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ISI stops intelligence sharing with CIA 04:46 AM May 16, 2011 Pakistan's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), has broken off relations with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), in protest at the American operation to kill Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, according to The Sunday Telegraph. It said that agents of ISI - which prides itself on arresting a series of key terrorists including the 911 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - are refusing to share details of suspects or plots with their counterparts in the United States. "They are furious. They handed over telephone intercepts in 2009 that were crucial in leading to Osama's courier - the key breakthrough in the hunt," said a source briefed on relations between the two countries. "Then four months ago they were told there was nothing in it. It was what the Americans called a "cold lead". Since then they have been left out completely out of the loop." Officials in the US have briefed journalists to say they stopped sharing information as they feared Islamist sympathisers within Pakistani security forces would tip-off Osama - ruining the best lead they had ever had. Lieutenant-General Talat Masood, a military analyst, said the stand-off would raise the threat to American cities and to NATO-led troops from plots hatched in Pakistan's tribal regions, headquarters of Al Qaeda-linked militant groups. "There are implications for both the US and international forces in Afghanistan, so the Americans will be very interested in getting the relationship back on track," he said. However, politicians in Pakistan are intent on making the US pay for an apparently unauthorised raid on its soil. On Friday night, Pakistan's Parliament called for a review of the country's relationship with the US. MPs also unanimously passed a resolution urging a ban on NATO transit convoys taking supplies, from the port of Karachi to Afghanistan, unless the US ends its controversial drone attacks. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH <http://www.todayonline.com/World/Worldinbrief/EDC110516-0000216/ISI-stops-i ntelligence-sharing-with-CIA> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
