
American intelligence agencies have concluded that members of Pakistan's powerful spy service helped plan the deadly July 7 bombing of India's embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, according to United States government officials.
Besides this being what could be considered an act of state-sponsored terrorism, this is an attack by Pakistan upon India. There are not two countries that have historically gotten along. Both are nuclear armed.
What I can't work out is why the hell this is being released. At least as long as it wasn't, Pakistan had plausible deniability there. Besides being an erstwhile ally in the war on an abstract noun, it's just not in America's best interest to have Pakistan and India trading blows.
I think the US intelligence services have determined that the state-within-a-state that is the ISI is simply not on our side and is giving the de juregovernment of Pakistan a choice.
Misleading tile.
American officials said that the communications were intercepted before the July 7 bombing, and that the C.I.A. emissary, Stephen R. Kappes, the agency's deputy director, had been ordered to Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, even before the attack. The intercepts were not detailed enough to warn of any specific attack.
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