U.S. Data "Leaked" to Terrorists

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Source: The Hindu

A day after Pakistan Army laid the ground rules for intelligence sharing with the U.S., CIA Director Leon Panetta arrived in the country amid reports suggesting that terrorists had got wind of information shared with Islamabad regarding bomb making activities twice in recent weeks.

According to media reports, information, including satellite images, had been passed on to Pakistani officials in mid-May by the U.S. regarding bomb-making factories in North and South Waziristan. But when the Pakistani security forces reached the two places on June 4, they found them abandoned.

Mr. Panetta is expected to have confronted the Pakistani military and intelligence establishment about this development, which comes in the backdrop of Washington keeping Islamabad out of the entire operation to get al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden because of the fear that it would compromise the highly risky exercise.

No official word was available about Mr. Panetta's visit except a one-line statement from the Inter Services Press Relations stating that he called on Chief of Army Staff Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.

more: http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article2095894.ece

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. The Onion had a similar article last week titled

Pakistani Intelligence Announces Its Full Cooperation With U.S. Forces During Upcoming Top Secret June 12 Drone Strike On Al-Qaeda At 5:23 A.M. Near Small Town Of Razmani In North Waziristan

http://www.theonion.com/articles/pakistani-intelligence-announces-its-full-cooperat,20681/

It shows how absurd our relationship is

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. I have to wonder why we can't initiate a series of intelligence stings -

pass on specific information about specific different bogus targets, and identify the leak by which of the targets gets warned.

That would, of course, be dependent on the head of Pakistani intelligence not being a part of the leak.