Taliban Poised To Retake Afghanistan With Help Of Pakistan, Leaked Nato Report Concludes

[unhappycamper]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/02/01/taliban-poised-to-retake-afghanistan_n_1246131.html

Taliban Poised To Retake Afghanistan With Help Of Pakistan, Leaked Nato Report Concludes
First Posted: 1/02/2012 09:32 Updated: 1/02/2012 09:40

Pakistan is actively helping the Taliban retake control of Afghanistan, a leaked Nato report has concluded.

The top secret document seen by the BBC and The Times sets out the Western alliance's belief that the Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI, is "intimately involved" in the fight against coalition troops in the country. It says the Taliban is poised to retake the country once Nato departs.

"ISI is thoroughly aware of Taliban activities and the whereabouts of all senior Taliban personnel. Senior Taliban leaders meet regularly with ISI personnel, who advise on strategy and relay any pertinent concerns of the government of Pakistan," the report is quoted as saying.

The document is reportedly based on interrogations with more than 4,000 captured Taliban and al-Qaeda operatives at the US Bagram airbase in Afghanistan.




unhappycamper comment: This sounds like Vietnam all over again.

Can someone please tell me why we are staying until at least 2014?

[xchrom]

1. $ down the drain. Nt

[FreakinDJ]

2. How much "Foreign Aid" did the US give to Pakistan this year

[unhappycamper]

3. Reuters reports $850 million dollars in 2012.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/19/us-usa-aid-idUSTRE7BI1KO20111219

[leveymg]

4. That's a mere fraction of the Saudi money that goes to Pakistan/ISI/Taliban

When are Americans going to realize who we've really been fighting there all these years? Instead, our rage and military might is redirected to take out third-parties rivals for Saudi Sunni hegemony in the Muslim world.

Here's the official aid figure provided by the Saudi Embassy: http://www.saudiembassy.net/announcement/announcement08051001.aspx

Saudi Aid to Pakistan and Afghanistan
July 1, 2010

The total amount of donations announced by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Pakistan and Afghanistan is SR 27,673,301,921 ($7,379,547,178).

[NNN0LHI]

5. I think there is more than one faction of Taliban

The Saudis are currently in negotiations with one faction there while another faction is in UAE doing the same thing with someone else.

That is what it seems like to me anyway.

Don

[Robb]

6. Imagine a diplomatic system

...where whoever could personally raise the funds to travel to an embassy abroad gets to be the ambassador.

That's sort of what we're witnessing.