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| Terror Networks |
| Pearl Case; ISI against Omar Sheikh extradition |
| 2002-02-25 |
American investigators also want to know more about the week Sheikh spent being questioned by unidentified Pakistani officials at a secret location in Lahore. Sheikh originally surrendered to Brig Ejaz Hussain Shah, the former head of Pakistan's intelligence service, on February 5, a week before he was officially handed over. There are suspicions that he may have been briefed by Pakistani intelligence agents on how much to reveal to police after his subsequent arrest. Throughout his interrogation, Sheikh has appeared remarkably confident that he would be released, as well as aggressive and unapologetic. I wonder if it's only in Jammu and Kashmir that ISI has its tentacles? These boys have been accused in some fairly unlikely places. I'd guess they're in even more places, and nobody's said anything because they don't expect them that far afield. Places like Indonesia and the Philippines, where there have been hints, and maybe a few networks in Uzbekistan and Tadjikistan - and Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan? Wonder what their relationship is with Saddam's Mukhabarat? And Jund-e-Islami? At least at the muckety-muck level they seem more like a secret society than an intel service, and they seem to entrench themselves pretty comfortably in the upper echelons of Pak society even when "sacked." Hamid Gul doesn't appear to be in any kind of financial trouble, and Ejaz Hussain Shah's the Punjab Home Secretary. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |