John R. Houk, Editor
Intro © May 9, 2016
Pakistan’s spy organization known as Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI) is doing something that at the very least, Counterjihad
writers had guessed at since the USA invaded Afghanistan for providing safe
haven for al Qaeda’s Usama bin Laden. Namely, that the ISI has been providing
material support to Islamic terrorist organizations that are still attacking
American troops in Afghanistan. For that matter the same Islamic terrorist
organizations that have been slaughtering Christians living in Pakistan.
Even worse, the American CIA and other NATO nations that
have been involved in fighting in Afghanistan has had full knowledge of ISI
activities against the Afghan government and NATO troops led by America. THINK ABOUT IT! That means the ISI has
been operating with impunity against the USA without consequences. After all we
went after the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan because of the Islamic
terrorist attack on American soil on September 11, 2001.
I don’t know how far back the USA has had full knowledge of
ISI activities, but shame on President Bush if his Administration was privy to
anti-American ISI activities while Pakistan was pretending to be the USA’s
partner against Muslim war criminals. It does not surprise me about the Obama
Administration cooperating with the ISI and so by extension with Islamic
terrorists shooting at American troops. Obama has done all he can to screw up any
formal victory against Islamic terrorism with wishy-washy policy
decisions from day one of his time in Office. AND that includes reducing America’s military capabilities to
its lowest levels since before WWII!
Hemmer & McCallum
VIDEO Fox News: US Army reduced to smallest
size since WWII
Below are some nefarious details provided by an English
translation of a Hindi news article published in India’s Dainik Jagran.
JRH 5/9/16
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Pakistani Military's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Is
A Terror Organization:
Column By MEMRI
Scholar In Hindi Daily
By Tufail Ahmad
May 8, 2016
In a column, MEMRI South Asia Studies Project
director Tufail Ahmad discusses the role of the Pakistani military's
Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) in creating and shielding
jihadist terror groups. The column – titled in Hindi "ISI – A Terror
Organization" – was published by Dainik Jagran, the largest
Hindi-language newspaper in India, on April 27, 2016.
The following is
the original English text, from which it was translated into Hindi:
"There is
enough publicly available evidence to recognize this fact: the Pakistani
military's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, known as ISI, is a
terrorist organization. While the peoples of India and Afghanistan are aware of
the ISI's role in creating, nurturing, shielding and using terror groups,
people in the U.S. and Europe are not fully aware of this aspect of ISI. Let's
look at the following points.
"One, on April
14, it emerged from a declassified U.S. cable that the ISI had funded the 2009
suicide bombing on the CIA base in Khost, eastern Afghanistan. The 2010 cable
noted: 'some funding for Haqqani attacks are still provided by the Pakistan
Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, including $200,000 for the December
30, 2009, attack on the CIA facility [in Khost].' This was the deadliest attack
on CIA in history. Haqqani Network is a key unit of the Afghan Taliban which
are funded and aided by the ISI. On September 22, 2011, Admiral Mike Mullen,
the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the U.S. Senate: 'Haqqani
is veritable arm of Pakistan's ISI.'
"When the cable
was declassified, Washington-based journalist Chidanand Rajghatta wrote: 'the
sequence of cables detailing the ISI's role in organizing the attack suggests
that the U.S. administration lied to the American public about Pakistan being a
frontline ally in the War on Terror.'
"Two, in 2007
U.S. military interrogators in Guantanamo Bay classified the ISI as a terrorist
group in secret papers. On April 25, 2011, the WikiLeaks revealed those secret
papers as per which the U.S. officials had designated the ISI as one of the 32
'militant forces or organizations' with which Al-Qaeda and the Taliban have 'an
established working, supportive, or beneficiary relationship for the
achievement of common goals.' The ISI was ranked alongside Hamas,
Jaish-e-Muhammad and Hezbollah, among others. WikiLeaks also reported that
there were plans to explode a nuclear bomb in Europe if Al-Qaeda leader Osama
bin Laden was caught.
"Three, Adnan
Rasheed, a leading Taliban commander, is a former employee of Pakistan Air
Force (PAF). In an interview with jihadi magazine Azan in
2013, Rasheed revealed that an institution called Idarat-ul-Pakistan was
established within the PAF to coordinate jihadi activities across the three
branches of the Pakistani military: navy, army and air force. Rasheed also
noted that he was sent for training at a camp of Jaish-e-Muhammad led by
Maulana Masood Azhar. At the training camp, Adnan Rasheed realized that
Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) was 'working under the ISI.' He told his boss in the
Idarat-ul-Pakistan: 'There is no difference between us and Jaish-e-Muhammad. We
are soldiers in uniform and they are soldiers without uniform.' Adnan Rasheed's
interview clearly established that Jaish-e-Muhammad is a branch of ISI.
"Four, in
mid-2014 a video interview emerged of Shamsh Kashmiri, who was removed from his
post as the deputy emir of Jaish-e-Muhammad. Kashmiri had developed differences
with the JeM chief Maulana Masood Azar after he refused to order jihad against
the Pakistani military following the 2007 army operation in Red Mosque of
Islamabad. In the interview, Kashmiri noted: 'We used to think that
Jaish-e-Muhammad, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Harkatul Mujahideen, Hizbul Mujahideen,
Al-Barq Mujahideen... are purely sincere organizations for jihad... but the Red
Mosque operation proved' that 'Our jihad is being done under obedience to ISI.'
Even today, Jaish-e-Muhammad is allowed freedom to spread jihadi teachings and
publish Haftroza Al-Qalam, a weekly newspaper.
"Shamsh
Kashmiri also revealed that when General Pervez Musharraf banned jihadi groups
under international pressure, the then ISI chief Lt.-Gen. Pervez Kayani
'instantly decided to double' the monthly salaries to the jihadi groups. As per
Kashmiri, JeM was getting 45 lakh [4.5 millioOn] rupees, Lashkar-e-Taiba was
given 90 [9 million] lakhs and Hizbul Mujahideen was getting one crore [10
million] rupees. These amounts were raised by Kayani. Kashmiri also noted:
"The money that the ISI gives is called operation money... So far as I
remember 90 lakhs [9 million] monthly was fixed for Jaish-e-Muhammad." He
added: "There is the training center of Jaish-e-Muhammad in Balakot. About
20 to 25 soldiers (of Pakistan Army) are there for their security' and 'It is
the duty of one person from every organization to meet ISI people in [the towns
of] Muzaffarabad, Kotli and Mansehra on a daily basis.'
"Five,
Jaish-e-Muhammad, the ISI and Al-Qaeda have deep relationships between them.
Adam Yahiye Gadahn, known as Al-Qaeda's American spokesman, was killed in
Waziristan in January 2015. In a detailed interview published posthumously
by Resurgence magazine of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent
(AQIS), Adam Gadahn noted that when he moved from California to Pakistan, he
first stayed at the Kuwait Hostel of the International Islamic University,
Islamabad. 'Two Pakistani brothers (came) to pick me up from the hostel. They
told me they were from the group headed by Maulana Masood Azhar, who was still
in an Indian prison.' His statement reveals that Jaish-e-Muhammad is a feeder
organization for Al-Qaeda.
"Six, although
Al-Qaeda has been led by Arab terrorists, it is fundamentally a Pakistani
organization from day one. It was established on the watch of the ISI in
Peshawar in 1988 – at a time the ISI had emerged victorious in Afghanistan. It
is from Pakistan that Al-Qaeda spread to the Middle East. Al-Qaeda is
practically a branch of the ISI, which views itself as the ideological guardian
of the Islamic state of Pakistan: both Al-Qaeda and the ISI share the same
ideological objective – establishment of the Islamic Caliphate, with the only
difference being that ISI wants Pakistan to be the head of such an
international caliphate. It was the ISI that protected Osama bin Laden in
Abbottabad, as it protected Taliban leader Mullah Omar and continues to protect
Maulana Masood Azhar and current Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri.
"Currently, the
ISI is using the Taliban to launch deadly attacks in Afghanistan in full
knowledge of the world powers. On April 19, the Taliban carried out a suicide
bombing near the headquarters of an elite Afghan military unit in Kabul,
killing 64 people and wounding 300 others. Aided by CIA and Saudi money, the
ISI was in full control of jihadi groups in Afghanistan in the 1980s. It
remains in full control of jihadi groups in Afghanistan in 2016."
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Intro to Pakistan ISI is a Terror
Organization
John R. Houk, Editor
Intro © May 9, 2016
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Pakistani Military's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Is
A Terror Organization
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