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| Pakistan breaches trust, names local CIA boss | |
| 2011-05-08 | |
Amid bitter, recriminatory exchanges between the United States and Pakistan over the Osama bin Laden extermination, planned bilateral visits of President Asif Ali Zardari to Washington DC and a return trip of President Barack Obama to Islamabad are both in jeopardy. Ties between the two sides are expected to slide further following Pakistan's "outing" of the CIA station chief in Islamabad on Saturday.
A Pakistani TV channel and a newspaper considered mouthpieces of the country's military said the ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha had met CIA station chief Mark Carlton to protest US incursion into Abbottabad to kill al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden. CIA station chiefs remain anonymous and unnamed in public although the host government is told. Earlier, the Obama administration had asked Pakistan to disclose names of its top intelligence operatives to determine whether they had contact with Osama or his agents. The latest breach indicates that a section of the Pakistani military-intelligence establishment is determined to run the CIA out of the country fearing that the ISI's links with terror groups and its sheltering of terrorist leaders will be exposed. There is also growing realization in Washington that the military junta fully controls Pakistan and it rather pointless to publicly engage a weak civilian government that cannot deliver on promises. And in a further embarrassment for the ISI, it now transpires that Osama lived in village just off the town of Haripur on the Abbottabad Highway for 2-1/2 years before he moved into the new compound. That would make it at least 7-1/2 years that he lived close to urban settlements. | |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #6 IMO the worst-case scenarios as per a total US-PAK breakdown in relations would be ... > PAK covertly giving advanced NUKE-WMDS MILTECHS to the MilTerrs Groups for use in TerrOps. > PAK UNILATER INITIATES REGIONAL NUCLEAR? WAR AGZ INDIA, which will involve Pak's "big brother" = Ally + BFF CHINA. To wit, * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > PAKISTAN TROOPS ALONG LOC PUT ON HIGH ALERT. Face-off agz INDIA. India = Indjuh has repor NOT responded in kind vee putting its LOC forces on alert. * SAME > PAKISTAN DARES INDIA TO BREACH BORDERS. * SAME > WW3, IRAN, PAKISTAN, + NUCLEAR TERRORISM. * SAME > PAKISTAN SEEKS SOLACE IN THE KREMLIN. Zardari to visit Dimitri [Vlad?] in Moscow. ARTIC = Moscow would benefit from closer RUSSO-PAK RELATIONS via having an "inside track" to US [ + in lessor China's] goings-on in AFPAK, RUSSIA WOULD LIKE TAIJIKISTAN TO ALLOW IT TO PLACE 3000 ARMED BORDER GUARDS ON TAIJIK'S BORDERS WID AFGHANISTAN. * SAME > BIN LADEN RAID: ARMED PAK ARMY UNITS REACHED ABBOTTABAD COMPOUND 15 MINUTES AFTER US SEALS DEPARTED. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-05-09 00:06 |
| #5 Kill Gul NOW! |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2011-05-08 11:20 |
| #4 I agree - time for some ISI deaths. How many ISAF deaths are blood on ISI hands, even if indirectly? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-05-08 08:27 |
| #3 It's a bit more than that, I think. The ISI and CIA have been in a pretty deadly contest which has been heating up for a while - c.f. Raymond Davis but also a series of outings/attacks on people who were identified to the Pakistani government as CIA-affiliated. The ISI has an advantage in that it has only one objective: get the US out of the country. |
| Posted by: lotp 2011-05-08 07:46 |
| #2 Amid bitter, Meaningless |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-05-08 01:34 |
| #1 We need to start killing ISI operatives. Now. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2011-05-08 00:49 |