From left, Adm. Mike Mullen, Rear Adm. Scott Van Buskirk, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha. United States Navy, via Associated Press (Photo New York Times)From The Boston Globe:
IT IS HARDLY a secret that Pakistan's Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence has long maintained close ties with the Taliban and kindred armed extremist groups. But now that President Obama has focused on repelling the Taliban's bid for power in Afghanistan, sending 17,000 fresh American troops to bolster US and NATO counterinsurgency forces there, Pakistan's treacherous double game has to be confronted squarely.
In a recent story drawing on accounts from US and Pakistani security officials, The New York Times described how the secretive S Wing of the ISI provides militant groups with ammunition and fuel for the fight against American and NATO forces in Afghanistan. Operatives in S Wing also recruit new fighters for the Taliban from radical madrasas inside Pakistan. And ISI personnel help those groups with strategic planning, even counseling them when to step up and when to gear down their operations.
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My Comment: Many military and national security blogs have been voicing the same thing for the past few years. It is nice to see the main stream media finally catching up.
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