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To: stockman_scott who wrote (43125)	10/10/2001 11:58:06 AM
From: Nick	Read Replies (1) of 65232

'Rogue Pak agents helped Taliban prepare for US attacks' AFP (Hong Kong, October 10) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afghanistan's Taliban militia received help in preparing their defences ahead of US air strikes from a group of renegade Pakistani military intelligence officers, a report claimed on Wednesday. The group, including a brigadier and a colonel, entered Afghanistan at the end of September with several truckloads of ammunition, the Far Eastern Economic Review said, citing retired senior army officials. It said as many as five officers from the powerful Inter-services Intelligence (ISI) agency were involved in the operation which was undertaken without the permission of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. Pakistan halted military supplies to the Taliban in the wake of last month's attacks on the United States after Musharraf pledged support for Washington in its campaign against alleged terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. The magazine also claims that ISI chief Lieutenant General Mahmood Ahmed resigned after Musharraf was informed of the operation. On Monday, Pakistan announced a major reshuffle of its senior army chiefs, claiming Ahmed had requested retirement. Lieutenant General Ehsanul Haq, a former director general of Military Intelligence, was appointed as his successor. The highly secretive ISI is known to have carried out extensive operations in Afghanistan where it helped to found, train and supply the hardline Taliban from 1994. The Taliban have come under US and British air attack since Sunday for their refusal to comply with international demands for the extradition of bin Laden.

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