Friday, September 23, 2011

Insight: Pakistan helping Haqqanis attack U.S. in Afghanistan


Yet, from his safe houses and mountain redoubts, the guerrilla commander has directed some of the most brazen attacks against U.S. forces in Afghanistan, and is now seen as one of the most dangerous warlords in the Taliban insurgency.

Washington, with ever more strident accusations, thinks he is getting help from Pakistan's shadowy but powerful ISI intelligence agency.

The Haqqani network is a "veritable arm" of the ISI, and the agency was in contact with the group during last week's startling attack on the American embassy in Kabul, Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a U.S. Senate committee on Thursday.


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