Taliban leader killed by (UK) SAS was Pakistan officer

[sabra]

Source: UK Sunday Times

British officials covered up evidence that a Taliban commander killed by special forces in Helmand last year was in fact a Pakistani military officer, according to highly placed Afghan officials.

The commander, targeted in a compound in the Sangin valley, was one of six killed in the past year by SAS and SBS forces. When the British soldiers entered the compound they discovered a Pakistani military ID on the body.

It was the first physical evidence of covert Pakistani military operations against British forces in Afghanistan even though Islamabad insists it is a close ally in the war against terror.

Britain’s refusal to make the incident public led to a row with the Afghan president Hamid Karzai, who has long accused London of viewing Afghanistan through the eyes of Pakistani military intelligence, which is widely believed to have been helping the Taliban.
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“He feels he has been telling everyone about Pakistan for the past six years and here was the evidence, yet London refused to release it, because they care more about their relations with Islamabad than Kabul,” said a source close to the president. “He knows Britain is worried about inflaming its large Pakistani population, but that is no excuse.”

Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4926401.ece

[maxsolomon]

1. At least the GWOT seems to be shifting towards its actual center

This was apparent on 9/12/2001, and I don't understand what's taken the US military so long to figure it out (other than incompetence & Bush). Certainly the British reminded them about the SAS/ISI ties with the Taliban that we helped forge in the wake of the Russia's retreat from Afganistan.

I sure wish pakistan didn't have the bomb.

[cosmicone]

2. Pakistan is responsible for

95% of the world's terrorism from Bosnia, Kosovo, Dagestan, Chechnya to Kashmir, India, Xin-Jiang and Philippines.

Taliban is 70% active duty Paki military.

If world wants a stable Afghanistan and reduce terrorism, Pakistan HAS to be balkanized into 4 or 5 smaller countries and the military broken up from a large force to a very small, divided one.

This will also resolve the Kashmir problem once and for all. Kashmir is a problem as long as Pakistan exists. It becomes a peaceful state of democratic India then.

[Posteritatis]

3. My agenda sense is tingling ever so lightly (nt)

[ohio2007]

4. You just can't buy friends like that these days nt

[WhiteTara]

5. kick

I have no words
:kick: