Posts Tagged ‘CIA’
Remove American Forces from Pakistan
Afpakwar | Arshad Zaman | 30 July 2010 It’s official: although careful not to leave any footprints, the U.S. has boots on the ground in Pakistan. U.S. troops in Pakistan ensure compliance by the government, under threat of overt occupation. This was revealed on Thursday 22 July 2010, when U.S. lawmakers Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and Ron Paul [...]
Robert Gates and Michael Mullen on David Cameron, Pakistan, and the ISI
U.S. Military, Joint Chiefs of Staff | 29 July 2010 Pentagon Press Conference As Delivered by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense , Pentagon Briefing Room Thursday, July 29, 2010 EXCERPT Q: British Prime Minister David Cameron said today that he can’t tolerate the idea [...]
Memoirs of Mulla Abdul Salam Zaeef
Reuters | By Myra MacDonald | 10 Feb 2010 “My Life with the Taliban” – on study and Islamic values In “My Life with the Taliban”, Abdul Salam Zaeef — who fought with the mujahideen against the Soviets in Afghanistan and later served in the Taliban government before it was ousted in 2001 — writes of how he longed [...]
ISI: Wikileaks logs reflect soldiers’ fears, suspicions, and anxieties
Der Spiegel | 28 July 2010 By Matthias Gebauer, John Goetz, Hans Hoyng, Susanne Koelbl, Marcel Rosenbach and Gregor Peter Schmitz Logs Suggest Pakistani Intelligence Controls Course of War Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI, appears frequently in the war logs obtained by WikiLeaks. They suggest that even as Pakistan served as an [...]
The Daniel Ellsberg Moment: Wikileaks Reveals War Crimes, Lies, and Cover-Up in the Af/Pak War
Wikileaks on Sunday published more than 90,000 documents, which cover a period from January 2004 to December 2009, containing classified information about the war in Afghanistan. Wikileaks posted the documents directly to its site, and provided them in advance to The New York Times, The Guardian, and Germany's Der Spiegel, all of which ran [...]
Islamabad Station Chief until 2009 to Run CIA’s National Clandestine Service
Times of India | 21 July 2010 Retired US spy hired to run CIA covert service WASHINGTON: The CIA brought one of its most experienced spies out of retirement to run the far-flung US intelligence network, the agency said Wednesday. John D Bennett witnessed the emergence of al-Qaida in Africa in the 1990s and was on the front lines of [...]
America’s Resentful, Reluctant Partnership with Pakistan
Al Jazeera | By Robert Grenier (Ex-CIA) | 20 July 2010 US seeks Pakistan PR triumph A preacher I once knew said something which has resonated with me ever since. "There is no end to the good you can do," he said, "provided you are willing to give someone else the credit." No doubt, a substantial amount of good will come from the $500mn in [...]
Haass: We’re losing this unnecessary war
Newsweek | By Richard Haass | 18 July 2010 We’re Not Winning. It’s Not Worth It. Here’s how to draw down in Afghanistan. GOP chairman Michael Steele was blasted by fellow Republicans recently for describing Afghanistan as “a war of Obama’s choosing,” and suggesting that the United States would fail there as had many [...]
Psy-Op? American said to edit alleged online Al Qaeda magazine (that can’t be found)
Colbert Report | 1 July 2010 Al Qaeda Starts Inspire Magazine Is this some twisted American Psy-Op -- sorry, MISO (Military Information Support Operation), as it is now called -- or just some disaffected American Muslim hounded as a terrorist, who lost his job, and decided to live up to his tormentor's expectations? It is hard to say. An [...]
Ex-M15 spy chief: Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11
China Daily | 20 July 2010 Ex-M15 spy chief: No link between Iraq and 9/11 "Our involvement in Iraq radicalized, for want of a better word, a whole generation of young people - not a whole generation, a few among a generation - who saw our involvement in Iraq, on top of our involvement in Afghanistan as being an attack on Islam," she [...]
