Word: interent
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...should come as no surprise that India is feeling vindicated: The United States has finally come around to endorsing India's view of the nefarious regional role of Pakistan's intelligence service. Reports in recent days that the CIA has confronted Pakistan with evidence that its spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), had a hand in last month's suicide terrorist attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul echo India's long-held conviction that Pakistan is backing terrorism in the region...
...President's Working Group on Financial Markets, an inter-agency collection of regulators led by Paulson, had actually been looking into potential problems with hedge funds and derivatives. But they missed CDOs. Paulson terms the oversight "obvious after the fact." Not so, say some observers. "I've got a lot of respect for Paulson and his credentials," says Glenn Hubbard, who was chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers in the early Bush years and is now dean of Columbia Business School. "But this looks like the Fed and Treasury were lurching from crisis to crisis, when much...
...have known better. One of the world's most powerful intelligence agencies, routinely dubbed a "state within a state," was hardly likely to submit meekly to the efforts of a newly installed government to bring it to heel. Less than 24 hours after it tried to put the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) organization firmly under government control last weekend, the struggling administration of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was forced to backpedal under pressure from the military, making clear the limits on the civilian government's power...
...same question about Obama to Pakistan's legendary Colonel Imam. The colonel is on French leave from Pakistan's notorious Inter-Services Intelligence agency. But he knows the Taliban - he organized it in the mid-nineties. And that's not to mention that he all but invented the Afghan resistance in the early eighties...
...serious / economic reform. The Administration firmly maintains that Mexico cannot simply make domestic cuts, as it did during its debt crisis in 1982, but must swallow its pride and open itself up to more free trade and foreign investment. Said Senator Phil Gramm, chairman of the U.S.-Mexico Inter-Parliamentary Committee, last week: ''If they do what needs to be done, they won't need our help. If they don't, there isn't enough money to help them.'' According to one American official, the U.S. might provide financial assistance more readily if Mexico provides increased assistance...