Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani holds talks with General Ashfaq Kayani in August 2008. Pakistan has appointed Lieutenant General Ahmed Shujaa Pasha as the head of its powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency. The US has in the past accused the spy agency of secretly backing Taliban rebels on the Afghan border. (AFP/HO/File/Press Information Department)From MSNBC:
Spy services provided IEDs, aided assassination plots, 2005 document says.
MADRID, Spain - A report marked confidential and bearing the official seal of Spain's Defense Ministry charges that Pakistan's spy service was helping arm Taliban insurgents in 2005 for assassination plots against the Afghan government.
The report, which was obtained by Cadena Ser radio and posted on the station's Web site on Wednesday, also says Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency, or ISI, helped the Taliban procure improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, to use in attacks against vehicles.
It alleges that Pakistan may have provided training and intelligence to the Taliban in camps set up on Pakistani soil.
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My Comment: This report is from 2005 .... I would love to read the 2007 report (if it exists) this is when the war in Afghanistan started to significantly grow.
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