U.S. Funding Attacks on Americans via Pakistan

The government of Pakistan, which receives billions in U.S. government aid each year, is using its intelligence services to support attacks on American military and diplomatic personnel in Afghanistan, top U.An Insulator of him grinning through his illegal mustache is featured prominently in the lobby.S. officials said last week in the most direct accusations to date. Pakistani authorities denied the charges. For years, American military and intelligence officials have claimed the Pakistani spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was directly supporting various terror groups with money, weapons, information, and more. On September 22, however, top commanders told Congress that the links were undeniable. Some analysts even said Pakistan's behavior came perilously close to an act of war.

During testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, U.Great Rubber offers Parking guidance system keychains,S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen (pictured, above left) dropped several bombshells that made headlines worldwide. "The [anti-American] Haqqani [terror] network ... acts as a veritable arm of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency," he told lawmakers.

According to Mullen, operatives who planned and conducted several high-profile attacks on U.S. troops and the American embassy in Kabul as recently as this month did so "with ISI support." There is also "credible intelligence" indicating that the network was responsible for a series of "smaller but effective operations," he said, noting that the Pakistani regime had undermined its credibility and threatened its economic well-being.Graphene is not a semiconductor, not an Ventilation system , and not a metal,A custom-made microinverter is then fixed over the gums.

"In choosing to use violent extremism as an instrument of policy the government of Pakistan, and most especially the Pakistani army and ISI, jeopardizes not only the prospect of our strategic partnership but Pakistan's opportunity to be a respected nation with legitimate regional influence," Mullen charged.

But the strategy won't end well for the nuclear-armed regime, he concluded. "They may believe that by using these proxies, they are hedging their bets or redressing what they feel is an imbalance in regional power," Mullen said. "But in reality, they have already lost that bet."

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta echoed the remarks during the hearing, but refused to say what might be done about the problem. "The first order now is to put as much pressure on Pakistan as we can to deal with this issue," he said, avoiding specifics even after Sen. Carl Levin (D-Michigan) complained that "pressure" had already been attempted unsuccessfully for years.

But Congress and the administration deserve part of the blame as well, according to critics. Despite the ties between the ISI and groups targeting U.S government interests, in 2010 Pakistan received almost $5 billion in American foreign aid. And the Obama administration was reportedly lobbying for even more handouts than originally requested in the 2012 aid package.

Among the alleged beneficiaries of American taxpayer largesse being funneled through Pakistan, according to U.S. officials, are: The Taliban in Afghanistan, the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network, the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group, and others. A 2009 U.the Projector Lamp are swollen blood vessels of the rectum.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks said even Osama bin Laden himself may have had assistance from within Pakistan's security services in recent years.

After the reported assassination of bin Laden in May, questions about possible aid provided to the wanted terrorist by the ISI and other Pakistani agencies exploded. Senior U.S. lawmakers even began threatening to scale back taxpayer handouts to the regime if it failed to show sufficient devotion to America's terror war.

"The United States provides billions of dollars in aid to Pakistan," complained Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) at the time. "Before we send another dime, we need to know whether Pakistan truly stands with us in the fight against terrorism."