Originally posted by Minskaya
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Would you care to tell me about Syed Saleem Shahzad? For those of you who are unfamiliar, Syed Shahzad was a Pakistani journalist who was investigating the extraordinary close links between the ISI and Pakistani militant groups. He was beaten to death and his body was tossed into an irrigation ditch eighty miles south of Islamabad. The ISI denied any involvement in his death. However, the US has electronic intercepts of his execution orders that were traced back to General Ahmad Shuja Pasha, the Director General of the ISI.
Pakistan's government "sanctioned" the killing of journalist Saleem Shahzad, the top officer in the US military, Admiral Mike Mullen, has said.
But he said he could not confirm if the country's powerful intelligence agency, the ISI, was involved.
BBC News - Pakistan 'approved Saleem Shahzad murder' says Mullen
But he said he could not confirm if the country's powerful intelligence agency, the ISI, was involved.
BBC News - Pakistan 'approved Saleem Shahzad murder' says Mullen
What about the Wardak bombing in Afghanistan? Coalition forces had been tipped off that two suspicious fertilizer trucks were navigating NATO supply routes. US military officials notified Pakistani General Kayani who promised that the trucks would be stopped and detained for investigation. However, Kayani did nothing. The trucks remained unmolested in North Waziristan for two months. During this period, the Haqqani Network turned them into suicide vehicles. US General John Allen once again placed a direct call to General Kayani requesting that these trucks be impounded. Kayani replied that he would make a phone call. A few weeks later, one of these trucks pulled up to the perimeter wall of the US military base in Wardak Province, Afghanistan. The driver pushed the detonation button. The explosion was powerful enough to breach the wall and wound seventy US Marines inside the compound. An eight year old Afghan girl half a mile away was killed by the shrapnel.
The American commander of Nato in Afghanistan personally asked Pakistan's army chief to halt an insurgent truck bomb that was heading for his troops, during a meeting in Islamabad two days before a huge explosion that wounded 77 US soldiers at a base near Kabul.
In reply General Ashfaq Kayani offered to "make a phone call" to stop the assault on the US base in Wardak province...
... Allen's spokesman said Nato "routinely shares intelligence with the Pakistanis regarding insurgent activities" but he refused to confirm the details of the conversation with Kayani.
The Pakistani military spokesman, General Athar Abbas, said: "Let's suppose it was the case. The main question is how did this truck travel to Wardak and explode without being checked by Nato? This is just a blame game."
US bomb warning to Pakistan ignored | World news | The Guardian
In reply General Ashfaq Kayani offered to "make a phone call" to stop the assault on the US base in Wardak province...
... Allen's spokesman said Nato "routinely shares intelligence with the Pakistanis regarding insurgent activities" but he refused to confirm the details of the conversation with Kayani.
The Pakistani military spokesman, General Athar Abbas, said: "Let's suppose it was the case. The main question is how did this truck travel to Wardak and explode without being checked by Nato? This is just a blame game."
US bomb warning to Pakistan ignored | World news | The Guardian
Gen Athar Abbar raises a valid point (regardless of whether the time frame was two days or two months), why did the US not intercept the trucks when they crossed to the Afghan side and during their journey to the target if the US did in fact have concrete intelligence? In addition, the US conducted one drone strike in North Waziristan on September 4 2011, and a total of 9 drone strikes in July and August of 2011. It would appear that the US not only had ample opportunity to intercept the trucks once they had crossed into the Afghan side, but also had ample opportunity to take them out in any one of the many drone strikes conducted in July, August and early September - so why didn't the US take out the truck bombs if the intelligence it provided Pakistan was so strong?
I have many more examples of ISI collusion AM.
To be quite frank, such disingenuous disambiguation really wears on me.
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