Powell Gammill
Letters to the Editor • Central Intelligence Agency
Pakistan Treachery: We Got Stabbed In The Back!
Pakistan betrayed us. They are now arresting C.I.A. informants in the bin Laden raid. Pakistan has never been with us in the hunt for bin Laden. The Al Qaeda leader has never been Pakistan’s enemy. He was a friend that the Pakistani leadership harbored, hidden and protected.
The problem next to Irag, was Afghanistan, and our next problem in that part of the world next to Afghanistan, is Pakistan.The United States has a standing policy on war on terror adopted under the previous Bush Administration -- that this country had declared war on any nation that "harbors terrorists", especially those connected to the 911 treacherous attacks of New York and Washington, D.C. Pakistan harbored Osama bin Laden all the time since we hunted him down like animal he deserved. And all the while Pakistan kept on telling Washington and the whole world that the terror fox we have been hunting down is not and has never been in Pakistan soil.
If we have a partner like that in international counterterrorism to fight "our common enemy", we do not need an enemy like bin Laden to get a stab in the back. It is the hand of Pakistan we were holding in friendship that stabbed us in the back while like a fool that we were, we have been announcing to the world that the Pakistani government is helping us find bin Laden.That kind of treachery can only fool a president like Obama, but not the American people. Obama can neither call the Pakistan government a "traitor" to our bilateral cooperative effort to capture bin Laden dead or alive, nor declare Pakistan as an enemy that harbors terrorists -- when Pakistan was hiding and protecting bin Laden --because here in the United States Obama himself is legally harboring imprisoned Al Qaeda terrorists connected to the 911 New York and Washington bombing.
The captured and imprisoned Muslim terrorists are now protected when Obama gave them the right to a civilian court trial similar to the constitutional right of American citizens they murdered. Like bin Laden under the protection of the Pakistani government, Al Qaeda terrorists enjoy the protective mantle of Islam here in the United States when Obama provided them assurance and comfort by arguing in national television nationwide that he was in favor of the construction of the Muslim Mosque on ground zero to commemorate the triumph of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 while in protest the wounded nation cried in pain. Obama didn't care ... he was determined to defend the constitutional right of Muslims to construct their Mosques anywhere they want even if that was meant to dishonor the dead right on the spot where they were murdered.
Pakistan arresting C.I.A. informants in bin Laden raid is a solid proof that the Pakistani government has never been with us but against us all the time. We have been dropping bombs marked "Aghanistan" – and if Obama is smart enough because it is inevitable, he should now order the Pentagon to prepare bombs to dropped from the sky with markings that reads "Pakistan". It is just a matter of time.
Never again should Pakistan be given an opportunity to stab us in the back.
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2 Comments in Response to Pakistan Treachery: We Got Stabbed In The Back!
Pakistan is an enemy … never has been a "friend" of the United States. In my analytical essay, I call this enemy that operates against us under the radar, the "Pakis".
The covert Pakistani leadership conducts its operation against the U.S. government through Al Qaeda. How the Pakis blind-sided the U.S. in the case of Osama bin Laden – assuring us and the world over that bin Laden was not hiding in Pakistan when all the while they were harboring him and protecting him – is a fait accompli extraordinaire I have to take off my hat in total awe since I left the world of international diplomacy fifteen years ago.
This is the right time to stop our dollar aid to the Pakis, and re-calibrate our bilateral relationship holding Pakistan farther than an arm’s length in future transactions. If our tax money – yours and mine – is to be used by the enemy to kill us, what idea is more insane than that?
We have this Taliban experience – and the Osama bin Laden rationale itself when we crafted Al Qaeda to fight our adversaries in Afghanistan – where we poured in billions and billions of dollars only to realize later on that we invented and funded a phalanx of formidable enemies that were committed to destroy us.
One of those thankless rewards we received in return was this 911 infamy that could never be forgotten. What is always instantaneously forgotten is our tenacity to commit the same error again and again. Our naivety in the conduct of flawed international relations and foreign policy formulation cost us a high price not only in terms of money but also in the loss of lives.
The case of imprisoned terrorist Hassan Ghul is proof that the Pakis – in my opinion -- will assume the responsibility of striking back against the United States to avenge the death of bin Laden. Take note that during his captivity, and without using the military’s interrogation techniques, Ghul provided the C.I.A. information of one of bin Laden’s trusted couriers which later on traced the compound hideout where he was killed.
Ghul was released upon the request of the Pakis government. He is an Al Qaeda operative and an active member of the dreaded Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group reportedly created by the ISI – Pakistan’s equivalent of the C.I.A.
The Pakis fooled the U.S. by promising to keep Ghul in prison. Instead, he was released to Al Qaeda.
Under ISI’s plan for Ghul to rejoin Al Qaeda, my fear that is the next 911 could possibly come from Pakistan’s terror strike force – the Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Pakistan betrayed us. They are now arresting C.I.A. informants in the bin Laden raid. Pakistan has never been with us in the hunt for bin Laden. The Al Qaeda leader has never been Pakistan’s enemy. He was a friend that the Pakistani leadership harbored, hidden and protected.
The problem next to Irag, was Afghanistan, and our next problem in that part of the world next to Afghanistan, is Pakistan.
The United States has a standing policy on war on terror adopted under the previous Bush Administration -- that this country had declared war on any nation that "harbors terrorists", especially those connected to the 911 treacherous attacks of New York and Washington, D.C. Pakistan harbored Osama bin Laden all the time since we hunted him down like animal he deserved. And all the while Pakistan kept on telling Washington and the whole world that the terror fox we have been hunting down is not and has never been in Pakistan soil.
If we have a partner like that in international counterterrorism to fight "our common enemy", we do not need an enemy like bin Laden to get a stab in the back. It is the hand of Pakistan we were holding in friendship that stabbed us in the back while like a fool that we were, we have been announcing to the world that the Pakistani government is helping us find bin Laden.
That kind of treachery can only fool a president like Obama, but not the American people. Obama can neither call the Pakistan government a "traitor" to our bilateral cooperative effort to capture bin Laden dead or alive, nor declare Pakistan as an enemy that harbors terrorists -- when Pakistan was hiding and protecting bin Laden --because here in the United States Obama himself is legally harboring imprisoned Al Qaeda terrorists connected to the 911 New York and Washington bombing.
The captured and imprisoned Muslim terrorists are now protected when Obama gave them the right to a civilian court trial similar to the constitutional right of American citizens they murdered. Like bin Laden under the protection of the Pakistani government, Al Qaeda terrorists enjoy the protective mantle of Islam here in the United States when Obama provided them assurance and comfort by arguing in national television nationwide that he was in favor of the construction of the Muslim Mosque on ground zero to commemorate the triumph of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 while in protest the wounded nation cried in pain. Obama didn't care ... he was determined to defend the constitutional right of Muslims to construct their Mosques anywhere they want even if that was meant to dishonor the dead right on the spot where they were murdered.
Pakistan arresting C.I.A. informants in the bin Laden raid is a solid proof that the Pakistani government has never been with us but against us all the time. We have been dropping bombs marked "Aghanistan" – and if Obama is smart enough because it is inevitable, he should now order the Pentagon to prepare bombs to be dropped from the sky with markings that reads "Pakistan". It is just a matter of time.
Never again should Pakistan be given an opportunity to stab us in the back.