FINANCE-RULE and AIR-BASE in Afghanistan and OIL and GAS
(hydrocrabons, pipeline, black sea resources)
ABC news tells us STRAIGHT OUT that the CIA approved
the HEAD OF THE PAKISTANS secret murderer agency:
Head of Pakistan's Spy Agency Gets Term Extended ABC
News
Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen
and Navy Rear Adm. Scott ... efforts against al Qaeda
and the Taliban, and works closely with the CIA. ...
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KABUL, Afghanistan March 9, 1020
Pakistan's top spy can remain in his position for
another year, Pakistan's army announced today, keeping
in place a three-star general who United States
officials have become convinced is committed to
flushing militants out of his country.
PHOTO: Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike
Mullen and Navy Rear Adm. Scott van Buskirk, from left,
talk with Pakistani Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Ashfaq
Kayani, center, and Director General, Military
Operations, Major Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, on the flight
deck aboard USS Abraham Lincoln, in the Gulf in this
2008 photo released by the U.S. Department of
Defense.Lt. Gen. Pasha, the director-general of
Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency,
would have had to take mandatory retirement later this
month without the one year extension, which was
officially declared today but informally granted weeks
ago. Collapse (U.S. Navy/Spc. 1st Class William John
Kipp Jr., via AP)
Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, the director-general of
Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency,
would have had to take mandatory retirement later this
month without the one year extension, which was
officially declared today but informally granted weeks
ago.
United States officials, many of whom are deeply
suspicious of the ISI's relationship with the Taliban,
have come to believe that keeping Pasha in place will
facilitate efforts to flush out Taliban safehavens from
Pakistan. The ISI leads Pakistan's efforts against al
Qaeda and the Taliban, and works closely with the CIA.
CIA'S Near Miss of Top Afghan Taliban Leader Sign of
Improved Intelligence
United States officials also seem to be convinced
that Pasha's boss, army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani,
should stay in his position if recent gains against the
Pakistani and Afghan Taliban are to be continued.
Kayani is set to retire later this year, but it is
not clear yet if he will receive or accept an extension,
or whether he will step aside. If he does step aside,
Pasha would be a leading candidate to succeed him.
United States officials admit their relationships
with Kayani and Pasha - whom they have known for decades
- have been mixed. But lately, the officials seem
convinced that both men are committed to fighting the
Taliban, and seem to want both to remain in place.
Kayani is among the last senior Pakistani army
generals to have received training in the United States
before American sanctions cut the training off.
Many subsequent Pakistani army officers went to
Saudi Arabia for training, and the United States
officials are worried that lower-level officers are
deeply skeptical of fighting what many Pakistanis view
as "America's war" against the Taliban.
United States military and diplomatic officials in
the region say their relationship with Kayani has
improved thanks to constant face-to-face meetings with
many senior American officials, but especially with Gen.
Stanley McChrystal, the head of international forces in
Afghanistan, who regularly travels to Pakistan.
A barrage of U.S. drone attacks HAVE KILLED SCORES OF
INNOCENT CIVILIANS IN A WAR FOR CONQUEST AND CONTROL.
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