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The Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and National Security (Vezarat-e Ettela’at Jomhuri-e Eslami) along with the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC or Pasdaran) are learning to conduct electronic warfare in real-time, but are carrying it out in a particularly Iranian way.
Much like the police response so far in the streets, they have largely avoided draconian responses to demonstrators. They continue to throttle internet connectivity and conduct spotty blockages of sites, but have not shut down Internet access – even in response to external Denial of Service attacks launched from abroad. They have throttled cell phone networks, but this too has been spotty and rather selective. Reports are circulating that they appear to be trying to round up Twitter account holders, but given the continuous stream of posts by known opposition members, they are either very bad at what they do or are holding back. Or this itself is a rumor, purposefully planted (which, if true, is producing exactly the opposite effect intended).
One reason for the authorities to stifle, bully, and threaten but not completely suppress the protesters is to create opportunities for spoofing accounts on various social media sites like Twitter, claiming to be anti-government protesters and spreading all manner of rumors. In one instance quickly identified as being false, a report of large Army contingent – with tanks, no less – was approaching Tehran.
Another reason for the particular approach relates more directly to the nature and current state of Iranian politics, and the need to create a space for negotiation in the coming weeks. It’s in no group’s interest to simply mass-arrest or kill large numbers of demonstrators. Deploying the Basiji thugs is one thing; sending in the Army and IRGC regulars to clean house is quite another. At the same time, the protests have weakened the current leadership in ways it may not yet fully appreciate, which adds considerable risk and uncertainty to the current situation and whatever backroom dealing ensues. Either way, this past week and the next few weeks ahead could set a very different course for the country.

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May 28, 2009
by Henry Makow Ph.D.
+ "Richard Tomlinson, an agent who publicly accused MI-6 of involvement in the murder of Princess Diana possibly took part in the crime. "Tomlinson had chipped Henri Paul in the kitchens beforehand. He had been on one of the large, black motorbikes hounding Diana's car and watched as she cried out for help after the accident without doing a thing - he was too busy securing his photographs of the ambulance as a blackmailing threat to MI6..."A few years the CIA had claimed that it “solid”evidence” that Iraq had WMDs and was connected to Al-Qaeda. Even the flimsy articles presented turned out to be totally false.
Now the CIA has “proof” that Al-Qaeda is in Pakistan and also that the ISI is helping the Taliban in Afghanistan. This CIA line defies logic. The recent attack on Lahore carried out by Indian sponsored Afghans proves the vacuity the CIA argument.
However the US Adminstration will continue to bomb Pakistani villages with drones.
The CIA has almost always been wrong on predicting major events. It has been a total failure in monitoring real and perceived enemies. Filling Gitmo, renditions and torture are not success stories that should be rewarded.
The CIA has once again come up with policy statements for the new President. In fact the new policy is partly based upon the recommendations of the intelligence agencies.
Selective Amnesia of Americans: Pakistan is the most mistreated friend in the world. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the organization that gave us the fiasco of Bay of Pigs becuase it didn’t have a clue that the Cuban had Russian missiles hidden in their closets. By the time they found out it was too late. The CIA is the same organization that couldn’t predict the simple fact that the USSR was ready to implode, a fact known to almost everyone on the streets of Moscow or Kabul. Justifying the Banality of a brutal Occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan: The Thinktanks attempt to complete the circle of complicity between a sycophantic press, and a non-inquisitive servile public. The nation is forced to accept the only argument that it is being repeatedly inundated with
So far 546,000 have registered as internally displaced people (IDPs) according to figures provided by Rabia Ali, spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and Maqbool Shah Roghani, administrator for IDPs at the Commission for Afghan Refugees. The commissioner’s office says there are thousands more unregistered people who have taken refuge with relatives and friends or who are in rented accommodation. Talking Peace in Prague, Dropping Bombs in Pakistan, Hard Rain Keeps Falling By CHRIS FLOYD
The pseudo liberals are quiet about the suffering of more than half a million people who are suffering. They are always concerned about the Mukhtara Mai and Chand Bibi. They seem unconcerned about the 250,000 women who have suffering becuase of the US drone bombing.
The “Firm” participated in the Mossedegh snafu in which they an elected and popular prime minister and installed Reza Shah as emperor. The CIA is the same organization that didn’t have a clue about the popularity of Imam Khomeni and ’till the last moment continued to support the Shah of Iran. “The Company” is the same spy agency that tried to buy arms from Iran to fund the Contras in Nicragua. The CIA was unable to predict the USSR’s invasion of Afghanstan and it took them two years to join the Pakistanis in their war against the Communist invaders.
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The US is concerned about militants in border areas
In recent days three top American generals have turned their guns on Pakistan, accusing elements of its main intelligence agency, the ISI, of supporting Taliban and al-Qaeda militants.
The unprecedented broadside followed the announcement by the US President Barack Obama of a new strategy for Afghanistan.
Mr Obamacited as its cornerstone the need to destroy militant safe havens in the Pakistani tribal belt along the Afghan border, something he knows can’t be achieved without complete cooperation from the country’s army and intelligence.
To win, or compel, such support, the president and his generals have offered a mixture of incentives and warnings: for example, an increase in civilian aid alongside a warning that there’s no “blank cheque” for the military if it doesn’t perform.

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The charges against the ISI seem to be part of the latter. They are not new, but have never before been made so publicly.
The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, said elements of the ISI maintain links with militants on Pakistan’s borders with both Afghanistan and India.
General David Petraeus, head of the US Central Command, spoke of cases “in the fairly recent past” where the ISI appeared to have warned militants that their positions had been discovered. American leverage in South Asia, By Barbara Plett, BBC News, Islamabad
Will The Algeriafication of Pakistan, & the Egyptianization of Bangladesh yield an Iranian type of revolution? The CIA is the same government agency that confirmed that there were WMDs in Iraq. This CIA is the one that supported and created the Taliban and now hides that fact. 2009: Obama’s South Asian policy: A Marshall Plan for AfPak
And we are supposed to believe the CIA and make our decisions based to the current analysis of world affairs.
Pakistani steadfastness is resolute and unbending. Many liberals and foreign think tanks confuse the politeness as confusion or wishy washy behavior. History has proven the Pakistanis have never compromised on three issues.
1) Friendship with China
2) Liberation of Kashmir
3) Elimination of occupation from Afghanistan
For the past sixty years, Pakistan has helped to bring China into the international area by fist recognizing it as a state, then pulling it into dialogue with the US and the world. Pakistan was instrumental in assisting China in consolidating its boundaries. It gave up huge parts of its territory so that China could gain a land route to Tibet. The pact in Aksai Chin prevented the fragmentation of China by eliminating the threat from India which was trying to extricate Tibet from China and incorporate it into Bharat.
Pakistan has worked with China to provide it with the latest technology and designs in aircraft and other areas. This has helped China build world class planes.
Collusion charge
According to the New York Times, Pakistani support to Taliban commanders extends to “money, military supplies and strategic planning guidance”.
Last year Washington’s suspicions were such that it scaled down intelligence sharing with the ISI, especially after accusing it of involvement in the July bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul.
The charge of collusion is rigorously denied by Pakistani officials.
They insist top levels of the army and intelligence agencies were purged of ideological officers after 2001, when the government dropped its open support for the Taliban and fell in with what the US called its War on Terror.
They point out that Pakistan has lost more soldiers in fighting the Taliban and Al Qaeda on the Afghan border than all of the NATO forces combined; and that American officials acknowledge the ISI has captured more Al Qaeda operatives than any other intelligence agency.
Within the security establishment there is a belief that the ISI is being used as a scapegoat for coalition failures in Afghanistan.
However, few independent Pakistani analysts doubt the intelligence agency maintains links with Islamist militants, especially the Afghan Taliban who have sanctuary in the border region.
“The army will operate against militant groups that it defines as anti-Pakistan,” says one informed observer who spoke off-the-record.
“But it will not go after those groups that have a purely Afghan agenda, like the Afghan Taliban. Not at least until the United States listens to what the army regards as Pakistan’s legitimate regional concerns.” American leverage in South Asia, By Barbara Plett, BBC News, Islamabad
Russia ignored the steadfastness of the Pakistanis at its own peril. The USSR assisted Pakistan’s archenemy in 1971. As payback Pakistan defeated the Soviet Union in Afghanistan which led to its implosion.
Bharat has underestimated the Pakistanis and has never been able to gobble up Kashmir.
American sanctioned Pakistan after the 1965 war. These arms sanctions lasted ’till the Afghan war in 1980. After the Afghan war was over, the US again imposed sanctions on Pakistan which lasted a decade. After 2001 the miserly “aid” given to Pakistan was a joke and a half. Washington’s aid to Iraq was $605 Billion in Iraq. The aid to Afghanistan was $143 Billion. Pakistan got $5 Billion.
Strategic depth?
There are mixed views here about what those concerns are.
No state can be successfully pressured into acts it considers suicidal
Ahmed Rashid and Barnett Rubin Foreign Affairs magazine
Some believe the military has never given up its policy of “strategic depth”: the belief that in order to defend itself against its traditional enemy, India, to the east, it needs a pro-Pakistan government (like the Taliban) in Afghanistan, to the west.
Others say it wants a “neutral” Afghanistan.
But Kabul is not neutral as far as the army is concerned.
Its government is full of factions hostile to Islamabad and closely allied with India, Pakistan’s great regional rival. And India is expanding its influence in the country.
This is all the more troubling because Pakistan’s worried about its borders.
Afghanistan has never recognised the boundary drawn by the British, known as the Durrand Line. And the dispute with India over the Himalayan region of Kashmir continues.
US troops carry out joint operations with the new Afghan security forces
In such circumstances, the Taliban are an asset, not an adversary for the ISI, says the observer.
“The Pakistan army knows that it and the Taliban have Pashtun support on both sides of the Durand line. This gives it leverage, and means it can signal to the United States that it will not be abandoned in any Afghan deal.”
Prior to his election, Mr Obama recognised that Pakistani peace with India was key to stability in Afghanistan.
Since his inauguration, however, he has dropped any suggestion of an initiative on Kashmir in the face of Indian objections.
Now, he hopes a mixture of carrot and stick will force a rethink of Pakistan’s security calculation.
But for Pakistan’s security establishment, its concerns – the presence of India in Afghanistan, Kabul’s refusal to recognise the border, the festering Kashmir dispute – are strategic threats far greater than those posed by Islamist militants.
“The concept of pressuring Pakistan is flawed,” Ahmed Rashid and Barnett Rubin have written in the Foreign Affairs magazine. “No state can be successfully pressured into acts it considers suicidal.”
Ultimately America’s leverage is limited: in pushing too much, it may lose even the limited cooperation it has. American leverage in South Asia, By Barbara Plett, BBC News, Islamabad




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