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...preliminary signs are that Musharraf, despite many obstacles, is actually succeeding in taming the ISI. He has put trusted men into key antiterrorism posts, and the ISI's field agents around the country are carrying out their new orders. Says one Western diplomat: "There are no rogue elements in the ISI. The discipline's too strict for that...
...swift, but not in the way the Egyptians had expected. That night last summer, the Pakistani security forces never turned up. Instead, a car with diplomatic plates full of Taliban roared up to the Peshwar house, grabbed al-Khadir and drove him over the Khyber Pass to safety in Afghanistan?beyond the Egyptians' grasp. Put bluntly, the Pakistani spy agency, known as the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), had betrayed the Egyptians. "The next day, the ISI called up and said, 'So sorry, the man gave us the slip,'" a diplomat recalls...
...started when these holy warriors shifted their training camps over to Afghanistan. There, these Islamic extremists, recruited from radical mosques and seminaries around Pakistan, fell in with al-Qaeda. For them, bin Laden's apocalyptic vision of Islam was compelling?plus he had lots of cash. As one Western diplomat explains, "There was this large militant pool, with men drifting from one outfit to another...
...quite pleased with the cooperation we've got from them," says a U.S. official in Washington. A Western diplomat in Islamabad says, "There's grudging compliance. They're saluting Musharraf and obeying...
...ties to militants. Activity has been suspended in the training camps that once fed the Kashmir rebellion, militants say. But the ISI seems unwilling to make an irrevocable breach with the guerrillas, in the event it later decides to rev up its clandestine support of them, according to foreign diplomats. The seven main suspects still at large in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl last January all had indirect links with the spy agency through the Kashmir conflict, according to Western diplomats. Now they're on the run. A Pakistani police investigator in the case...