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noquarterusa.net - 11/29/2008

ISI Goes Rogue

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Pakistan’s president, Asif Ali Zardari, has his hands full and some daunting challenges in the coming weeks as evidence emerges that renegades inside Pakistan’s intelligence service (i.e., ISI) were the masterminds of this week’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai. The number and ...

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post-gazette.com - 12/5/2008

Buchanan doesn't plan to step down as U.S. attorney

— post-gazette.com — Despite a new administration coming into power, U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan said she plans to stick... around. "It doesn't serve justice for all the U.S. attorneys to submit their resignations all at one time," she said yesterday. U.S. attorneys ... (more) Buchanan doesn't plan to step down as U.S. attorney

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thinkprogress.org - 12/5/2008

A New Attorney Scandal? Bush-Appointed U.S. Attorney Won’t Vacate Office Under Obama

— thinkprogress.org — Mary Beth Buchanan was appointed by President Bush to serve as U.S. attorney in Pittsburgh in Sept.... 2001. Buchanan has held several significant posts within the Bush/Ashcroft/Gonzales Justice Department, most notably serving as director the Executive ... (more) A New Attorney Scandal? Bush-Appointed U.S. Attorney ...

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commentarymagazine.com - 12/5/2008

Obama’s Muslim Speech

— commentarymagazine.com — Barack Obama is toying with the idea of making a speech from an Islamic capital within his... first 100 days in office. The scuttlebutt is all about finding the right one. (The consensus is Cairo–which is a terrible idea. An Obama speech there ... (more) Obama’s Muslim Speech

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ISI Head Won't Go To India
Newshoggers.com — ... is the third promise involving civilian control of the ISI which has been turned back by the military in recent months. Indeed, the only promise we don't know for a fact to have been unfulfilled is one made just before the Mumbai attacks that the ISI's political department, the one analysts feel was most heavily involved in using terror groups as proxies, was being disbanded. It would be naive to think the military and the agency intend to keep that one either. In fact, it would be ravingly naive to think that support for using terror groups as proxies was confined to "rogue ...

ISI Head Won't Go To India
Crooks and Liars — ... is the third promise involving civilian control of the ISI which has been turned back by the military in recent months. Indeed, the only promise we don't know for a fact to have been unfulfilled is one made just before the Mumbai attacks that the ISI's political department, the one analysts feel was most heavily involved in using terror groups as proxies, was being disbanded. It would be naive to think the military and the agency intend to keep that one either. In fact, it would be ravingly naive to think that support for using terror groups as proxies was confined to "rogue ...

The Meaning of Mumbai
Antiwar.com Original — ... : "India also has told Pakistan that the attacks were approved by Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, the head of Jamaat ud Dawa, the parent organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba. Mr. Saeed denied the allegation that his group was involved. 'India has always accused me without any evidence,' Mr. Saeed said in an interview with GEO News, a private Pakistan television channel." In assigning responsibility for the Mumbai horror, we enter a world of murky ambivalence. Lashkar-e-Taiba is said to be affiliated, in some vague way, with "rogue" elements of Pakistani intelligence, which is, in turn, ...