communications equipment.
The Army Communications and Electronics Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground recently put out a notice signaling that it may need contractors to train members of the Pakistani military on how to use a new “Ground Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (GISR) system.”
If we speculate that the bush administration knew where osama was, but at the same time did not want to lose these information sources. Then Obama took the low hanging fruit and as a result, these informants will probably be killed. And we will no longer have these back channel assets. The conflict that will result here is going to be a blood bath.
How long until Pakistan gets its replacement P-3s they lost when the Taliban overran their Naval base.