Re: CIA has established spy network in Pakistan, doesn't need ISI collaboration anymo
^ what circumstantial evidence exists?
since you say 'not an iota of hard facts to validate particular claims', you are essentially positioning yourself to say whatever you want without regard to facts.
I think you just made my case!
Re: CIA has established spy network in Pakistan, doesn't need ISI collaboration anymo
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Are you suggesting that it is impossible for the CIA to be involved in subversive activities in Pakistan, to maniupulate the situation on the ground to align it with American interests? This would be congruent with American activities during the cold war. That is fact enough for concern. I'm not asking if this IS the case...that would be a different question. I'm specifically asking for possibility...if you claim otherwise, then you admit to possibility. If you suggest it is impossible, then please provide your "facts" as to why....
There really is nothing else to read into what I am saying, other than the concern over having a non-Pakistani spy organizations with a history of subversion operating on Pakistani soil. A concern which may well be unfounded, as the premise of the article has not been established as fact...but that's a side point.
The correct rebuke would be to counter the claims that are actually being made...not ones you imagine. To spell it out: I claim the CIA has a history of subversion...consider, for example, Latin America in the 80's and 90's. Such subversion was not, to put it simply, a "good thing" for the countries in which the CIA was operating in.
Re: CIA has established spy network in Pakistan, doesn't need ISI collaboration anymo
when you have a sold out gov. and oppersition in power this is what happens.
What about your sold out military brass...you don't reckon, the NROed Zardari has the gall to the all power Kianai to what to do...
All you military brats need to get off your high horses and for once admit your great enlightened hope mushie sold you all out for a few billions and Kiani was his hand picked man...
Re: CIA has established spy network in Pakistan, doesn't need ISI collaboration anymo
@picoico - anything is possible. In fact I will go one step further to say, going by history as well as intensity of the theatre, we should be surprised and dismayed if CIA does not have a good network of informants within Pakistan (as it would in anyother part of the world, of interest.
That does not translate to explaining the frequent suicide bomb attacks in Pakistan. Hanibal said that and that is what I was correcting.