once again, why? supposing they are telling Americans that the deer is Elephant, one of two things is happening. Either America is accepting their idea, in which case do you think the Americans are stupid enough to take at face value claims of Elephant-ness and giving whatever money they were offering for Elephants to ISI. Or they are not, in which case you have merely shifted the question one level up. I.e. Why are Americans keeping random deers indefinitely? What do they gain from this, given that it is politically inexpedient for them to do so, and costs them quite a bit in terms of their reputation.
At some point, there needs to be a ‘benefit’ for whoever is keeping these ‘deers’. Depending on your worldview, please specify what exactly the benefit is, to whoever is keeping these people.
It is more plausible for me that both ISI and those they hand these people over to believe that these are Elephants, but cannot prove it.
I dont understand your question. You’re asking me why pickup people to get to Mullah Umar? Why wouldnt they? I dont really have an understanding of how these things work, but picking up foot soldiers is a common approach in law enforcement. This is ofcourse assuming these people are foot soldiers.
I am not committed to a particular view on this issue, and am somewhat sympathetic to the missing persons as a humanitarian issue. One of my classfellows is a missing person. But the motivation attributed to the agencies by people on this side of the aisle is not convincing.