US Secret Agents 'Used Kashmir Earthquake As Cover For al-Qaeda Intelligence Work' -- The Telegraph
The 2005 Kashmir earthquake was used as cover by the US to send secret agents into Pakistan tasked with tracking down al-Qaeda operatives and their Pakistani handlers, according to a new book that lifts the lid on the Pentagon's special operations.
Authors Marc Ambinder and DB Grady claim that dozens of Americans arrived posing as aid and construction workers in the aftermath of a disaster that claimed more than 70,000 lives.
Some left only last year when US Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden and relations between Washington and Islamabad reached a new low.
The latest revelations will anger Pakistani authorities at a time when they are considering lifting a ban on Nato supplies passing through their territory to Afghanistan.
And genuine aid agencies fear it will increase suspicion about their activities in a country still recovering from consecutive years of heavy floods.
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My Comment: The priority was to get Bin Laden and other key Al Qaeda leaders. Pakistan was not cooperative to the level that the Americans wanted, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were getting worse .... especially the Al Qaeda aspect in these conflicts. Faced with limited options .... correction .... no good options, I can now see how they justified their decision to use aid agencies as cover for their intelligence operations. Unfortunately for the aid agencies in Pakistan today, this news will shed a questionable light on them from the Pakistani authorities .... especially from Pakistan's intelligence services such as the ISI.
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