What Pakistan Knew About Bin Laden

redravin · Mar 24, 2014

This is without a doubt one of the best written pieces on what happened in Pakistan concerning Bin Laden and the Taliban.

Carlotta Gall does an amazing job of tying together many pieces that I knew and adding things that I didn't.

She proves that Pakistan is the country most likely to cause destabilization in the region and put the Taliban back in charge of Afghanistan.
It's a long article but well worth the read if you want a clear idea of what's going on the region and just how little we should trust Pakistan.

I guess the real question is why are we dumping huge amounts of money into Pakistan when we know they don't have our best interests at heart?
These people pretty much created the Taliban and want to destroy India.
They are not our friend.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/magazine/what-pakistan-knew-about-bin-laden.html

The Pakistani government, under President Pervez Musharraf and his intelligence chief, Lt. Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, was maintaining and protecting the Taliban, both to control the many groups of militants now lodged in the country and to use them as a proxy force to gain leverage over and eventually dominate Afghanistan.
The dynamic has played out in ways that can be hard to grasp from the outside, but the strategy that has evolved in Pakistan has been to make a show of cooperation with the American fight against terrorism while covertly abetting and even coordinating Taliban, Kashmiri and foreign Qaeda-linked militants.
The linchpin in this two-pronged and at times apparently oppositional strategy is the ISI. It’s through that agency that Pakistan’s true relationship to militant extremism can be discerned — a fact that the United States was slow to appreciate, and later refused to face directly, for fear of setting off a greater confrontation with a powerful Muslim nation.
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