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India-Pakistan
Ex-ISI officials may be helping Taliban
2006-10-02
Pakistan's intelligence service has played no role in propping up the renegade Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, President General Pervez Musharraf told US television Sunday, although he is investigating possible support to the rebels from retired Pakistani intelligence officials. Asked whether Islamabad's Inter-Services Intelligence has been helping the ousted Taliban, Musharraf, speaking on NBC television's "Meet the Press" programme, answered with an emphatic "no". "Nobody in the ISI has," the president said.

However he added, "I have some reports that some dissidents, some people, retired people who were in the forefront in ISI during the period of '1979 to '1989, may be assisting with their links somewhere here and there," he said. "We are keeping a very tight watch, and we'll get a hold of them if at all that happens."

He also expressed concern that support for the Taliban may be more widespread than many observers are aware. "They don't know the realities on (the) ground. They're not conscious of the reality I'm seeing — the extreme danger of this becoming a people's movement," he said.
Posted by:Fred

#11  Once again the endless morass of my ignorance is shrunk at Rantburg. Thanks for asking the question for me, Redneck Jim. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-10-02 23:08  

#10  Jacques de la Palice
Posted by: Pappy   2006-10-02 21:26  

#9  OK, I'm an uncultured Redneck.
Just WHAT the hell is that non-phonetic un-rhyimg drivel?
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2006-10-02 19:21  

#8   Song of La Palice

Gentlemen, hear if you please
the song of famous La Palisse,
You may indeed enjoy it
as long as you find it fun.
La Palisse didn't have the means
to pay for his own birth,
But he did not lack anything
once his riches were plenty.

He was quite fond of travel,
going all over the kingdom,
When he was in Poitiers
You would not find him in Vendôme!
He enjoyed a boat ride
and, whether in peace or in war,
He would always go by water
when he didn't go by land.

He drank every morning
some wine from a barrel,
For eating at his neighbors
he would always go in person.
He preferred at good meals
his dishes to be tasty and tender
And always celebrated Shrove Tuesday
on the eve of Ash Wednesday.

He shone like a sun,
his hair was blonde,
He would have had no equals
had he been the only one.
He had diverse talents,
some even claimed this:
Whenever he wrote in verse,
he did not write in prose.

He was, to tell the truth
a rather mediocre dancer,
But he would not have sung so badly
if he had chosen to shut up.
They tell that he would never
have taken the decision
of loading his two pistols
when he had no ammunition.

Monsieur d'la Palisse is dead,
he died before Pavia,
A quarter hour before his death,
he was still quite alive.
He was by sorry fate
wounded by a cruel hand
Since he died of it, we fear
that the wound was a mortal one.

Lamented by his soldiers,
his death is to be envied,
And the day of his passing away
was the last day of his life.
He died on a Friday,
the last day of his age,
Had he died on the Saturday,
he would have lived longer.
Posted by: SwissTex   2006-10-02 11:42  

#7  Hey, the classics never go out of style.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-10-02 11:26  

#6  Its getting so we need a 2nd 'Master of the Obvious' graphic - kind of like a a second shift. This one is getting used a lot lately -- needs some time off.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2006-10-02 10:48  

#5  sure, just the EX-ISI's.... not the uh, like, current ISI staff or nothing. Nosirree
Posted by: Frank G   2006-10-02 10:40  

#4  Do you get the feeling he wants the Taleban to become a mass people movement?!!!!
Posted by: Cheregum Crelet7867   2006-10-02 10:06  

#3  We receive you, five by five.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-10-02 03:59  

#2  Roger, that's a big 10-4, over
Posted by: Captain America   2006-10-02 00:42  

#1  Lol. Master of the Obvious, ya think?
Posted by: .com   2006-10-02 00:18  

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