Musharraf Allowed CIA Terrorists Set Up Base in Pakistan
| 'Musharraf allowed CIA base in Pakistan' June 10, 2008 presstv.ir | |
"On Jan 9, 2008, Mike McConnell, director of national intelligence, and Gen. Michael Hayden, director of CIA, visited Islamabad where they discussed a plan to make operational a secret CIA base that could mount attacks on militants by drones armed with missiles," Ahmed Rashid wrote in his book "Descent into Chaos". The base was located in the restive Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, a region considered a safe haven for Taliban and al-Qaeda cadres, The News Tuesday reported, quoting from the book. Pervez Musharraf, the book says, accepted help from the US Special Forces to train and mentor Pakistani counterterrorism units. Turning to the February elections, the book says the US embassy in Islamabad had extensively reported to Washington about the plans drawn up by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to rig the polls. Rashid describes "how the Bush administration remained soft on Musharraf despite all his follies and instead kept pushing (slain former prime minister) Benazir Bhutto to conform to the US-sponsored deal" to share power with him after the polls. "Two weeks before her death, Benazir Bhutto told me she was facing enormous pressure from the White House, particularly Vice President Cheney's office, to conform, while there was no similar pressure on Musharraf to carry out his side of the bargain," Rashid says. After the elections, Bhutto widower Asif Ali Zardari came under considerable pressure from US President George Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Musharraf to form a coalition with the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid, the book says. Zardari confronted the US pressure and instead allied with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, the writer concludes. JR/DT |
Posted by USHOSTAGE at 6/11/2008 5:43 AM 
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Categories: Pakistan, SSP, uscourts.gov, AIPAC, Israr Ahmed, Tanzeem-e-Islami, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, FBI, Pentagon, Federal Bureau of Investigation, mcabayarea.org, Israel, Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, centcom, Muhammad Allama Iqbal, Mossad, Millat-e-Islamia, blog, sipah-e-sahaba, MI6, CIA, Amin Ahsan Islahi, Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat
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