Musharraf says "CIA Paid Pakistan for al-Qaeda suspects"

[Solly Mack]

US spy agency CIA paid Pakistan for al-Qaeda suspects: Musharraf
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060924/wl_afp/pakistanusattacks

"In response a US Department of Justice official was quoted as saying: "We didn't know about this. It should not happen. These bounty payments are for private individuals who help to trace terrorists on the FBI's most wanted list, not foreign governments.

Our relationships with international leaders is not something we are prepared to talk about," a CIA official told The Times."

[EFerrari]

1. Isn't this roughly how these felons populated Gitmo?

Our government is full of felons.

[Solly Mack]

18. That's my thoughts. They bought suspects to ah..."interrogate"

aggressively

[madokie]

23. how sick is that

in our name no less, damn

[Solly Mack]

25. And let's face it, if the CIA is buying "suspects"

you know they interrogated them...

they are probably at GTMO...or some other American run prison

being held indefinitely

and I have no real good reason to doubt that the CIA is paying governments for suspects either

[madokie]

28. sure they have interrogated them

the discussions concerning torture proves to me they are guilty. All they are really accomplishing is more hatred for the united states.

[Old and In the Way]

2. I suspect they were paying for warm bodies.

They needed to get their "captured terrorists" to market.

[EFerrari]

8. They needed a group perp walk. Rumny saying, " These are

the most dangerous terrorists in the world!"

That's what he said as we marched those 85% innocent people into Gitmo.

[Solly Mack]

19. it's exactly that sick

:(

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Musharraf is saying a lot of things that are being denied by

the people he says said them.

[Solly Mack]

20. The state dept is pleading ignorance

and the CIA is not commenting

Armitage denied he said it

Mushie's book is gonna fly off the shelves

[bigbrother05]

4. K and r

For the morning group

[magellan]

5. "We didn't know about this"

Once again the Bush** maladministration proves either its knowing complicity or its utter incompetence.

"We didn't know" should be written on each of their tombstones.

[EFerrari]

6. "No one could have imagiined" n/t

[gully]

14. Perfect answer!

ha.

[Solly Mack]

24. that's the standard answer isn't it?

:(

[Garbo 2004]

7. Wouldn't be at all surprised if so. n/t

[Solly Mack]

26. Exactly. The state dept admits they pay private individuals

Money is constantly missing from the war on terror

the CIA is funded in ways no one likes to talk about

and with a group that "aggressively interrogates" using "alternative techniques of interrogation", paying a government to buy people isn't that hard to imagine

[varun]

9. Mushy's days are numbered

just like the previous dictators of Pakistan. He is going to be in an "airplane crash", or some accident soon.

[H2O Man]

10. That seems

increasingly likely. It will increase he destabilization of that part of the world.

[Disturbed]

11. Why is he now revealing these things?

Is his honeymoon with the BushInc. over?
Has he made a deal with the Taliban and al Q to stop trying to assasinate him?

[H2O Man]

12. He is being pushed

hard from two sides. About 90% of his recent remarks are aimed at keeping forces within his country from killing him. He is trying to make the case for why he has had to deal with Bush & Co. I think it is fair to assume, for example, that Mr. Armitage absolutely made the "stone age" comment. He is trying to show that he kept the US from striking/invading his country.

The source of the increased tensions comes in part from the administration's wanting to nab bin Laden before the fall elections, but even more as a result of the possibility that the Bush-Cheney administration will strike Iran.

[Solly Mack]

27. I don't doubt Armitage said it

it's in keeping with the "hard edge" persona of the Bush Regime

[H2O Man]

29. Right.

I also think that a reasonable person would have concluded at that time that there was a mighty good chance that Pakistani intelligence may not have been on our side on 9/11.

[Solly Mack]

31. reasonable assumption at the time

[varun]

32. Even now

there are parts of ISI that are against Musharraf's siding with US instead of Taliban. There are hardliners and Taliban sympathizers in Pakistan's ISI and Defence establishments.

[Solly Mack]

33. there was news blurp this morning in Germany...

"worries over coup in Pakistan while M. away"

worries were said to be groundless

my husband said " leaders come to the US and coups are popping up all over"

[bigbrother05]

17. 2 words: Book Deal

Got to play up the gotchas while he's on the US stage. If he said the same thing at home, it would be on page 23. Now he's getting lots of press and his sales will skyrocket.

[Odin2005]

35. Now that's an understatement.

If Mushariff falls Pakistan will likely come under the rule of Taliban-types, all those NUKES will come under the control of religious crazies. WW3 will begin with Delhi being turned into radioactive glass...

:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[jhain]

13. where is he today?

Which side of the Pond????

[Solly Mack]

22. Last word was in texas for a check-up...iirc

[gully]

15. So ahh, why are we in Iraq if we can just pay people to capture

"terists"

[elehhhhna]

16. How much is "AL QUEDA GUY #2" worth? We "caught" him about 10x already...

Do the math.

[Solly Mack]

Isn't like 14k terrorists "suspects" held in US "prisons"

all over? Isn't that the number they quoted when Shrub admitted America had secret prisons?

[gulliver]

30. Yeah, they've already got 3, 4, 5, and 6. They just turn them ...

... in one at a time so they are always getting bounty money for number 2.

[sweetheart]

21. well... cash is king.

Unmarked euros, i'm sure.

[DemReadingDU]

34. K&R