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Robert Spencer in FrontPage Mag: Face the Truth: Pakistan Is Not An Ally

Mar 22, 2014 1:23 pm By Robert Spencer

SharifObamaThey knew where bin Laden was. For years. It is now known that the head of Pakistan’s notorious spy service, the ISI, knew where Osama was all along. And in this FrontPage article I explain more that shows that they’re actually on the other side:

Journalist Carlotta Gall, who reported from Afghanistan for the New York Times for twelve years, reported Wednesday that

“soon after the Navy SEAL raid on Bin Laden’s house, a Pakistani official told me that the United States had direct evidence that the ISI chief, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, knew of Bin Laden’s presence in Abbottabad. The information came from a senior United States official, and I guessed that the Americans had intercepted a phone call of Pasha’s or one about him in the days after the raid. ‘He knew of Osama’s whereabouts, yes,’ the Pakistani official told me. The official was surprised to learn this and said the Americans were even more so.”

He shouldn’t have been. It has been obvious for years that the Pakistanis have been aiding the same jihadists that the U.S. government has been giving them billions of dollars to fight. The New York Times reported on that at length back in 2008. And now we learn that not only did Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the head of the Pakistani government’s spy service, knew the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, but also that so did many other top officials in the Pakistani government.

Those who are genuinely surprised by this news probably also think that Islam is a Religion of Peace that has been hijacked by a Tiny Minority of Extremists. After all, this is the country where the jihad terror leader Hafiz Saeed, on whom the U.S. has placed a $10 million bounty, lives openly and comfortably. International Business Times reported in early March that Saeed “lives as a free man in Lahore,” even though he is “chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JUD), a parent organisation of banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET). The organization was implicated in the 2008 attacks on Mumbai in India, which claimed 166 lives.” Not only that, but “Pakistan had twice placed Saeed under house arrest since 2001, but had let him go under suspicious circumstances.” And today, “JUD operates quite visibly in parts of Pakistan, with its own website and a twitter page.”

Meanwhile, Sky News reported in January that “Pakistani officials have reportedly used a secret counter-terrorism fund to buy wedding gifts, luxury carpets and gold jewellery for relatives of ministers and visiting dignitaries.” This is better than funneling to the terrorists themselves the money that the Pakistani government received from the U.S. to fight terror, but it shows how seriously the Pakistani authorities have taken their role in the “war on terror”: not seriously at all.

But they do take some things very seriously indeed. Last November, after Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in a drone strike, the Pakistani government was furious, and summoned the U.S. ambassador to protest. The Pakistani foreign minister, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, said the killing of Mehsud was “not just the killing of one person, it’s the death of all peace efforts” and warned that “every aspect” of Pakistan’s relationship with Washington would be reexamined.

And last summer, Pakistan’s Abbottabad Commission, which was an investigation into the U.S. raid that killed bin Laden, denounced the United States as “arrogant” and said that the killing of bin Laden was the “greatest humiliation” that Pakistan had suffered since the 1971 declaration of independence by East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).

None of this should be a surprise to anyone. Last summer the Associated Press reported of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that “critics worry that Sharif, who is known to be personally very religious, is soft on Islamic extremism and won’t crack down on militants that pose a serious threat to Pakistan and other countries — chief among them the Taliban and al-Qaida-linked groups.”

But he has shown that he knows how to keep the gravy train flowing from Washington. Despite all the evidence above and much more that Pakistan is not a reliable U.S. ally and not even really an ally at all, last November the U.S. and Pakistan agreed to continue their “counter-terrorism co-operation” even after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. A joint statement declared:

“Affirming their mutual commitment to a strong defence relationship, the delegations agreed that Pakistan-US defence partnership is vital to regional and international security and that it should continue to endure and grow in the years ahead. Both delegations welcomed continued efforts to strengthen bilateral cooperation based on mutual interests and trust.”

Mutual interests? Trust?

The U.S. government is in dire need of an intervention: its friends need to get it to seek professional help for its addiction to shoveling huge amounts of money to old Cold War allies that aren’t really allies at all. The problem is that the only friends who could stage such an orchestrated effort are just as far gone themselves.

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Mar 22, 2014 at 1:38 pm

    I don’t recognize the guy on the left
    but the guy on the right is a known associate of the terrorist group the Muslim Brotherhood.

  2. mortimer says

    Mar 22, 2014 at 2:00 pm

    Ex-president Musharraf called himself a ‘moderate Muslim’. Yet he harbored the Taliban and Al Qaeda, including OBL. He pretended to be America’s friend.

    Why? Taqiyya…he lied.

  3. desidude2 says

    Mar 22, 2014 at 2:47 pm

    Nothing surprising there. I believe i wrote here years ago, before they found where Osama is that the Porkies and their spy agency, the ISI, knew where Osama was. They were keeping the Information secret to get continued billions from the dhimmi USA.

  4. Abdul says

    Mar 23, 2014 at 12:59 am

    Let’s be truthful. Pakistan is the true ally of USA . USA has armed, funded and supported pakistan against India, even to the extent of ignoring the horrific genocide of the east pakistanis in 1971 where more than 3 million people were killed and countless women raped and when India stepped in to stop this genocide, the USA sent its 7th fleet to the Indian ocean to intimidate India into submission. Lucky for the Bangladeshis that Indira Gandhi, the then Indian PM did not scare that easily. Even after 1971 debacle, USA has been inciting pakis to spread terror in India and in the recent decades, all over the world. For those who have the mistaken Idea that USA wishes a secure and safe Afghanistan, think again- the perfidious Americans will be handing over all the hardware in Afghanistan to the pakis, to be passed on to the taliban, who will then use it to finish off the Afghan government and establish the taliban rule as the pakis want. If pakis are not an ally, USA too is not doing boy scout work. The world indeed would be a wonderful place without USA and its wonderful ally.

  5. dumbledoresarmy says

    Mar 23, 2014 at 6:16 am

    Observe one “Abdul” above who seems to be pushing off the blame for Jihad onto the USA. It’s all America’s fault! Ignore Islam, ignore 1400 years of Jihad in all directions, ignore the millennium and more of Jihad that was waged before ever the USA came into existence as a state, and ignore the thousand years of Jihad waged by Muslims upon India before the USA was ever born…it’s all America’s fault and if only America were destroyed the Jihad against India would stop/ could be defeated…??? Really?

    Re assorted follies committed by the USA in the region, I would remind people of the maxim I have already cited above – never assign to malice what can be sufficiently explained by stupidity or by ignorance.

    Neat piece of “split the camp” involved in that posting – 1/ incite any Indian non-Muslim readers against the USA and 2/ cause American readers to reject all hope of a rapprochement with non-Muslim India.

    Bear in mind, always, always, that one of the top priorities of mohammedans is to keep the camp of the Infidels divided.

    A forum like this, where persons of many nations and of different non-Muslim belief systems meet, interact, discuss their own and their various nations’ horrible past and present experiences with Islam and Muslims, and swap ideas and at times condolences and words of encouragement, is exactly what Mohammedans hate: because it *does* tend to lay the groundwork for non-Muslim solidarity, crossing national boundaries and the boundaries between the nonreligious and the (non-Muslim) religious, and between various sorts of non-Muslim religious.

    Therefore Muslims, whether identifying as such or not, will be constantly trying, at forums such as this, to rake up and rekindle old resentments and grudges and suspicions, and if possible, to create new ones. They *want* and *need* Jews and Christians, Hindus and Buddhists, religious and nonreligious, westerners and non-westerners, to hate and fear and suspect and squabble with one another.

    At all costs, Muslims must head off an alliance between the world’s two big Infidel democracies – the USA and India. They see the seeds of such a future alliance being sown in friendly conversation, at grassroots citizen-to-citizen level, between some of the non-Muslim Indians who visit this forum, and the Americans who also frequent it, and it scares the sh*t out of them.

    PS – Speaking as an Australian, I think *my* country should, when looking around our neighbourhood, make a relationship with India ( a fellow commonwealth country, after all!) a much higher priority than any sort of relationship with Muslim Indonesia (which relationship will always be a snare and a delusion) or with totalitarian China. And as for Pakistan and Afghanistan…fuggedaboutit, the sooner we are out of there – and the sooner we cut off *all* “aid”, etc…and STOP letting Pakistani and Afghan Muslims into Australia – the better.

    • Abdul says

      Mar 23, 2014 at 1:43 pm

      dumbledoresarmy
      I hope you can read.
      Now, what do you not understand ? That USA funded, armed and supported jihadi pakistan for 60 + years ? that US winked at the genocide carries out by the paki army in Bangladesh in 1971 ? that post 1971, USA has been funding, arming and supporting the pakis against India ? that USA plans to hand over its hardware in Afghanistan to the pakis ?

      • sidney penny says

        Mar 24, 2014 at 3:31 am

        Has the USA changed?Why is it supporting Pakistan with billions of taxpayer dollars for a state supporter of terrorism.

        http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Kissinger/Bangladesh_TOHK.html

        Bangladesh excerpted from the book

        The Trial of Henry Kissinger

        by Christopher Hitchins Verso Press, 2001

        http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/30/opinion/nixon-and-kissingers-forgotten-shame.html?_r=0

        http://books.google.com.au/books?id=pBBBEH0OEoUC&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=the+trial+of+henry+kissinger+bangladesh&source=bl&ots=PAVhhCtbsP&sig=ZOGWm3srQd6-ffL5EnSe2ukTbNQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Y90vU8ClBsTHkwWSh4GYCQ&ved=0CFMQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=the%20trial%20of%20henry%20kissinger%20bangladesh&f=false

        The Trial of Henry Kissinger page 50

        http://www.amazon.com/Trial-Henry-Kissinger-Christopher-Hitchens/dp/1859843980

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 25, 2014 at 6:21 pm

        More crap from “Abdul”.

        The idea that *the US* is behind the global Jihad threat is ludicrous and false.

        America has had some muddled and contradictory policies over the years, but that is an entirely different matter.

        The US originally envisioned Pakistan as a hedge against the Soviet Union, but that never worked out very well.

        But as ugly as Pakistan is, pretending that there is no threat except from Pakistan is simply ludicrous—Muslims all over the world are waging violent Jihad.

        And as Dumbledore’s Army points out, Jihad *much* predates America’s founding, in any case.

        • Abdul says

          Mar 25, 2014 at 11:33 pm

          gravenimage

          read up a bit before displaying your ignorance.

          USA supported the worst dictators when it served their purpose Including the likes of Saddam hussain, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Ayub Khan , Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, House of Saud, Pervez Musharraf , Nigerian dictators, Muslim Brotherhood and many more, discarding them as and when they have served their purpose.

          USA has never liked democracies because all democracies are not pliable to US demands. Currently, USA is engaged in trying to overthrow democracies in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and India using it’s ally Pakistan, in the region. For this purpose, USA has not only been bankrolling and arming the rogue country for the last six decades but has also decided to handover all the hardware in Afghanistan to the pakis. So much for the so called ‘War on Terror’ handing over ALL of the hardware to the promoters of terror. One is free to draw one’s own conclusion.

  6. sidney penny says

    Mar 23, 2014 at 8:13 am

    Pakistan -center of Terrorism

    Axis of Evil

  7. apostate says

    Mar 23, 2014 at 9:54 am

    Right on DDA as always.

  8. Mawloud Ould Daddah says

    Mar 23, 2014 at 6:09 pm

    A Pakistan in CONTINUOUS AND ACCELERATED COMPROMISSION WITH EXTREMISTS AND TALIBANS CAN’T BE CONSIDERED AN ALLY,THAT’S IT….

  9. gravenimage says

    Mar 25, 2014 at 6:24 pm

    Robert Spencer in FrontPage Mag: Face the Truth: Pakistan Is Not An Ally
    ………………………..

    Nor has it ever been…

  10. dumbledoresarmy says

    Apr 1, 2014 at 6:58 pm

    When I see someone called “Abdul” in a forum like this and it is fairly clear that that moniker is not meant ironically – I very much doubt that any Hindu Indian would call himself “Abdul” – I automatically distrust anything they say, especially when it becomes obvious that what they are about is fomenting distrust, confusion and division among different sets of non-Muslims.

    For Abdul is a Muslim name and Muslims are People of the Lie.

    http://www.meforum.org/2095/islams-doctrines-of-deception

    Islam’s doctrines of deception
    by Raymond Ibrahim
 Jane’s Islamic Affairs Analyst
 October 2008

    I doubt that anyone called “Abdul” really cares very much about the wellbeing of non-Muslim India.

    • Abdul Malik says

      Apr 3, 2014 at 1:53 am

      dumbledoresarmy

      Since you mention it. How can you assume that I am a muslim just because my name is Abdul ? Well I used to be one a long time back. Have realized that being a muslim is tough but being an ex muslim is tougher. We not only have our ex co religionists who thankfully, cannot murder us for apostasy , out for our blood (this is India not pakistan) but also learned people like you all. Now, why don’t I change my name to Albert, Anil or Anthony ? Well, I was called by this name ever since I can remember. It is my name and I happen to like it. Moreover, this is the name in all my document and IDs, passport, house ownership deeds. Coming back to the topic. I do believe that USA is undermining the Indian/Afghan/ Bangladeshi democracy by supporting a hire for money/ arms state like pakistan whose avowed aim since its inception is destruction of India and subjugation of its peoples. America has stood by pakistan as it attacked India in 1947-48, 1965, 1971, and 1999. All of pakistan’s wars against India were fully paid for by your beloved America. I have no reason to believe that America did not supply the nuke tech to pakistan covertly. Sorry got to go now.

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