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Although the ISI's association with the Taliban has hardly been a secret, some observers caution against rushing to judgment. Robert Grenier, a former CIA station chief in Pakistan, says "this is a very complicated, very nuanced situation." Grenier, now with the security firm Kroll Associates, explains that the ISI operatives who have links to "people we regard as enemies are not so much trying to aid them against America as preparing for a future when Americans and NATO are no longer in Afghanistan." In such a future, "the Pakistanis would be reluctant to concede the field to people whom...
...Washington, a New York Times report that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency is directly assisting militant groups fighting against U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan has barely raised an eyebrow. Veteran Pakistan watchers here have known - or suspected - as much for several years. "It confirms what a lot of us have been saying for a long time," says Lisa Curtis, South Asia expert at the Heritage Foundation. In the area of cooperation with the U.S. on counterterrorism, Curtis says, "the Pakistanis have the initiative - they play us." Adds Stephen Cohen of the Brookings Institution: "The problem from...
More remarkable than the report itself was its timing: the Obama Administration is about to announce the conclusion of a comprehensive review of Afghanistan policy, and Congress is discussing massive new aid - worth $1.5 billion a year for five years - for Pakistan. For U.S. officials - a group that provided a substantial part of the Times's sourcing for its story - to drop their long reticence on the subject of the ISI's duplicity at this particular juncture suggests, to some observers, an effort to put some pressure on Islamabad. "It seems like a prelude to a new strategy, which...
Pointing the Finger Re "The Scariest Places," Joe Klein succinctly presents the dilemma facing President Obama and his advisers regarding Afghanistan and Pakistan [March 16]. My suggestion is simply put the blame on Israel, then we can all go home. Nachman Kahana, JERUSALEM, ISRAEL
...begun to leapfrog the border into Sunbelt cities like Phoenix and Tucson in Arizona and even Atlanta. That has set off political alarm bells in Washington, where earlier this year the Pentagon issued a hyperbolic report that called Mexico a "failed state" along with the likes of Pakistan. Nevertheless, says Bailey, "the general feeling is that the Vandals are at the gate, and we've got to repress them. It's reached a level of moral panic, and it's an issue where the Republicans feel they can hold the Democrats' feet to the fire...