CIA Cites Pakistan Spy Agency's Ties to Militants

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Source: ABC News/AP


Report: CIA Confronted Pakistan Officials About Its Spy Agency's Deepening Ties to Militants

The CIA has confronted senior Pakistani officials with evidence showing that members of the country's spy service have deepened their ties with some militant groups responsible for a surge of violence in Afghanistan, possibly including the suicide bombing this month of the Indian Embassy in Kabul, The New York Times reported.

A top CIA official traveled to Islamabad this month with new information about ties between Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency and militants operating in Pakistan's tribal areas, the newspaper said on its Web site late Tuesday. Its sources were American military and intelligence officials it did not identify.

The Times said the CIA assessment pointed to links between the ISI and the militant network led by Jalaluddin Haqqani, which American officials believe maintains close ties to senior figures of al-Qaida in Pakistan's tribal areas.

The CIA has depended heavily on the ISI for information about militants in Pakistan despite long-standing concerns about divided loyalties within the Pakistani spy service, which had close relations with the Taliban in Afghanistan before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

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[EFerrari]

1. And that's why sending 10K more troops to Afghanistan will not work. n/t

[jaybeat]

2. Another one for the "No shit, Sherlock!" file

Especially since the CIA helped CREATE the "close ties" between the ISI, the Taliban and al-Qaida to fight the Soviets for us. Pakistan was THE conduit for US support for the jihadists.

The MSM and the CIA must take us for complete fools with no memory. Unfortunately, most people are, I suspect...

BUT, we have a newfangled thing called the Internets. Let's see... Oh, honey, look what I found!

http://www.historycommons.org/project.jsp?project=911_project

Yes, Virginia, the same people in the US who want us to wage endless war CREATED the enemy they want us to fight. Nice business model!

[varun]

3. duh...

[libodem]

4. Even I know that

Duh.