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| Top US official pays secret visit to Pakistan? |
| 2004-02-13 |
| A top US official paid a secret visit to Islamabad on Wednesday, sources said. The sources said the official with a 24-member delegation arrived at the Chaklala airbase at around 7pm on Wednesday and left the country on Thursday afternoon. Anyone hear anything? Foreign office spokesman Masood Khan denied the presence or a ’short visit’ by a US delegation to Islamabad. "I can tell you flat that this is not true," he told Dawn. Thanks, we believe you. ISPR director-general Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan said he was not aware if any senior US official had visited the capital. Other sources claimed that most members of the US delegation checked into two leading hotels in the city while the top man himself stayed at the US Embassy. They said there was a movement of the American VIP in the morning because of which traffic remained jam for quite some time in all directions on the VIP route between Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Powell? Rummy? Michael Jackson? These sources also claimed that ’something important’ was likely to happen shortly because the international media - teams of NBC, CBS, CNN and BBC - had started converging in Islamabad. That’s always a bad sign. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #7 We have a winner, spies it is! Asian News International Islamabad, February 13 The chief of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), George Tenet, and several other top-ranking Bush Administration officials clandestinely paid a 12-hour visit in Islamabad reportedly to discuss the nuke leak damage-control exercises being undertaken by the establishment. Sources in the know of the "hush hush" visit told the Daily Times that the American team had arrived on Wednesday night and departed by Thursday afternoon. Pakistani officials are said to have briefed the visitors about the nuclear scandal and the current situation in Afghanistan. |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-2-13 4:03:56 PM |
| #6 please be spring offensive,please be spring offensive |
| Posted by: Jon Shep U.K 2004-2-13 2:06:41 PM |
| #5 Or there are some negotiations going about that spring-offensive, after that Khan thingee, Pakistan might find it wise to cooperate. |
| Posted by: Evert Visser 2004-2-13 1:33:20 PM |
| #4 oooh, curiouser and curiouser...possibilities abound. 1. We got that bastard bin laden 2. We're gonna get that bastard Khan 3. We got some other bastard. |
| Posted by: Carl in N.H 2004-2-13 12:00:36 PM |
| #3 I think its to mushroom slap the Paki leadership after letting Khan off the hook. |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2004-2-13 11:35:36 AM |
| #2 Maybe they have located Osama in Pakland and need permission to send in sp. ops. |
| Posted by: Mustang 2004-2-13 11:16:42 AM |
| #1 The spies have arrived to find out what's going on. |
| Posted by: B 2004-2-13 8:49:31 AM |