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Old 07-28-2010, 01:55 PM   #1
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The Wikileaks revelations about murderous collusion between Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency and the Afghan Taliban have underlined the central role that country plays in the sponsorship of terrorism. This is despite the US disbursing $1 billion a year to enable the Pakistanis to fight it. In this respect, it would seem that enemies like Iran or Syria are a secondary problem.

And the collusion goes far beyond corrupt and dozy Pakistani border guards turning a blind eye to the Taliban launching cross-border raids on coalition troops in Afghanistan. It also means ISI involvement in planning the insurgents' operations, as well as even more murky links alleged between ISI figures and mysterious "Arabs". That's the preferred synonym, by the way, for members of al-Qaeda, who are embedded with the Haqqani and Hekmatyar networks, which the ISI once sponsored to fight the Soviet invasion.

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Old 07-28-2010, 03:18 PM   #2
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The Wikileaks revelations about murderous collusion between Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency and the Afghan Taliban have underlined the central role that country plays in the sponsorship of terrorism. This is despite the US disbursing $1 billion a year to enable the Pakistanis to fight it. In this respect, it would seem that enemies like Iran or Syria are a secondary problem.

And the collusion goes far beyond corrupt and dozy Pakistani border guards turning a blind eye to the Taliban launching cross-border raids on coalition troops in Afghanistan. It also means ISI involvement in planning the insurgents' operations, as well as even more murky links alleged between ISI figures and mysterious "Arabs". That's the preferred synonym, by the way, for members of al-Qaeda, who are embedded with the Haqqani and Hekmatyar networks, which the ISI once sponsored to fight the Soviet invasion.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...s-forever.html
But will this give the US permission to take "off the gloves" and deal with ALL THE TERRORISTS? NO this is why exactly why I oppose "war" not opposed to killing people, just opposed to the way our govt prosecutes WAR.
We must look like a bunch of saps to the rest of the world...
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Old 07-29-2010, 07:05 AM   #3
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Pakistan is a snake in the grass. They are not trustworthy at all. America must attack Pakistan to destroy the terrorist training camps being run in Pak occupied Kashmir(Pok).
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