CIA-trained Afghan assassins operating in Pakistan

[Aeon]

How the CIA ran a secret army of 3,000 assassins

By Julius Cavendish in Kabul
Thursday, 23 September 2010

The US Central Intelligence Agency is running and paying for a secret 3,000-strong army of Afghan paramilitaries whose main aim is assassinating Taliban and al-Qa'ida operatives not just in Afghanistan but across the border in neighbouring Pakistan's tribal areas, according to Bob Woodward's explosive book.

Although the CIA has long been known to run clandestine militias in Afghanistan, including one from a base it rents from the Afghan president Hamid Karzai's half-brother in the southern province of Kandahar, the sheer number of militiamen directly under its control have never been publicly revealed.

Woodward's book, Obama's Wars, describes these forces as elite, well-trained units that conduct highly sensitive covert operations into Pakistan as part of a stepped-up campaign against al-Qa'ida and Afghan Taliban havens there. Two US newspapers published the claims after receiving copies of the manuscript.

The secret army is split into "Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams", and is thought to be responsible for the deaths of many Pakistani Taliban fighters who have crossed the border into Afghanistan to fight Nato and Afghan government forces there.

There are ever-increasing numbers of "kill-or-capture" missions undertaken by US Special Forces against Afghan Taliban and foreign fighters, who hope to drive rank-and-file Taliban towards the Afghan government's peace process by eliminating their leaders. The suspicion is that the secret army is working in close tandem with them.

Although no comment has been forthcoming, it is understood that the top US and Nato commander in Afghanistan, Gen David Petraeus, approves of the mission, which bears similarities to the covert assassination campaign against al-Qa'ida in Iraq, which was partially credited with stemming the tide of violence after the country imploded between 2004 and 2007.

The details of the clandestine army have surprised no one in Kabul, the Afghan capital, although the fact that the information is now public is unprecedented. There have been multiple reports of the CIA running its own militias in southern Afghanistan.

The operation also has powerful echoes of clandestine operations of the 1990s, when the CIA recruited and ran a militia inside the Afghan border with the sole purpose of killing Osama bin Laden. The order then that a specially recruited Afghan militia was "to capture him alive" – the result of protracted legal wrangles about when, how and if Osama bin Laden could be killed – doomed efforts to assassinate him before 9/11.

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So at least this is no longer a conspiracy theory. For many Pakistani people, perhaps one step too close in affirming US sponsoring of terrorism inside Pak. Undoubtedly it will raise suspicions even more in that direction.

 

[Aeon]

The CIA and other foreign intelligence agencies have been working in Pakistan for some time now, says political analyst Ahmed Quraishi, and it is no news to the authorities.

Recalling a ten-month old attack on a CIA outstation in Pakistan which involved an agent working for the Jordanian intelligence, Quraishi said the incident became the first indication that: "there are incursions taking place in Pakistan and that the war on terror in the border region of Pakistan is not limited to occasional aerial attacks, CIA-led drone attacks, but that as a matter of fact there is concerted ground activity, not just by the CIA."

Recently, journalist Bob Woodward wrote a book titled "Obama's Wars," which explored the CIA's use of Afghan fighters to hunt Al-Qaeda and the Taliban by infiltrating Pakistani territory, where US troops are not allowed to operate.

The book claims there might be as many as 3,000 Afghan assassins who have been trained and funded by the CIA and are working clandestinely in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

"Obama's Wars" has not yet been released, but has already spurred controversy and heated debates.

However, Quraishi says that, though the book may be a revelation to the public, the fact of foreign intelligence presence in Pakistan has long been known to the country's authorities.

"This thing has been going on for some time and it would be unfair to say that this activity has been going on without the knowledge of at least some parts of the Pakistani political or military establishment," Quraishi said. "This would be a shocker, of course, for the Pakistani public opinion, but I am not sure that this would be a big shock to the Pakistani military establishment."

--RT

 

[sur]

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CIA Army’s murder teams invade Pakistan: Bob Woodward

The CIA calls it its elite Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams. Pakistanis face it as the TTP. The CIA calls it Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams. Pakistan see them as bombs blowing u in mosques and hospitals. The CIA sees its army killing “terrorists”, Pakistanis face an unending killing of its civilians.

The CIA created, controls and pays for a clandestine 3,000-man paramilitary army of local Afghans, known as Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams. Woodward describes these teams as elite, well-trained units that conduct highly sensitive covert operations into Pakistan as part of a stepped-up campaign against al-Qaeda and Afghan Taliban havens there. (Excerpt from Boob Woodward’s book published in the Washington Post).

Woodward book major scoop: CIA army operating in Pakistan
“Obama’s Wars” contains significant revelations about U.S. foreign policy, plus stories of interpersonal sniping
Bob Woodward exposes the 3000 strong “CIA Army” waging war on Pakistan. Pakistanis see it as the TTP attacking Imam Baras and Hospitals, and the BLA blowing up pipelines.
The undeclared, undebated secret war in Pakistan is bigger than we knew, and it’s being conducted in part by CIA-trained Afghans
The CIA created, controls and pays for a clandestine 3,000-man paramilitary army of local Afghans, known as Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams.
Woodward describes these teams as elite, well-trained units that conduct highly sensitive covert operations into Pakistan.
Mr. Woodward reveals the code name for the C.I.A.’s drone missile campaign in Pakistan, Sylvan Magnolia
When NPR (JJ Sutherland, National Public Radio September 22, 2010) asked a US official familiar with operations in Afghanistan he confirmed the existence of these “Counter-terrorism Pursuit Teams” and said
Separately, an advisor to the US military also confirmed the existence of such a paramilitary force and that they were conducting some missions across the border in Pakistan.Just to be clear, that’s two different people speaking on condition of anonymity.
Bruce Riedel and White House Staffer wrote a few months ago that the “Pakistanis have to be convinced to join the war in Afghanistan”. This CIA Army and a spate of bombings in Pakistan are tools to convince the Pakistanis about the war in Afghanistan. As we have noted many times on Rupee News–this “convincing” has been part of the multiple attacks on civilians in Pakistan. Rupee News has been calling this “convincing” the TTP. Bob Woodward calls this “convincing” as “Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams”. Some may not know that the CIA Army is doing–but it is evident as the blood and gore spilt on the streets of Karachi and Peshawar. We see it every day in the form of “Targeted Killings” and attacks on Imam baras, and Mosques. This convincing will continue till 2014 when the build of the US forces leave. Beginning 2011 the “convincing” be see a downward trend. Convinced or not, the fact remains that the US needs Pakistan to get a face saving exit out of Afghanistan. General Kiyani will provide it to America after extracting a pound of flesh in Kashmir.

Bob Woodward’s new book is coming out on Monday (the one with the bad cover art), and both the New York Times and the Washington Post have preview pieces today. You can read those stories here and here.

So what will we likely be hearing about for the next month? General David Petraeus once referred to top Obama adviser David Axelrod as “a complete spin doctor,” according to the book, titled “Obama’s Wars.” Joe Biden once called Afghanistan guru Richard Holbrooke “the most egotistical bastard I’ve ever met.” And national security adviser James Jones once called Obama’s political aides “water bugs.”

But what should we be talking about from the book?

The undeclared, undebated secret war in Pakistan is bigger than we knew, and it’s being conducted in part by CIA-trained Afghans:

The CIA created, controls and pays for a clandestine 3,000-man paramilitary army of local Afghans, known as Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams. Woodward describes these teams as elite, well-trained units that conduct highly sensitive covert operations into Pakistan as part of a stepped-up campaign against al-Qaeda and Afghan Taliban havens there.

The Obama Administration seems to be enamored with a drone-based foreign policy:

Mr. Woodward reveals the code name for the C.I.A.’s drone missile campaign in Pakistan, Sylvan Magnolia, and writes that the White House was so enamored of the program that Mr. Emanuel would regularly call the C.I.A. director, Leon E. Panetta, asking, “Who did we get today?”

President Obama wanted out of Afghanistan last year.
And although the president agreed to triple troop levels in the embattled country, some in Obama’s national security team doubt that his strategy in Afghanistan will even be successful, according to a new book by journalist Bob Woodward.
The book also reveals that the U.S. has intelligence showing that Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been diagnosed with manic-depression and that he was taking medication for it.
This is how President Obama defines victory in Afghanistan:

Obama told Woodward in the July interview that he didn’t think about the Afghan war in the “classic” terms of the United States winning or losing. “I think about it more in terms of: Do you successfully prosecute a strategy that results in the country being stronger rather than weaker at the end?” he said.

And this is the man who the United States is relying on over there:

The book also reports that the United States has intelligence showing that manic-depression has been diagnosed in President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and that he was on medication, but adds no details

Woodward’s book presents an opportunity to explore and debate issues that haven’t gotten much airing — the war in Pakistan, the drone strikes, Obama’s continuation of various Bush-era policies. Unfortunately, it comes wrapped up with another opportunity: to obsess over sketchily sourced stories of interpersonal sniping within the administration. Justin Elliott is a Salon reporter. Reach him by email at jelliott@salon.com and follow him on Twitter @ElliottJustin More Justin Elliott

Spencer Ackerman of Wired reports:

the Counterterrorist Pursuit Teams follow a more traditional, decades-old CIA pattern. When it’s politically or militarily unfeasible to launch a direct U.S. operation, then it’s time to train, equip and fund some local proxy forces to do it for you. Welcome back to the anti-Soviet Afghanistan Mujahideen of the 1980s, or the Northern Alliance that helped the U.S. push the Taliban out of power in 2001.

But that same history also shows that the U.S. can’t control those proxy forces. Splits within the mujahideen after the Soviet withdrawal (and the end of CIA cash) led to Afghanistan’s civil war in the 1990s, which paved the way for the rise of the Taliban. One of those CIA-sponsored fighters was Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, now a key U.S. adversary in Afghanistan. And during the 2001 push to Kabul, a Northern Alliance military commander, Abdul Rashid Dostum, killed hundreds and maybe even thousands of Taliban prisoners. He was on the CIA’s payroll at the time.

Then there are the risks that the Counterterrorist Pursuit Teams pose within Afghanistan. CIA has to recruit those fighters from somewhere. While the agency wouldn’t answer questions about how where its proxy fighters come from, the CIA also pays for a Kandahar-based militia loyal to local powerbroker Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president’s brother. Fearing that the entrenchment of such warlords will ultimately undermine the Afghan government, the U.S. military is trying to limit the influence of such warlords by changing its contracting rules. CIA may be less concerned. Wired.

They some wonder why they hate us!

 

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CIA-trained Afghan assassins operating in Pakistan

 

[Aeon]

Elite anti-terror kill teams, run by America's intelligence agency, have now taken the US-led war beyond Afghanistan. Those are the claims in a new book called 'Obama's Wars', by veteran Journalist Bob Woodward. He reveals that a secret army of some 3-thousand Afghan fighters, sent to hunt Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, have now infiltrated Pakistan. RT talks to Ahmed Quraishi from the think tank "Project For Pakistan In 21st Century".

--RT

 

[SparklingCrescent]

US journalist accuses 'Blackwater' of being behind false flag terrorist attacks in Pak​

2010-09-25 17:40:00
A Washington-based investigative journalist- Wayne Madsen- has claimed that a CIA contractor firm- XE Services- formerly Blackwater, has been carrying out false flag terrorist attacks in Pakistan.

"WMR has learned from a deep background source that Xe Services, the company formerly known as Blackwater, has been conducting false flag terrorist attacks in Pakistan that are later blamed on the entity called Pakistani Taliban," The News quoted Madsen, a member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), Association for Intelligence Officers (AFIO), and the National Press Club, as saying.

"However, it is Xe cells operating in Karachi, Peshawar, Islamabad and other cities and towns that have, according to our source who witnessed the US-led false flag terrorist operations in Pakistan. Bombings of civilians is the favoured false flag event for the Xe team and are being carried out under the orders of the CIA," he claimed, adding that the source was now under threat from the FBI and CIA for revealing facts about the false flag operations in Pakistan.

Earlier this year, Wayne Madsen Report (WMR) had claimed that "intelligence sources in Asia and Europe are reporting that the CIA contractor firm XE Services, formerly Blackwater, has been carrying out false flag terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, Somalia, the Sinkiang region of China, Pakistan, Iran, and Iraq, in some cases with the assistance of Israeli Mossad and Indian RAW personnel. "

He also stated that although the Pakistan Taliban had taken responsibility for the recent bomb attack of a pro-Palestine Shia rally in Quetta that killed 54 people, it was "actually carried out by one of the Xe covert cells in the country, acting in concert with the CIA, Israeli Mossad, and Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)."

Madsen said that the ultimate goal of those cells was "to destabilize Pakistan to the point where it has no choice but to allow the Western powers to secure its nuclear weapons and remove them from the country, in a manner similar to the procurement by the West of South Africa's nuclear weapons, prior to the stepping down of the white minority government in the early 1990s." (ANI)


Blackwater/Xe cells conducting false flag terrorist attacks in Pakistan

(WMR) — WMR has learned from a deep background source that Xe Services, the company formerly known as Blackwater, has been conducting false flag terrorist attacks in Pakistan that are later blamed on the entity called “Pakistani Taliban.”
Only recently did the US State Department designate the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known as the Pakistani Taliban, a terrorist group. The group is said by the State Department to be an off-shoot of the Afghan Taliban, which had links to “Al-Qaeda” before the 9/11 attacks on the United States. TTP’s leader is Hakimullah Mehsud, said to be 30-years old and operating from Pakistan’s remote tribal region with an accomplice named Wali Ur Rehman. In essence, this new team of Mehsud and Rehman appears to be the designated replacement for Osama Bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri as the new leaders of the so-called “Global Jihad” against the West.

However, it is Xe cells operating in Karachi, Peshawar, Islamabad and other cities and towns that have, according to our source who witnessed the U.S.-led false flag terrorist operations in Pakistan. Bombings of civilians is the favored false flag event for the Xe team and are being carried out under the orders of the CIA.

However, the source is now under threat from the FBI and CIA for revealing the nature of the false flag operations in Pakistan. If the source does not agree to cooperate with the CIA and FBI, with an offer of a salary, the threat of false criminal charges being brought for aiding and abetting terrorism looms over the source.

The Blackwater/Xe involvement in terrorist attacks in Pakistan have been confirmed by the former head of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), General Hamid Gul, according to another source familiar with the current Xe covert operations. Blackwater has been accused of smuggling weapons and munitions into Pakistan.

Earlier this year WMR reported that ”intelligence sources in Asia and Europe are reporting that the CIA contractor firm XE Services, formerly Blackwater, has been carrying out ‘false flag’ terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, Somalia, the Sinkiang region of China, Pakistan, Iran, and Iraq, in some cases with the assistance of Israeli Mossad and Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) personnel . . . A number of terrorist bombings in Pakistan have been blamed by Pakistani Islamic leaders on Blackwater, Mossad, and RAW. Blackwater has been accused of hiring young Pakistanis in Peshawar to carry out false flag bombings that are later blamed on the Pakistani Taliban, also known as Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan. One such bombing took place during the Ashura procession in Karachi last month. The terrorist attacks allegedly are carried out by a secret Blackwater-XE/CIA/Joint Special Operations Command forward operating base in Karachi. The XE Services component was formerly known as Blackwater Select, yet another subsidiary in a byzantine network of shell and linked companies run by Blackwater/Xe on behalf of the CIA and the Pentagon. On December 3, 2009, the Pakistani newspaper Nawa-i-Waqtreported: ‘Vast land near the Tarbela dam has also been given to the Americans where they have established bases for their army and air forces. There, the Indian RAW [Research and Analysis Wing] and Israeli Mossad are working in collaboration with the CIA to carry out extremist activities in Pakistan.’”

The bombing of a CIA base in Khost, Afghanistan last December was blamed on the TTP but may have actually involved the covert Xe/CIA program to stage false flag attacks and something went drastically wrong with the operation that resulted in the deaths of seven CIA personnel, including the Khost station chief. The TTP was also linked to the failed Times Square “bombing” last May.

Responsibility for the recent bomb attack of a pro-Palestine Shi’a rally in Quetta that killed 54 people was claimed by the Pakistan Taliban, but it was actually carried out by one of the Xe covert cells in the country, acting in concert with the CIA, Israeli Mossad, and Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). The ultimate goal is to destabilize Pakistan to the point where it has no choice but to allow the Western powers to secure its nuclear weapons and remove them from the country in a manner similar to the procurement by the West of South Africa’s nuclear weapons prior to the stepping down of the white minority government in the early 1990s.

WMR has been informed that any American, whether or not he or she holds a security clearance, is subject to U.S. national security prohibitions from discussing the U.S.- sponsored terrorist attacks in Pakistan. In one case, a threat was made against an individual who personally witnessed the Xe/CIA terrorist operations but is now threatened, along with family members.

Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and nationally-distributed columnist. He is the editor and publisher of the Wayne Madsen Report (subscription required).

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I bet this blackwater thing has a hand in this CIA trained Assassin group. .

 

[Tuahaa]

It's as if they're trying to increase hostilities between the two countries...

One hiccup by these teams and Pakistani citizens will have another view on Afghanistan.

 

[BATMAN]

Foreign invasion of Pakistan is not limited to Afghan-US coalition.
TTP attacks clearly hints that they have been using the much older and well established network of Indian agencies.

To be exact, war on Pakistani nation and its military was multi dimensional.
It ranged from political coup, media war, diplomatic isolation and various engineered operations.

If this US-RAW coalition did not had support from Pakistan political govt. than it would be difficult to bring Pakistan down so fast.

Recent floods are one examples where participation of members of assemblies can be seen in bold, which facilitated the engineered catastrophe by breaking only right banks of the river indus and not to mention the role of judiciary which halted the project of strengthening of river banks, which was launched by last govt.

 

[Omar1984]

CIA Army’s kill teams murdering Pakistanis​

The CIA calls it its elite Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams. Pakistanis face it as the TTP. The CIA calls it Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams. Pakistan see them as bombs blowing u in mosques and hospitals. The CIA sees its army killing “terrorists”, Pakistanis face an unending killing of its civilians.

The CIA created, controls and pays for a clandestine 3,000-man paramilitary army of local Afghans, known as Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams. Woodward describes these teams as elite, well-trained units that conduct highly sensitive covert operations into Pakistan as part of a stepped-up campaign against al-Qaeda and Afghan Taliban havens there. (Excerpt from Boob Woodward’s book published in the Washington Post).

◦Woodward book major scoop: CIA army operating in Pakistan

◦“Obama’s Wars” contains significant revelations about U.S. foreign policy, plus stories of interpersonal sniping

◦Bob Woodward exposes the 3000 strong “CIA Army” waging war on Pakistan. Pakistanis see it as the TTP attacking Imam Baras and Hospitals, and the BLA blowing up pipelines.

◦The undeclared, undebated secret war in Pakistan is bigger than we knew, and it’s being conducted in part by CIA-trained Afghans

◦The CIA created, controls and pays for a clandestine 3,000-man paramilitary army of local Afghans, known as Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams.

◦Woodward describes these teams as elite, well-trained units that conduct highly sensitive covert operations into Pakistan.

◦Mr. Woodward reveals the code name for the C.I.A.’s drone missile campaign in Pakistan, Sylvan Magnolia

◦When NPR (JJ Sutherland, National Public Radio September 22, 2010) asked a US official familiar with operations in Afghanistan he confirmed the existence of these “Counter-terrorism Pursuit Teams” and said

◦Separately, an advisor to the US military also confirmed the existence of such a paramilitary force and that they were conducting some missions across the border in Pakistan.Just to be clear, that’s two different people speaking on condition of anonymity.

Bruce Riedel and White House Staffer wrote a few months ago that the “Pakistanis have to be convinced to join the war in Afghanistan”. This CIA Army and a spate of bombings in Pakistan are tools to convince the Pakistanis about the war in Afghanistan. As we have noted many times on Rupee News–this “convincing” has been part of the multiple attacks on civilians in Pakistan. Rupee News has been calling this “convincing” the TTP. Bob Woodward calls this “convincing” as “Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams”. Some may not know that the CIA Army is doing–but it is evident as the blood and gore spilt on the streets of Karachi and Peshawar. We see it every day in the form of “Targeted Killings” and attacks on Imam baras, and Mosques. This convincing will continue till 2014 when the build of the US forces leave. Beginning 2011 the “convincing” be see a downward trend. Convinced or not, the fact remains that the US needs Pakistan to get a face saving exit out of Afghanistan. General Kiyani will provide it to America after extracting a pound of flesh in Kashmir.

Bob Woodward’s new book is coming out on Monday (the one with the bad cover art), and both the New York Times and the Washington Post have preview pieces today. You can read those stories here and here.

So what will we likely be hearing about for the next month? General David Petraeus once referred to top Obama adviser David Axelrod as “a complete spin doctor,” according to the book, titled “Obama’s Wars.” Joe Biden once called Afghanistan guru Richard Holbrooke “the most egotistical bastard I’ve ever met.” And national security adviser James Jones once called Obama’s political aides “water bugs.”

But what should we be talking about from the book?

The undeclared, undebated secret war in Pakistan is bigger than we knew, and it’s being conducted in part by CIA-trained Afghans:

The CIA created, controls and pays for a clandestine 3,000-man paramilitary army of local Afghans, known as Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams. Woodward describes these teams as elite, well-trained units that conduct highly sensitive covert operations into Pakistan as part of a stepped-up campaign against al-Qaeda and Afghan Taliban havens there.

The Obama Administration seems to be enamored with a drone-based foreign policy:

Mr. Woodward reveals the code name for the C.I.A.’s drone missile campaign in Pakistan, Sylvan Magnolia, and writes that the White House was so enamored of the program that Mr. Emanuel would regularly call the C.I.A. director, Leon E. Panetta, asking, “Who did we get today?”

◦President Obama wanted out of Afghanistan last year.

◦And although the president agreed to triple troop levels in the embattled country, some in Obama’s national security team doubt that his strategy in Afghanistan will even be successful, according to a new book by journalist Bob Woodward.

◦The book also reveals that the U.S. has intelligence showing that Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been diagnosed with manic-depression and that he was taking medication for it.

This is how President Obama defines victory in Afghanistan:

Obama told Woodward in the July interview that he didn’t think about the Afghan war in the “classic” terms of the United States winning or losing. “I think about it more in terms of: Do you successfully prosecute a strategy that results in the country being stronger rather than weaker at the end?” he said.

And this is the man who the United States is relying on over there:

The book also reports that the United States has intelligence showing that manic-depression has been diagnosed in President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and that he was on medication, but adds no details

Woodward’s book presents an opportunity to explore and debate issues that haven’t gotten much airing — the war in Pakistan, the drone strikes, Obama’s continuation of various Bush-era policies. Unfortunately, it comes wrapped up with another opportunity: to obsess over sketchily sourced stories of interpersonal sniping within the administration. Justin Elliott is a Salon reporter. Reach him by email at jelliott@salon.com and follow him on Twitter @ElliottJustin More Justin Elliott

Spencer Ackerman of Wired reports:

the Counterterrorist Pursuit Teams follow a more traditional, decades-old CIA pattern. When it’s politically or militarily unfeasible to launch a direct U.S. operation, then it’s time to train, equip and fund some local proxy forces to do it for you. Welcome back to the anti-Soviet Afghanistan Mujahideen of the 1980s, or the Northern Alliance that helped the U.S. push the Taliban out of power in 2001.

But that same history also shows that the U.S. can’t control those proxy forces. Splits within the mujahideen after the Soviet withdrawal (and the end of CIA cash) led to Afghanistan’s civil war in the 1990s, which paved the way for the rise of the Taliban. One of those CIA-sponsored fighters was Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, now a key U.S. adversary in Afghanistan. And during the 2001 push to Kabul, a Northern Alliance military commander, Abdul Rashid Dostum, killed hundreds and maybe even thousands of Taliban prisoners. He was on the CIA’s payroll at the time.

Then there are the risks that the Counterterrorist Pursuit Teams pose within Afghanistan. CIA has to recruit those fighters from somewhere. While the agency wouldn’t answer questions about how where its proxy fighters come from, the CIA also pays for a Kandahar-based militia loyal to local powerbroker Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president’s brother. Fearing that the entrenchment of such warlords will ultimately undermine the Afghan government, the U.S. military is trying to limit the influence of such warlords by changing its contracting rules. CIA may be less concerned. Wired.

They some wonder why they hate us!