Report: Pakistan Aiding Afghan Insurgency

The New York Times reported Sunday that Pakistan's government has allowed members of its spy network to meet with members of the Taliban, the Sunni Islamist group that ran Afghanistan for five years until 2001 when they were ousted by the United States. The Taliban currently is trying to regain its foothold in Afghanistan.

Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year in aid from Washington to help combat militants, according to documents cited by the New York Times. The organization WikiLeaks, a whistle-blower website, made the documents available.

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The documents further show that Pakistan's spy service holds "strategy sessions to organize networks of militant groups that fight against American soldiers in Afghanistan, and even hatch plots to assassinate Afghan leaders," according to the Times.

The Times also notes that much of the information in the documents cannot be verified because it likely comes from sources within or aligned with Afghan intelligence, which considers Pakistan and enemy country. It also notes that there are descriptions of plans for attacks that do not seem to have happened.

Read the New York Times story here.

[Simifanene]

Bush, Cheney and the rest of the Republican Corporate puppets created these these two 21st century Vietnams with their lies about weapons of mass destruction, the use of tortue and the schock and awing of the innocent. Bush led our young boys and girl soldiers to their deaths and disableing loss of limbs, sight and mind for reasons other than our safety, honor or retaliation for the twin towers attack by 4 Arab members of Alkaida. Could it have been for oil? Could it been for Isreal? Could it have been Bush's father's honor? George Bush told us Iraq defiantly has nuclear weapons and was a part of 911. Both turned out to be proven lies after Bush schock awed, and then ransacked the whole of Iraq turning up not one miniscule part of a nuke or even one drawing or paper plan of a nuke. It cost us 2 trillion dollars, 10,000, young teenage troops dead or disabled. 125,000 innocent Iraqi's dead or disabled and it will still take ten years to rebuild what he destroyed. All based on what? What was Bush's real motive? His lies we're found out, but what was his and Corporate America's motive? Bush is an oil man. All his life. Iraq was Bush's first Vietnam. What about Afghanastan his second Vietnam?? What was his motive there. He goes on national television saying the Taliban has attacked America. Another proven lie. It was a small gang of Arabs, led by Bin Ladin that had set up a base in the middle of nowhere, but a base known by our CIA. The 911 attack was not made by the Afghani's that he schock and awed. To top it off he ordered our troops to torture and do what ever it takes to win, including the killing of innocent families caught in the middle of his schock and awe. I'm a Vietnam Vet who served my country when they needed me as these young warriors serve today. As I was led by a fool in 1969, they we're led by a fool, George Bush in 2001 til 2006. As Bush divirts are troops from the surrounded Alkaida, Ladin and his gang escapes to Pakistan. Mean while while our patriotic troops fight their hearts out he declared we've won right after he schock and awed the poor families in Iraq and Afghanastan. That was just the beginning of his mistakes, but where they mistakes or intentional? When I was a boy Lbj and Nixon lied in everyway about Nam, and many of died, we're permently maimed or lost our minds for reasons never known, but felt like Corporate America was running the show. Today who controls America. The trillion dollar oil companies? I don't know but I do know that we we're led by men like Bush, and Cheney to our deaths as they sat in the oval office joking and smiling. My whole goal of my rhetoric is that Bush's Vietnams can't be won, the way he left us fighting. There must be a change in our strategies. Armies can't win Vietnams. Terrorist know no countries but live in all. We must hunt down terrorist in a new way, not with an army but with all of our other power. Clandestine warfare, snipers, assassians, special forces of our super green berets, seals, CIA squads, all informed by spies and infiltrators and backed up with our ten thousand stealth air force. We can pull out of Afghanastan today, and leave the Taliban be, but turn our focus on the hard terrorist, like Ladin and ths gang who are partying in Afghanastan because of Bush's and Cheney's failures. Obama is a great man and leader. I hope he hear's my words for the sake of our country and the honor of our flag. We can defeat all terrorist if we have the right mindset and perfect strategy. We have other powers as strong as our arimes, that can hunt down Alkaida in our time, on our terms. Bring our armies home but hit the Ladin gang with our most powerful clandestine forces. Flush them out of their wholes and nest's to face our snipers, asassians, seal units, green beret units, drones, Cia, backed up by our stealth air force. USA Obama USA

[thomasvladimir]

the lies around/within everything in american/global life are making it impossible to even know and understand the world i'm living in.the only thing that is certain is that the USA is falling apart,has lost its moral compass and can no longer be seen as any sort of democratic beacon.
there is not one area of certitude in your affairs and thus ours.
thomas vesely,australia

[Rajah88]

This is further indication that the purpose of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, like the Vietnam War, is to perpetuate war to the benefit of THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL MAFIA.

Americans spend a trillion dollars a year on such wars but cannot bring their elected officials to spend a trillion dollars, over 10 years, on domestic healthcare.

America*s priorities are inverted and YOU are being robbed, while your sons and daughters die for nothing.

[babooph]

From the age of the info,the Bush idiots were arresting those who fund radical Islam ,while they were doing the same with US tax $$$-If stupidity is a defense' they have a strong defense....

[michaelm07]

The world is upside down. In the news everything we are told is actually the opposite on so many subjects. People accuse the other sides of what they themselves are guilty of. I wish we would quit these silly games and say what the reality is. Pakistan is the enemy and India is an ally yetPakistan gets a billion $'s per year (from you and me). Iran is an enemy. China is almost an enemy and does eveything it can to make problems for the U.S. because they benefit. North Korea only exists because of the Chinese. But we do the same and as an example, most of the heroin from Afghanistan goes into Russia and we know it. Russia gets pissed and so then, they do things like, arm Venezuela to make problems for us, etc., etc. It is all a big chess game and U.S. soldiers are pawns. U.S. citizens work and pay taxes to perpetuate this garbage and we support a government that couldn't care less about what the people want nor what is actually best for the nation.

We can't do much about it but as long as our votes count - as it appears they still do - do the only thing you can do about all this stuff and vote out all incumbents who've more than 2 terms. It won't stop it in it's tracks but perhaps it will be a full generation before the politicians to are corrupted, bought and paid for, again.

[thomasvladimir]

your comments are spot on,the old is not working,entrenched & bought.

[rationall7]

I always believed, if you can dream it and have enough money someone can build it, so where is our high tech toys at the points of entry?

[pensacola8-2009]

Pakistan can not be expected to be different than the USA. Even in this nation, we have private sympathizers who fund causes out of the boundaries of the US government.

In 1980, the Republican Party established private channels outside the US government what operated under the Democratic Carter Administration and secured release of hostages that were being held in Iran. It was quite frustrating to the Carter Administration which had been trying to do the same thing.

Today, it is common for most nations to have policy pursuant under multiple opposing political entities. For every political leader, there is at least one shadow doing something that contradicts the official policy.

What CBS has done is failed to fully report the nature of the political machine and instead spun it to make readers believe it's different in Pakistan than it is in the USA. In reality, we know the GOP is cutting deals privately trying to undermine the Obama administration.

What the USA gets is different factions working with political motivation rather than for a unified patriotic cause. Pakistan gets the same thing. I predict another Vietnam unless Obama ends this war soon.

Military use of force is futile for political problems.

[wyodutch]

Pakistan... like most nations, recognizes that America is an empire in decline. Our industrial base is gone. We field an army of mercerneries instead of citizens-soldiers. We depend on the red chinese to provide the products which line our store shelves. The red chinese and the Japanese must loan us the funds to keep our government functioning. Our military defends the borders of Iraq and Afghanistan while our own borders go unprotected.
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[formrusmcsgt]

Needless to say, as this has come to public light, it will require a public response.

It'll be interesting to see that respnse.

[perish2]

I think it's time to pick up our toys and go home.