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September 12, 2008 - 3:16 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-09-12 23:06:28

Washington Post
Saturday, September 13, 2008; Page A10

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091200124.html?hpid=topnews

A Pakistani intelligence official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the strikes have genuinely angered some Pakistani military officials and have raised suspicions among rank-and-file soldiers that public protests by the government are empty rhetoric.

While there is general agreement within the military that the United States should be allowed to strike legitimate targets in Pakistan’s tribal areas, there is little agreement on what constitutes a “legitimate target,” the intelligence official said.

The intelligence official said many in Pakistan’s clandestine ISI believe that Haqqani, who received support from the Pakistani agency and the CIA during the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, had provided intelligence officials with valuable information about other Taliban networks that had been attacking Pakistani security targets.
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You always have to remember that when you’re talking about pakistan — the compass no longer registers true north.