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April 26, 2011 WikiLeak release Document from 2007 Lists Pakistan as Threat to U.S. Leaked US Documents: Pakistani Intelligence Is 'Terrorist-Supporting Entity' 25 April 2011 VOA News Leaked U.S. documents show U.S. military personnel labeled the main Pakistani intelligence agency as a terrorism-supporting entity in 2007. The secret files show U.S. authorities at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility placed Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate on the same list of threats to the United States as al-Qaida, Palestinian militant group Hamas and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. The documents show Pakistan's ISI is one of more than 30 organizations labeled "terrorist and terrorist support entities identified as associated forces." They say any Guantanamo detainee affiliated with the blacklisted organizations "may have provided support to al-Qaida and the Taliban or engaged in hostilities against U.S. or coalition forces." U.S. security personnel used the documents dated 2007 to determine the threat posed by suspected militants held at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Western news agencies say anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks released the secret files. The ISI had no comment on the documents, but it has consistently denied any ongoing links to Islamist insurgents operating in Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan. The Pakistani intelligence agency is not on the official U.S. government list of terrorist organizations issued annually by the State Department. The documents show Yemen's intelligence agency also is on the list of "terrorist and terrorist support entities." The United States has provided millions of dollars of assistance to the intelligence services of Pakistan and Yemen in recent years. Relations between Pakistan's ISI and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency have been strained for years despite the governments of both nations pledging cooperation in the fight against Islamist insurgencies in the region. The relationship worsened in January when CIA contractor Raymond Davis shot and killed two Pakistanis who he claimed were robbing him in Lahore. U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Admiral Mike Mullen said on a visit to Pakistan last week that he believes the ISI has a "longstanding" relationship with the Haqqani network, an al-Qaida-supporting group fighting U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan. Pakistan's army chief General Ashfaq Kayani rejected that charge as "negative propaganda." Allegations of ISI links to Afghan militants date back to the 1980s, when Pakistan and the United States supported warlords fighting against Soviet troops occupying Afghanistan. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
