CIA, NSA, DIA and ISI and Special forces in Paki

Three top US agencies involved in Waziristan operations: New Yorker

* Report says Abu Laith al-Libi was one of most prominent victims of programme

By Khalid Hasan

WASHINGTON: Three of the top United States clandestine agencies, along with US Special Forces and Pakistani intelligence outfits, are targeting the Taliban leadership in Waziristan, according to a report published here.

The exclusive report in the New Yorker by Seymour Hersch says that the programme is being executed by professionals from the National Security Agency, the CIA and the Defence Intelligence Agency, who are "right in there with the Special Forces and Pakistani intelligence, and they're dealing with serious bad guys". A source told the American investigative reporter: "We have to be really careful in calling in the missiles. We have to hit certain houses at certain times. The people on the ground are watching through binoculars a few hundred yards away and calling specific locations, in latitude and longitude. We keep the Predator loitering until the targets go into a house, and we have to make sure our guys are far enough away so they don't get hit."

Prominent victim: One of the most prominent victims of the programme, a former official said, was Abu Laith al-Libi, a senior Taliban commander who was killed on January 31, reportedly in a missile strike that also killed 11 other people. The Washington Post reported on March 26 on the increasing number of successful strikes against Taliban and other insurgent units in Pakistan's Tribal Areas. A follow-up article noted that, in response, the Taliban had killed "dozens of people" suspected of providing information to the US and its allies on the whereabouts of Taliban leaders. Many of the victims were thought to be American spies, and their executions — a beheading, in one case — were videotaped and distributed by DVD as a warning to others.

Another ex-US intelligence official, commenting on the US attempting something similar in Iran, warned, "It's one thing to engage in selective strikes and assassinations in Waziristan and another in Iran. The White House believes that one size fits all, but the legal issues surrounding extrajudicial killings in Waziristan are less of a problem because Al Qaeda and the Taliban cross the border into Afghanistan and back again, often with US and NATO forces in hot pursuit. The situation is not nearly as clear in the Iranian case. All the considerations — judicial, strategic, and political — are different in Iran."

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Begining of the End

Gerald


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Polishing the Predators

Source: Wikipedia

The latest Predator strike, on March 16, killed about 20 in Shahnawaz Kot ;
a Feb. 28 strike killed 12 foreign militants in the village of Kaloosha ;
Jan. 29 strike killed 13 people, including senior al-Qaeda commander Abu Laith al-Libi, in North Waziristan.

The pace is increasing, we are not due for another Predator strike till around the second week of April.

Looking for a Tall guy with a O2 bottle.

G

Tierney: Pakistan will cooperate with US

Boston Globe

- Mar 29, 2008

- 13 hours ago

Pakistan's military has vowed to kill or capture the alleged leader of those attacks, Baitullah Mehsud, now the presumed head of Pakistan's Taliban movement

US-Afghan-Pakistan military centre has been opened on volatile border 29 Mar 2008 17:57, CANOE
... to co-ordinate in the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaida. The countries have a history ... however, that fighters do cross into Afghanistan. Insurgents have also increased their attacks in Pakistan ...

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al Qaeda's #3 gone, an opportunity.

Head trips: Paradigms


al Qaeda's #3 gone, opportunity.

Abu Laith al-Libi, has been killed.

He was Ayman al Zawahri's best bud, his right hand and possibly the only person to know where
Biny and Zee are hiding.

Now Abu Laith al-Libi was traveling with his best and somebody very stable was left in charge,
someone who would never be a threat to Abu Laith al-Libi.

Not a 'milk toast' but not a Leader/threat either.
He is left floundering around trying to make connections back to Biny et al.

But its going be up to Biny and Zee to pick someone to go and make contact, and must decide who to contact, not an easy decision considering security considerations, who is loyal, not watched, and will keep his mouth shut.

Probably somebody clean. ( No record or prior connection to aQ )
And there is no need to make contact early, not until aQ leadership want to make a statement.

Paradigm Intel suggests aQ is in Afghan, as By'atullah Mahsoud is not coming to the Talibans rescue in Afghan and was fired.

USA is getting close, for aQ to bring that much pressure on the Taliban of Afghan to fire Paki Taliban for not following orders and coming to aQ rescue in Afghan. A huge split in the Taliban.

Gerald


Background noise indicates Gov. Intel working something accross the board, everybody is workig it. LMGURL0
They got it took most of one day though.
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