Hundreds of hand-picked men and women are being given crash courses in Urdu and Pushto by the defence department with the aim of letting them loose in Pakistan so that they can keep the country under close and continuing scrutiny.
| Ummm... Yeah. That'd be a brilliant plan... |
This ambitious operation is to be the responsibility of American intelligence and security agencies, since it is now agreed at all hands here that Pakistan is the most dangerous country in the world, the breeding ground of Islamist terrorists, the preferred refuge of Al Qaeda and similarly "inspired" terrorists on the run and a nuclear power that could one day be taken over by the same elements against which the United States considers itself as being at war today.
| That pretty well sums up Pakland, doesn't it? |
The Washington Times, a newspaper known for top grade knowledge of the inside working and thinking of the American intelligence community, reports that the US, on the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, is "augmenting counter-terror operations in Pakistan with scores of former special-operations warriors who work for the CIA and other agencies under contract." While Washington insists that there are no American troops fighting the Taliban and Al Qaeda "inside" Pakistan, the reality is that there are "a load of contracts" with US agencies attracting veterans of Special Forces and other elite units to Pakistan, one source told The Washington Times. |