Fasten your seat belt and read some courageous reporting from Pakistan
Dexter Filkins has a terrific piece in the new, Sept. 19 issue of the New Yorker that at first glance is just about the recent killing of a Pakistani journalist, but actually is kind of an overview of the state of play with the ISI, the Pakistani intelligence agency. I am glad that he did ...
Dexter Filkins has a terrific piece in the new, Sept. 19 issue of the New Yorker that at first glance is just about the recent killing of a Pakistani journalist, but actually is kind of an overview of the state of play with the ISI, the Pakistani intelligence agency.
Dexter Filkins has a terrific piece in the new, Sept. 19 issue of the New Yorker that at first glance is just about the recent killing of a Pakistani journalist, but actually is kind of an overview of the state of play with the ISI, the Pakistani intelligence agency.
I am glad that he did it, but also awed that he did it. It takes real nerve to go around Pakistan these days prying into the ISI’s relationship to the Taliban and al Qaeda, and about whether it is killing journalists — especially in the country where Danny Pearl was kidnapped and decapitated for doing something similar.
One item in the article particularly struck me: A March 17 airstrike by U.S. drones not only killed some insurgent leaders, but also the ISI officials with whom they were meeting.
Anyone interested in Pakistan should run out and buy a copy of this article.
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