The are not only condoning attacks of Taliban on US Soldiers, they are the attackers of US Soldiers in Afghanistan. They have been even sending their Commando Units to kill Americans disguised as Taliban, when all Taliban are on their Pay Roll also.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> *The Double Mirror*
>
> By David Ignatius Thursday, May 12, 2011
>
>
>
> In the days after the U.S. raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad
> — when the whole world was wondering whether the Pakistanis had known all
> along that he was there — I found myself reviewing my correspondence with
> officers of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) directorate. That's just
> one of the unlikely facts about Pakistan's fearsome intelligence service:
> its top operatives answer their e-mail.
>
> The notes brought back to me the strange duality of the ISI, which I
> encountered in my first meetings in Pakistan with its senior leaders in
> 2009. They proved to be passionate correspondents. With their public face,
> they wanted to be understood — liked, even. But their private face was
> coldly ruthless, to the point of silently condoning attacks on U.S. soldiers
> by their allies. (See why the U.S. is stuck with
> Pakistan.)<http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2071005,00.html>
>
> I found that I couldn't capture ISI's nuances in newspaper columns. So my
> eighth novel, *Bloodmoney*, is set largely in Pakistan; it centers on a
> fictional ISI and a CIA whose operations inside Pakistan have spun out of
> control. I describe the director general of my imaginary ISI this way: "To
> say that the Pakistani was playing a double game did not do him justice; his
> strategy was far more complicated than that."
>
> This Janus-like quality is true of all intelligence services, I suppose, but
> I have never seen an organization quite like the ISI. It is at once very
> secretive and very open, yet ISI officials get especially peeved at the
> charge of duplicity: "I cannot go on defending myself forever, even when I
> am not doing what I am blamed for," wrote one of my ISI contacts, after I
> had written a column noting the organization's "double game" with the U.S.
> "I shall do what I think is good for PAKISTAN, my country. I am sure you
> will do the same for US."
>
> What this official wanted me to understand was that Pakistan was suffering
> under its own onslaught of terrorism. An ISI briefer almost shouted at me in
> 2010: "Mr. David Ignatius! Look at the casualties we have suffered fighting
> terrorism!" We're in alongside the U.S., ISI officials insist. Yet they are
> caught in the backwash of an anti-American rhetoric they help create. The
> ISI's press cell feeds Pakistani newspapers constantly; presumably, it
> thinks its U.S.-bashing leaks will hide the reality of the ISI's
> cooperation. But the puppeteer has gotten caught in the strings.
> Anti-Americanism has taken a virulent form that threatens the ISI too.
>
> In late 2009, after an especially gruesome Taliban bombing that killed some
> of his colleagues, one of my ISI pen pals wrote: "WE MUST WIN, if we want
> our children to be living a life of THEIR CHOICE AND BELIEF and NOT OF THESE
> BEASTS. We want to get our beautiful and peaceful Country back from their
> vicious clutches. We can not allow them to destroy our future. They can kill
> me but NEVER my spirit, NEVER my free soul!!!" Who could dislike a man with
> such passionate punctuation? And yet back in the U.S., when I asked top CIA
> and military officers what the intelligence showed about the ISI's
> activities, they would become visibly angry. If you could just read the
> intercepts, they would say ... if you could see the double-dealing — how
> they take U.S. intelligence, for example, and pass it along to U.S. enemies
> in the Haqqani network.
>
> And now, the very worst: we learn that bin Laden had been living for at
> least six years in Abbottabad, a city that is virtually a military
> cantonment. It seems implausible that the ISI wouldn't have known, but CIA
> officials say there's no evidence yet of direct Pakistani-government
> knowledge. The ISI's core problem is that it created paramilitary forces it
> can't control. In the ISI's case, the problem is the forward-deployed assets
> of the S (for strategic) wing, which were sent out to the tribal areas and
> Afghanistan to form what became the various Taliban factions and to Kashmir
> to create covert weapons against India. The S wing and its partner the R
> wing (which manages operations) are the tail that wags the ISI dog. The
> current ISI leadership has tried to bring them under control, but only
> halfheartedly.
>
> This is the two-way mirror that shattered on May 1. And it has been a
> duplicitous game on both sides, it must be said. The U.S. has demanded the
> ISI's cooperation in fighting al-Qaeda but refused to disclose the scope of
> its operations. Our drones have operated from a Pakistani air base, for
> example, but we provide only "concurrent" notification of the targets —
> meaning after the Hellfire missiles have been fired. Like the Pakistanis, we
> want it both ways: operate as allies when it suits our purpose; operate
> unilaterally when it doesn't. The Pakistanis, for their part, fight the
> Taliban and other killers when it suits them, but they maintain a network of
> secret contacts with these same groups. They sup with the devil, claiming
> they're debriefing him.
>
> In my novel, the CIA and ISI come to a deal in the end. Their war is
> resolved through the ancient tribal code that demands a balance of mutual
> respect, symbolized by a payment of blood money. I suspect something similar
> will happen eventually in real life. Even after all the recent
> recriminations, we will keep working with the ISI. And we will eventually
> negotiate with the Taliban.
>
> What could make things with Pakistan worse — much worse, in fact?
> Confirmation of U.S. suspicions that the ISI knew where bin Laden was and
> sheltered him. President Obama says bin Laden had "some sort of support
> mechanism" in Pakistan. The cache of other material taken from bin Laden's
> compound will surely reveal the nature of that support network.
>
> You have to hope the suspicion of ISI complicity isn't true. If it turns out
> they were hiding him, we won't have a double game anymore but a single one —
> an unambiguous and deeply dangerous confrontation.
>
> *Ignatius, a novelist, is a foreign-affairs columnist at the Washington *Post.
>
> http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2070997,00.html<http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2070997,00.html#ixzz1MOwiL7CC>
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