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| NYT:Pakistan Plays US in Baradar Capture |
| 2010-08-23 |
| NYT page one above fold. This is EXACTLY what some of us here at the 'Burg said was going on. IMHO- Must Read. Pakistani officials ... say they set out to capture Mr. Baradar, and used the C.I.A. to help them do it, because they wanted to shut down secret peace talks that Mr. Baradar had been conducting with the Afghan government that excluded Pakistan, the Taliban's longtime backer. The events surrounding Mr. Baradar's arrest have been the subject of debate inside military and intelligence circles for months. Some details are still murky -- and others vigorously denied by some American intelligence officials in Washington. But the account offered in Islamabad highlights Pakistan's policy in Afghanistan: retaining decisive influence over the Taliban, thwarting archenemy India, and putting Pakistan in a position to shape Afghanistan's postwar political order. "We picked up Baradar and the others because they were trying to make a deal without us," said a Pakistani security official, who, like numerous people interviewed about the operation, spoke anonymously because of the delicacy of relations between Pakistan, Afghanistan and the United States. "We protect the Taliban. They are dependent on us. We are not going to allow them to make a deal with Karzai and the Indians." Could someone start a countdown-timer on bombing Pakistan? |
| Posted by:Free Radical |
| #1 The longer we are there, the richer Pakistan gets. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Anguting2786 2010-08-23 11:36 |