Pakistani Intelligence Sponsoring Terror

Pakistani Intelligence Sponsoring Terror
By Aaron Mannes

This morning, The New York Times has a front page story stating that U.S. intelligence has determined that Pakistan’s intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, aided the July 7, 2008 attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul. The conclusion was “based on intercepted communications between Pakistani intelligence officers and militants who carried out the attack…”

This is a very big deal. Indian intelligence sees the ISI behind every adverse event (it should be noted that sometimes, this assessment is correct), but oftentimes the follow-up investigation is lax and inconclusive. India’s security services are of uneven quality (with, it should be emphasized, some able people in top slots) and blaming the ISI is easier than engaging in the needed long-term reform. More recently Afghanistan’s President Karzai has been publicly accusing Pakistan of supporting the Taliban against his regime.

But for U.S. intelligence, particularly the CIA (which has a long working relationship with the ISI) to come to this conclusion - and allow it to appear in the newspaper of record is an event of a different magnitude altogether and it should be taken very seriously.

Read the full post here. http://terrorwonk.blogspot.com/2008/08/pakistani-intelligence-sponsoring.html