Sunday, February 21, 2010

Mullah’s arrest is ‘own goal’ for US

Things are never as they first appear in intelligence and the recent wave of arrests is analyzed here:

Analysis of Pakistan arrest

“The timing of this arrest was very peculiar,” said Barmak Pazhwak, a senior official for Afghanistan and Pakistan at the United States Institute of Peace, a think tank. “The fact he was one of the key Taliban leaders advocating talks suggests the Pakistanis either want more control or to sabotage the process altogether.”