Julian Borger, diplomatic editor | Thursday August 16, 2007 | The Guardian

The Pakistani government gave substantial military support to the Taliban in the years leading up to the September 11 attacks, sending arms and soldiers to fight alongside the militant Afghan movement, according to newly released US official documents.

Islamabad has acknowledged diplomatic and economic links with the Taliban but has denied direct military support. The US intelligence and state department documents, released under the country's freedom of information act, show that Washington believed otherwise.

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The suspicion has lingered that some elements of Pakistani intelligence are still protecting the Taliban and its al-Qaida allies in the autonomous tribal areas along the Afghan border. US officials have warned they might take direct military action without Islamabad's approval.

Among the documents acquired by the National Security Archive, an independent group pressing for government transparency, is a confidential memo sent in November 1996, from intelligence report from Islamabad to the Defence Intelligence Agency in Washington, describing how Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Corps was operating across the border.

The Frontier Corps are recruited from the Pashtun population in the tribal areas, but commanded by officers from the regular Pakistani army.
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He proposed holding a summit of Middle East allies and major developed nations with the goal of a new type of Marshall Plan, which he called the “Partnership for Prosperity and Progress.” The objective of the strategy would be to ensure that “threatened Islamic states had public schools, not Wahhabi madrasas, micro-credit and banking, the rule of law, human rights, basic health care and competitive economic policies,” he said.

You may recall, “Coalition of the Willing” (COTW) was the marketing term used by the White House in 2003 to convince American voters that an international consensus supported the Iraq invasion. Prewar polls indicated Americans did not want to go into war alone.

“When you have a look at the coalition of the willing … you can see that this is actually many nations who share the United States’ approach,” said White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer less than a week before the invasion.

COTW was also adopted by such Bush Kool-Aid drinkers as the right-wing think tank the Heritage Foundation. “‘Coalition of the Willing’ Already Larger than the 1991 Gulf War coalition” was a headline of one of its news releases.

Did “many nations,” in fact, “share the United States’ approach” in Iraq? Was the COTW larger than the alliance assembled to carry out the 1991 war to extract Saddam’s army from Kuwait?

No and hell no.

During the first Gulf War, Arab nations and Turkey contributed close to 300,000 troops to the invasion force. And financial pledges from other nations, including Saudi Arabia and Japan, exceeded the actual cost of the war.

The COTW for this war was largely a list of small nations who contributed almost nothing to the invasion and subsequent occupation forces.

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Thanks for finding these items. It is also clear that as a spokesperson of the CFR that Obama is in the elites back pocket and ready to continue the war ad nauseum. Same with Hitllery who is ready to continue the battles to please her masters. It's almost comical seeing these people bow down to their masters like the dogs they are grabbing whatever scraps they can hang onto to get more power.

Sickening display of grovelling. Is this what it takes to become president? To be just a figurehead for power means you crawl up to your masters for the privilege of acting as a leader? What has this world become? A strategy of deception at best

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In a segment today about Sen. John McCain’s misleading attacks on Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) willigness to act against al Qaeda in Pakistan, CNN notes that President Bush took the same position as Obama in a 2006 interview with Wolf Blitzer. “Absolutely,” said Bush when asked if he “would give the order” to “kill or capture” al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan, even if the Pakistani government objected.
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By Joby Warrick and Robin Wright | Washington Post Staff Writers | Tuesday, February 19, 2008; Page A01

In the predawn hours of Jan. 29, a CIA Predator aircraft flew in a slow arc above the Pakistani town of Mir Ali. The drone's operator, relying on information secretly passed to the CIA by local informants, clicked a computer mouse and sent the first of two Hellfire missiles hurtling toward a cluster of mud-brick buildings a few miles from the town center.

The missiles killed Abu Laith al-Libi, a senior al-Qaeda commander and a man who had repeatedly eluded the CIA's dragnet. It was the first successful strike against al-Qaeda's core leadership in two years, and it involved, U.S. officials say, an unusual degree of autonomy by the CIA inside Pakistan.
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