Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Dismantling Pro-Taliban Elements In Pakistan's Intelligence Agencies

From Strategy Page:

The newly elected civilian government in Pakistan is trying to dismantle the pro-Islamic radical elements in the ISI (a combination of military intelligence and CIA). It's not certain that this effort will work, even though it began several months ago, not in the wake of the recent Mumbai attack. Last July, the U.S. accused the Pakistani ISI (Inter Service Intelligence agency) of being directly involved in a recent terror bombing of the Indian embassy in Afghanistan. The accusation not only involved CIA representatives going to Pakistan to present intelligence information directly to Pakistani leaders, but also leaking the event to the media. This was one of many instances where ISI has supported Islamic terrorists, and this time Pakistan reacted by saying they would root out "Taliban spies" in the ISI.

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