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To: Brad from Tennessee
Let's be honest. Did anyone ever really believe the ISI was not in the Taliban's pocket?
3 posted on 06/06/2013 4:10:57 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard
From Wikipedia:

The Taliban were largely founded by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in 1994.[15][62][63][64][65][66][67][68] The ISI used the Taliban to establish a regime in Afghanistan which would be favorable to Pakistan, as they were trying to gain strategic depth.[38][69][70][71] Since the creation of the Taliban, the ISI and the Pakistani military have given financial, logistical and military support.[16][72][73][74]

According to Pakistani Afghanistan expert Ahmed Rashid, “between 1994 and 1999, an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 Pakistanis trained and fought in Afghanistan” on the side of the Taliban.[75] Peter Tomsen stated that up until 9/11 Pakistani military and ISI officers along with thousands of regular Pakistani armed forces personnel had been involved in the fighting in Afghanistan.[76]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban

9 posted on 06/06/2013 4:46:44 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

I think it’s the opposite. The Taliban works for the ISI. One of the things I never understood about Musharraf was he that he didn’t purge the ISI while their stooges made over 200 attempts to kill him.


14 posted on 06/06/2013 5:41:28 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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