US says evidence ties militant group to Pakistan

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Source: AP

(AP) ISLAMABAD — The U.S. ambassador to Islamabad said in remarks broadcast Saturday that there is evidence linking the Haqqani insurgent network to the Pakistani government, a charge that could raise tensions in an already strained anti-terror alliance between Washington and Islamabad.

The U.S. and NATO blame the Haqqani network for many of the attacks in Afghanistan, including this week's strike on the U.S. Embassy. The group — affiliated with both the Taliban and al-Qaida — and its army of several thousand fighters is widely assumed to be based just over the Afghan border in Pakistan.

U.S. officials have long suspected links between the Pakistan military and the Haqqani network.

But needing Pakistani cooperation to beat al-Qaida and stabilize Afghanistan, they rarely say so publicly and as directly as Ambassador Cameron Munter did in an interview with Radio Pakistan that was broadcast Saturday.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/17/ap/asia/main20107700.shtml

[lsewpershad]

1. Seems like

We are being set up for war with Pakistan

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2. Is this the Onion? nt

[hack89]

3. Here is an excellent detailed description of the Taliban in Pakistan.

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/05/the_pakistani_taliba_1.php

[lib2DaBone]

4. We are being set up.... They WANT a war with Pakistan.

We are funding both sides of the conflict.

We are propping up the Al Queida "Freedom Fighters" in Lybia.. giving them hundreds of surface-to-air missiles.

How "Shocked" will the American Public be when one of those rogue missiles shows up at an American airport?

[BadGimp]

5. The then head of Pakistans ISI (their CIA) wired $100,000 to one of the 9/11 hijackers

.. just months before the attack on 9/11

Oh yeah there are many in the Pakistan government that are clearly in league with terrorist groups.

[alp227]

6. NYT: Joint Chiefs Chairman Presses Pakistan on Militant Havens

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressing “deep concerns” about violent attacks mounted by the Haqqani insurgent network, has again pressed the Pakistani military to take action against militant havens, American officials said on Saturday.

The chairman, Adm. Mike Mullen, held a two-hour private meeting late Friday with his Pakistani counterpart, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, during a military conference in Seville, Spain, where the two discussed their nations’ complicated relationship.

full: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/world/asia/admiral-mullen-presses-pakistans-kayani-on-militants.html