Suicidal ISI Keeps Blowing Itself Up
It's a brilliant strategy, really. To convince Jon Gold they had nothing to do with 9/11 they are attacking themselves regularly under the guise of al Taliqaueda! Or, more likely, the destabilization of another strong Islamic country by ******* continues apace. Now who could ******* be?
INTERNATIONAL / ASIA PACIFIC | November 14, 2009
Militants Hit Pakistan Spy Agency
By SABRINA TAVERNISE and ISMAIL KHAN
The truck-bomb attack in Peshawar killed at least 11 at a regional office of the main intelligence agency.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/world/asia/14pstan.html
There was no doubt about the target or the motive of the bombing on Friday: Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, is a prominent symbol of military power, and militants have struck at it in different cities in Pakistan. The military is conducting a campaign against insurgents in the western mountains of Waziristan, an offensive that has led to a sharp increase in reprisals by militants.
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Whenever an agency or organization is attacked...
I always try to find out what kinds of employees were killed - like whether they were key higher-level personnel, which would point to an outside force doing the attack, or whether only low-level non-essential employees were the victims while the higher level ones were coincidently and miraculously off-site, which usually means that the attack was an "inside job" or that it was at least coordinated in part by key elements within that organization. Does anybody know who these "11" were?
The ISI obviously has a tainted history with their involvement with terrorism inside India and other misdeeds that too many people know about, so if this turns out to be an "inside job", this could be a tactic of the ISI trying to improve their image utilizing the very old tactic of "look, we were attacked so that makes us the good guys, right?". Otherwise, if it turns out to look more like an "outside job", Mossad would be a prime suspect for the purpose of destabilization.
A confusing aspect of
Thats a good way to look at it.
A confusing aspect of Pakistani politics is that some of the actors including those in government and perhaps military and intel are colaborators with the US Gov, which we know to be influenced by Israel. There were reports for example saying that the very deadly and unpopular Predator drone attacks came from air strips within Pakistan with the implication that their operation is with the approval of the Pakistani government. Due to the complications above, I am very reluctant to draw my own conclusions on incidents that occur there.
Suspected U.S. drone kills 4 in Pakistan-officials
"U.S. officials say the strikes are carried out under an agreement with Islamabad that allows Pakistani leaders to decry the attacks in public."
Suspected U.S. drone kills 4 in Pakistan-officials
Wed Nov 18, 2009 3:29pm EST
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 19 (Reuters) - A suspected U.S. drone aircraft fired two missiles into a northwestern Pakistani militant stronghold on Wednesday killing four people, Pakistani security officials said.
The United States has carried out more than 40 attacks with its pilotless, missile-firing aircraft in northwest Pakistan this year as it forces in neighbouring Afghanistan have faced an intensifying Taliban insurgency.
The late night attack was in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border, 20 km (12 miles) west of the town of Miranshah, the intelligence agency and paramilitary force officials said.
The identities of the four people killed and six people wounded was not known, said the officials, who declined to be identified. North Waziristan is a stronghold of Taliban militants and their al Qaeda allies.
The Pakistani army has been battling militants in the neighbouring South Waziristan region since last month.
Pakistan officially objects to the U.S. drone strikes, saying they violate its sovereignty.
U.S. officials say the strikes are carried out under an agreement with Islamabad that allows Pakistani leaders to decry the attacks in public.
http://www.reuters.com/article/asiaCrisis/idUSSP476018