Robert Fisk: Into the terrifying world of Pakistan's 'disappeared'

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@Captain1

Americans do not know the foot-soldiers/helpers of Taliban/OBL in Pakistan so they need Pakistani intelligence to do that work. Pakistani intelligence/army under Musharraf - as we all know - wasn’t really sincere in eliminating the terror squads because of manifold reasons hence the innocents were captured and made them admit that they were the elephants.

That can work if they are busting a small gang, but for larger networks NO. But getting paid per head will definitely make them pickup any ‘foot’ whether soldier or not.

And the Americans never questioned whether the Elephants sold to them were were really Elephants? Not that I am attributing a conscience to them, but they have a clear financial incentive to do so dont they? Conversely what keeps the ISI from picking many more people if convincing Americans that these are Elephants is so easy? The numbers I have read of (wrt WOT not Balochistan, where americans have no interest in buying BLA Elephants) are fairly low, something between fifty and the low hundreds. Surely the ISI is being conservative in exploiting the financial opportunity they have? Why is that?