US suspects ISI aiding Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan

Now keep in mind that the ISI and the Musharraff government is in power simply because the CIA put them there.... Then ask yourself why would they be helping the Taliban, unless they are helping set the stage for another "foreign terrorist act"....


Washington, Oct. 7 (PTI): The United States suspects that agents of Pakistan's ISI are aiding the Taliban insurgency against the Karzai Government in Afghanistan. The insurgents in Afghanistan, said the Washington Times, are increasingly turning to drug money to buy weapons, prompting the Pentagon to beef up counter narcotics operations.

According to US military intelligence sources, convoys regularly move into Southern Afghanistan from Pakistan, dropping off guns for the Taliban in exchange for opium from the world's largest poppy harvest. The paper quoting the sources said the ISI is aiding the Talibans.

www.hinduonnet.com...

I don't know about terrorist acts but I do know Pakistan's goverment and intel agencies aren't all on the same page and the source for the article, 'The Hindu', might be a wee bit bias (against Pakistan).

And, where the hell did I read they got Mullah Omar. Figured Bush would have had a press conference over that.

I wonder how this might be related....


U.S. Denies Taliban Official's Release

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP)--President Hamid Karzai and President Bush's special envoy to Afghanistan said Wednesday that U.S. authorities had not freed a top Taliban official, contradicting an earlier report from two Afghan officials.

Two Afghan officials said earlier that former Taliban Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil had been released Monday, after 22 months of captivity, from the U.S. headquarters in Afghanistan at Bagram Air Base, just north of the capital of Kabul.

Muttawakil surrendered to U.S. forces in the southern city of Kandahar on Jan. 8, 2002. He was believed to have been transferred to the Bagram base.

Karzai, at a news conference, told reporters that Muttawakil had not been released.

www.ajc.com...;COXnetJSessionID=1Ez2xUEJjc01ZpeGQgv2H3QMVbVCeN4ZJPLJMJLWR0 78zsgRw9lu!-1743610163?urac=n&urvf=10656285427640.16470954685742922

Bob, I agree the source may well be biased against Pakistan, but it is a known that the CIA is behind the MUsharraff government.

I am looking at this from the angle that it may be a set up for another 911 and this may be the setting for the "plausible deniability" part of it.

who are the two afagnes?
maybe they are Talibans them selfs?

[Edited on 8-10-2003 by Russian]

(and, weren't some of Karzai's ministers not backing Karzai...hmmm)

Originally posted by Bob88
I don't know about terrorist acts but I do know Pakistan's goverment and intel agencies aren't all on the same page and the source for the article, 'The Hindu', might be a wee bit bias (against Pakistan).

Actually "The Hindu" (the name of the paper was coined by the British in Colonial India) is a rather left-of-center newspaper, similar to the Guardian in the UK. Its editor, N Ram, a communist, is considered to have deep reservations against adherants of the Hindu religion.

As for the relationship between the government and the ISI. The ISI is a military staffed and dominated institution, and the Government is a military dictaorship.

At the most, they are two sides of the same face of a coin; hardly seperate institutions with seperate ideologies and goals.

Regards,
Jai

BIG SURPRISE. DR' s right on.

Let me get this straight people,

I am a big shot in pakistan and afghanis come to me with a deal to exchange high profit dope for some guns (lots of them hanging around), and a little bit of training.
Me being a greedy person and knowing that I will not get hurt or likely to be found out or even punished if I am say yes.

What the frock does this have to do with the CIA?

Do you know what research is? No offense theneo, but come correct if you wanna DISCUSS an issue.