The evidence included video footage of jihadists evacuating a bomb-making facility after they were apparently alerted by elements within Pakistani intelligence about a planned raid. By the time Pakistani troops arrived, the facilities were empty. "CIA chief confronts Pak over collusion with militants," from the Press Trust of India, June 11 (thanks to Sanjay):
Islamabad/Washington: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief Leon Panetta has confronted Pakistan's military leadership with evidence of collusion between militants and security officials in the country, causing fresh strains in the troubled US-Pak ties.
Panetta, who arrived in Islamabad yesterday, presented the evidence during meetings with Pakistan army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) head Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha late last night, media reports said today.
The CIA had passed intelligence in the past few weeks to its Pakistani counterparts on two facilities where militants made Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) but when Pakistani forces raided the facilities, the militants had disappeared, the reports said.
Panetta showed Pasha "satellite and other intelligence that the CIA believes is evidence of Pakistani security's efforts to help Islamic militants based in Pakistan," ABC News quoted US and Pakistani officials as saying.
The CIA chief shared with the Pakistani Generals a "10-minute edited video that shows the militants evacuating two bomb factories in Waziristan," Time magazine quoted its sources as saying in a report on its website. [...]
During his meetings, Panetta conveyed the CIA's belief that the militants had been warned by Pakistani security officials prior to the raids, ABC News reported.
Panetta travelled to Islamabad just hours after his Congressional hearing to become Secretary of Defence, a trip that US officials described as a way to "discuss ways to improve cooperation".
However, his visit expected to be his last as CIA chief "underscored the lack of trust that US officials continue to have in their Pakistani counterparts," ABC News said.
Since the killing of Osama bin Laden in a US raid in Abbottabad on May 2, the US has urged Pakistan to take "decisive steps" to crack down on militants and handed over a list of five top terrorists, including Ayman al-Zawahiri and Ilyas Kashmiri, that it wants Islamabad to apprehend or kill.
That would explain the quick turnaround and subsequent controversy over whether Kashmiri is still alive or not. One way or another, Pakistan needs to look like it is taking action.
US and Pakistani officials admitted that the escape of militants from the bomb-making facilities was a "setback," ABC News reported.
Pakistani officials made a "rare admission that some kind of collusion was possible."
"There is a suspicion that perhaps there was a tip-off...It's being looked into by our people, and certainly anybody involved will be taken to task," a senior unnamed Pakistani official told the Washington Post.
Referring to efforts to revive intelligence cooperation between Pakistan and the US, another American official told The Washington Post: "We are willing to share, but you have to prove you will act. Some of your people are no longer fully under your control."...
I don't hope the US government is quite as incompetent as it appears.
The Pakistanis seem quite adept at keeping the $$ flowing to the country's ruling classes. Proof that they are colluding with the enemies of the US is but a minor set-back.
The fool here appears to be Mr. Pancetta, actually believing that evidence makes any difference at all. OK, so now the Pakistanis know that you know that they collaborate with the Taleban. So what?
In fact, I trust the US Government is not incompetent. Well, at least not in the CIA... Getting Pakistan to act in accordance with US interests is surely not an easy job...
"There is a suspicion that perhaps there was a tip-off...It's being looked into by our people, and certainly anybody involved will be taken to task," a senior unnamed Pakistani official told the Washington Post.
Translation: "when we've found some suitably placed low-ranking pawn who can be scapegoated, we will seriously abuse him and declare we've have taken rigorous action to root out the mole... you will accept it, because you want to... and our high ranking jihad-collaborators will continue as before. Oh, and by the way America, don't forget to keep paying the jizya, there's a good dhimmi."
The core values of the Pakistani Army are:
Iman, taqwa, and jihad fi sabilallah
http://www.pakistanarmy.gov.pk/AWPReview/TextContent.aspx?pId=17&rnd=108
Jihad fi sabil allah, of course, is violent jihad, and has been around since Muhammad picked up a sword and started killing people to spread his delusions.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are ungovernable political entities that we should be working to divide into smaller pieces: Pashtunia, Sindh, Baluchistan, Punjab, and whatever's left of Afghanistan that can't be absorbed by other neighbors.
"Rebuilding" Afghanistan is a wasted effort. Pakistan is a national security threat. Give them incentives to slaughter each other rather than to focus on us. Worshipping death has a price, let them pay it.
The Indians can worry about the rest....
The core values of the Pakistani Army are:
Iman, taqwa, and jihad fi sabilallah
http://www.pakistanarmy.gov.pk/AWPReview/TextContent.aspx?pId=17&rnd=108
Jihad fi sabil allah, of course, is violent jihad, and has been around since Muhammad picked up a sword and started killing people to spread his delusions.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are ungovernable political entities that we should be working to divide into smaller pieces: Pashtunia, Sindh, Baluchistan, Punjab, and whatever's left of Afghanistan that can't be absorbed by other neighbors.
"Rebuilding" Afghanistan is a wasted effort. Pakistan is a national security threat. It threatens freedom of speech in global fora, has spread nuclear weapons technology far and wide (including, according to The Day of Islam author, al-Qaeda), and has no interest in a stable Afghanistan. Why waste trillions of dollars, much of it borrowed from China, when a few hundred million and no body bags will suffice.
Give them incentives to slaughter each other rather than to focus on us. Worshipping death has a price, let them pay it.
The Indians can worry about the rest....
'...and certainly anybody involved will be taken to task," a senior unnamed Pakistani official told the Washington Post.'
Will the punishment be at least as harsh as insulting the dead founder of Islam, Mohammed?
Will it be as harsh as an uncovered woman's punishment?
Will it be as harsh as the punishment of music shopkeepers or singers or actresses?
Thanks for the reassurance, Ahmed. Liar.
From the article:
"... and certainly anybody involved will be taken to task."
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Does this mean we get to shoot more of their kind on their territory, or does it mean what we think it means - more jizya, more obsfuscation, more blatant muslim lies, more collusion, blah, blah, blah?
This muslim stooge, like so many others, is a barbarian and idiot. Don't take his words to be anything but the errant hiss of a cobra...
Does the evidence make it true, or was it a fact anyway?
The Pakistanis will simply shrug it off. They know that the West is impotent, because as a failed Islamic state owning nuclear weapons, the greatest threat they have against the civilised world is to go even further backwards.
In other words, business as usual.