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| Pakistan denies 'preposterous' claims of involvement in attack on CIA base |
| 2016-04-16 |
| [NATION.PK] Pakistain on Friday dismissed as preposterous reports that its intelligence agency helped fund a 2009 suicide kaboom on a CIA outpost in Afghanistan that was one of the deadliest attacks in the U.S. spy agency's history. A heavily redacted U.S. government document, released under the Freedom of Information Act, said that an unidentified officer of Pakistain's Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligenceagency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... directorate paid $200,000 to the Haqqani network to facilitate the bombing. The attack, at a site known as Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan, killed seven and maimed six. "Allegations in the media on Pakistain’s involvement with HQN are preposterous," a Pak Foreign Ministry spokesperson said in a statement, using an acronym for the Haqqani network, which the United States has designated as a terrorist organization. "In fact, we were shocked and deeply saddened when precious American lives were lost at the Chapman facility in 2009 in an unfortunate attack that was later claimed by TTP in a publicly available video, featuring the jacket wallah with the leader of the TTP," the statement said. The TTP, or Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, is the main Pak Taliban faction. "Pakistain is determined to eradicate the scourge of terrorism and has taken action against all terrorist elements, without discrimination," the statement said. The declassified U.S. government document, obtained by the National Security Archive, a non-governmental research institute at George Washington University, can be found here. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 A heavily redacted U.S. government document, released under the Freedom of Information Act, Do the acquisitions require any further proof? Thank you IB. The PK release last year of Mumbai terrorist planner 'Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi' prompt your actions by chance? Once again, thank you Indian Bureau of Intelligence. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-04-16 02:27 |