Yet another "discrepancy" that shows us how silly it'd have been for the Taliban to strike the US, the godfather of their Pakistani ally --as of Sept 10th, that is....
INTELLIGENCE
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Issue cover-dated October 18, 2001
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Rogue Pakistan Agents Aid Taliban
At least three Pakistani military intelligence officers, including a brigadier and a colonel, crossed into Afghanistan at the end of September to help the ruling Taliban prepare their defences and strategy against pending U.S. attacks. The Interservices Intelligence officers, possibly as many as five, went without the permission of President Pervaiz Musharraf and they also took several truckloads of ammunition across the border, according to senior retired army officers. Pakistan suspended military supplies to the Taliban after the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States and Musharraf pledged to cooperate with Washington in its pursuit of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, who receives sanctuary from the Taliban. The sources said ISI chief Lt.-Gen. Mahmood Ahmad had resigned after Musharraf learnt of the incident. It is not known what has happened to the officers who returned to Afghanistan, but officers said the new ISI chief, Lt.-Gen. Ehansul Haq, will overhaul the service and get rid of mid-level Islamic fundamentalist officers who worked with the Taliban. The president carried out a massive reshuffle in the army's senior command on October 7. All ISI officers operating with the Taliban along with Pakistani diplomats were pulled out of Afghanistan on Musharraf's orders in mid-September. The ISI has been the main conduit for Pakistani arms, ammunition and fuel supplies to the Taliban in their fight against an opposition alliance based in the north, while the agency's officers have served as military advisers to the Taliban. Several ISI officers have become intensely loyal to the Taliban and their hardline Islamic ideology.
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From:
feer.com
If anything, were the Taliban to engage in terrorism abroad, their most likely targets would be in Europe or Russia, that is, against the main sponsors of their late arch foe Ahmad Shah Massoud. Any "overkill" terrorism --such as "911"-- against the US by the Taliban would amount to nothing less than political suicide...
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