Direct links between the Pakistani spy service and an Al-Qaeda group. Surprise, surprise.
"C.I.A. Outlines Pakistan Links With Militants," by Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt for the New York Times, July 30 (thanks to all who sent this in):
WASHINGTON — A top Central Intelligence Agency official traveled secretly to Islamabad this month to confront Pakistan’s most senior officials with new information about ties between the country’s powerful spy service and militants operating in Pakistan’s tribal areas, according to American military and intelligence officials.The C.I.A. emissary presented evidence showing that members of the spy service had deepened their ties with some militant groups that were responsible for a surge of violence in Afghanistan, possibly including the suicide bombing this month of the Indian Embassy in Kabul, the officials said.
The decision to confront Pakistan with what the officials described as a new C.I.A. assessment of the spy service’s activities seemed to be the bluntest American warning to Pakistan since shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks about the ties between the spy service and Islamic militants.
The C.I.A. assessment specifically points to links between members of the spy service, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, and the militant network led by Maulavi Jalaluddin Haqqani, which American officials believe maintains close ties to senior figures of Al Qaeda in Pakistan’s tribal areas....
Read it all.
Here's hoping that this will actually come to something. No more hand-wringing and squirming in the face of such bare-faced lies and lack of cooperation. Pull all funding, actively assist India to send a message.
Pakistan is NOT our friend.
Cut all aid to Pakistan.
Simple.
Finally they have woken up !!
"Cut all aid to Pakistan.
Simple.
Posted by: S Perry"
Wishful thinking.
Knowing the trend, there will be even more money wasted on Pakistan.
Ever wondered how much of that money is passed straight on to the Taliban by our friend and ally?
well one dot is connected, but the main super dot is
its islam stupid!
pr126 is right. What? A problem in Pakistan? Throw more and more and yet more money at it, maybe it will go away.
.. the mother of Taliban and International Terror, Pakistan is Bush's ally in the phony war on terror. With allies like Pakistan, who needs terorists? But coming to the subject, as I have noted elsewhere, the roots of Jihad are deep in Pakistan, going back as far as 1999, when Indian Airlines flight IC 814 was hijacked: http://www.indianembassy.org/archive/IC_814.htm
to release Sheikh Omar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Omar_Saeed_Sheikh of http://www.harkatulmujahideen.org/ and went on to kidnap Daniel Pearl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pearl later beheaded by KSM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_Sheikh_Mohammed
The same Omar sheikh went on to finance 9/11 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Muhammad_Ahmad
Talk about taking Jihad International.
Ofcourse, Bush, being in Saudi pockets, gladly took Pakistan as the other ally, thus providing American arms, aid, blood and lives to the same wolves who devouvered 3000 Americans within hours on 9/11, not that any of this affects anything within or outside of the Bush administration/family, re-elected in 2004.
Why should the American government be spending, have spent or committed, nearly two trillion dollars to bring "good government" to Iraq? Why should it have spent $65 billion on the malevolent government of Egypt? Why did American taxpayers pay, not only for that Mercedes 600 that so impressed him with its "smooth ride," the one that son-of-plucky-little-king-Hussein King Abdullah of Jordan picked him up in, but also for billions of dollars in aid to Jordan, with a population said to be possibly the most fervently anti-American in the world, where to take advantage of untariffed textiles it can send to America, Jordan's Arabs -- divided between the "
Eastern Palestinians" who are called "Jordanians" and the "Western Palestinian Eastern Palestinians" who are called "Palestinians" -- own factories where non-Arabs are employed and exploited, in what American labor investigators have called the "worst" labor conditions, amounting in many cases to slavery, they have ever seen. Why does the American government continue to fund the Fatah warlords, those Slow Jihadists who are still, nominally, in control of their fellow Arabs in the Arab-occupied "West Bank"? And why is it the American government (with a little help from other NATO states) that is, and has come to be expected to, to lavish further tens of billions on the permanently meretricious and malevolent -- generals or rabble-rousing zamindars, it hardly matters -- government of Pakistan.
And why does this money, once it starts to flow -- to Egypt, to Jordan, to "the Palestinians," to Pakistan -- come so quickly to be regarded as received, as by right, and given, as by necessity or duty, to that all Western or Infidel aid, whenever given, for whatever ostensible purpose, becomes that dutiful tribute that the Infidel donors are afraid -- afraid! -- to cut, for fear of offending those (look at Egypt, look at "the Palestinians") who have come to expect that tribute from the Infidels to be paid. There is not a single example, anywhere, of a serious and permanent diminishment, or still better, ending of such aid -- aid that helps improve the military capacity of the Muslim recipients (could Pakistan have paid for its nuclear project without Western aid to sustain it?), and that, when it is non-military aid, merely frees up other money that can be diverted to support whatever local Jihads that recipient-state or regime is most directly involved in furthering.
And most maddening of all, that Infidel aid --- given by Infidel states even as they must endure paying ever greater sums to the oil-producing Muslims who share, with their fellow Muslims, almost nothing of the trillions they take in (and are quite content to see the Infidels pick up the Infidel Man's Burden) -- becomes routine, unequestioned, a veritable matter of right, something that, once the Infidels start to supply it, they have to keep supplying it, and the Muslims who receive this aid do so not without any felt gratitude, but with the sense that this Infidel aid is in the natural and just order of things, which for them, in the deepest sense, it is.
Five-part National-Geographic series on Pakistan's role in the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flt. IC 814, on Christmas Eve, 1999:
Part I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4DQEyKxb7M
Part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z74XtyzfVn8&feature=related
Part III: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bSGfCxaZl4&feature=related
Part IV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcSnuj6MhAc
Part V: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQzQPJAsCBw
Was the decision to release three dangerous Pakistani terrorists, who later found Jaish-e-Mohammed, that attacked Indian Parliament, the right one?
Well.. watch Bush's "ally", whose other "ally" is "Saudi Arabia", in "war-on-terror" at the epicenter of International terror, for yourself.
Well, "surprises" just keep coming for those who are in charge of American war of terror. But most unfortunate fact is that what is most obvious fact for any south asian high school child, ar any adult of the world having access to internet, reveals itself as a surprise to American "intelligence" after costing lives of hundreds of brave humans (and disabiling thousands of others)fighting this insanity at the frontlines and, untold misery for civiliand worldwide and billions of dollars to American taxpayers, and many apt opportunities of checking this menace.
Did someone finally do an Internet search using "Pakistan, ISI, Taliban"? Maybe we should hire a group of sixth graders or typing monkeys to replace the CIA?
To answer Hugh's question, even though he already knows the answer, is that ignorance without disruption is bliss. We let our politicians do whatever they like without questioning their reasoning, we let the sociologists tell us that the cure for violence is better environment, and we let people do whatever they like without suffering the consequences of their actions.
So as a result, we don't hold the Muslim world accountable for their actions, give more money to alleviate the conditions that, we are told, cause the violence, and let politicians lie to us and to themselves, even when the cause and effect are directly visible.
In short, as long as we have personal peace and prosperity, we will continue in ignorance and let the world spiral into violence.
And after listening to Obama's German speech, if he is elected, the nations that have will be sharing much more with the nations that don't have.
So if we don't elect John McCain (I just threw up in my mouth a little bit) the jizya will be much worse. If we elect John McCain (urp) the jizya will be at least as much if not more.
What to do, what to do.
Is there any one in Washington with the intelligence (by intelligence I don't mean the CIA) to see the threat for what it is, and the balls to do something about it?
Well there is "The 'Stache" John Bolton, but the Senate won't confirm him for a cabinet position.
Unless everyone in America votes non-incumbent, maybe then. . .
Unless everyone in America votes non-incumbent, maybe then. . .
Posted by: walterc at July 30, 2008 6:30 PM
Vote for Ron Paul. Other than the 9/11 conspiracy, he is a patriot.
Besides, you will be able to look yourself in the mirror AND have done your civic duty.
Thanks tot he pathetic sell-out candidates, Ron Paul is America's best bet today.