Pak bluffing US in war on terror: ex-CIA officer
Washington: Pakistan was “double dealing” the US on the war on terror for years, says a former CIA analyst, who believes it will be difficult to break the Pakistani intelligence agencies' ties with Islamist groups.
Bruce Riedel, who retired from the Central Intelligence Agency, in 2006 after 29 years, speaks angrily about Pakistan under President Pervez Musharraf for extracting billions of dollars from Washington even while it allowed al-Qaeda to regroup in its tribal lands.
"We had a partner that was double-dealing us," the International Herald Tribune quoted Riedel as saying at his Washington home. "Anyone can be snookered and double dealt. But after six years you have to start to figure it out."
Riedel's views carry weight because he is a terrorism expert on President-elect Barack Obama's transition team. He is one of those who think that the terror network in Pakistan's tribal areas poses the biggest security threat to the US.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
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