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| No disagreement in Pentagon on Pakistan role: US |
| 2011-09-29 |
| [Dawn] The Pentagon rejected reports Wednesday of disagreement among US officials over Pakistain's role in Afghanistan after the top US military officer accused Islamabad of backing jihad boys. A Pentagon front man said Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... endorsed the view of Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, who told senators last week that Haqqani cut-throats targeting NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... forces were a "veritable arm" of Pakistain's main intelligence agency. "The secretary and the chairman both agree that there are unacceptable links between elements of the Pak government and the Haqqanis," press secretary George Little told news hounds. The Pak elements backing the Haqqani network "include the ISI" spy agency, he said. The Washington Post reported Wednesday some defense and other officials disagreed with Mullen's remarks and that the admiral had overstated the role of the ISI. Unnamed officials told the Post that US intelligence reports did not have clear evidence Pakistain was exerting control over the Haqqanis, blamed for deadly attacks on US and NATO troops. But Little said there was a "consensus view" in the Pentagon about the links between Pakistain and the Haqqani network, which operates out of sanctuaries in Pakistain. "Everyone here understands there's a link between elements of the Pak government and the Haqqanis," he said. "At the analytic level, there's no disagreement," he added. Mullen's outspoken comments to the Senate Armed Services Committee carried special significance as he has devoted much of his four-year tenure to cultivating relations with his Pak counterpart and has often tried to explain to American audiences the challenges facing the leadership in Islamabad. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 But, but, but.... none of this, none of it I say, none of it, has anything at all to do with Islam, mad mullahs, Mosques or, or, or, madrassas (bomb making, kidnapping, clandestine communications training, the collection of zakat for the cause, suicide bomber recruitment, indoctrination and training, weapons training, or the like). |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-09-29 00:27 |