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 Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 3:36 am Post subject: U.S. Says Fighters Tied to Pakistan’s ISI Were Behind Kabul |
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Top American officials blamed a Taliban faction with ties to Pakistan’s military intelligence agency for the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul and said the Obama administration will not accept its haven in Pakistan.
The attackers who seized a building under construction and fired rocket-propelled grenades into the embassy came from the Jalaluddin Haqqani group, U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker told reporters in Kabul after Afghan forces ended the 20-hour siege yesterday. The Haqqani fighters operate largely from a sanctuary in Pakistan’s borderland with Afghanistan.
Crocker and U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the Haqqani group also was behind the Sept. 10 truck-bomb attack on a U.S. base southwest of Kabul that injured 77 Americans. Panetta called the Haqqani group’s continued “safe haven” in Pakistan “unacceptable.”
“I’m not going to talk about how we’re going to respond,” Panetta told reporters. “I’ll just let you know we are not going to allow these kinds of attacks to go on.”
Haqqani’s faction is backing Pakistan in a sharpening “struggle with the U.S. over which country will play a more central role in brokering an eventual peace deal” in Afghanistan, said Waliullah Rahmani, director of the independent Kabul Center for Strategic Studies. The attack on the U.S. Embassy, which began Sept. 13, is likely to be part of that struggle, he said in a phone interview yesterday.
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