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Whistleblower Who Linked "Taliban" Leader
To US Intelligence Is Assassinated
Analysts claim enemy of slain tribal leader is protected,
funded by CIA
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A whistleblower who defected from the Pakistani Taliban has
been assassinated just days after he claimed that the group
was working with US intelligence to destabilize the country.
Qari Zainuddin, a tribal leader of the South Waziristan
region in Pakistan was shot dead on Tuesday by a gunman said
to be loyal to Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud.
Analysts said that Mr Zainuddin's murder was a
serious blow to the military campaign against the militants,
as support of his faction was considered crucial, reports
the London Times. "[It] is a warning to other
pro government tribal commanders," said Mahmood Shah, a
retired brigadier who had served as top official in the tribal
region.
Zainuddin had rejected Mehsud's Taliban tribe,
and shifted his allegiance to the Pakistani government, following
a string of suicide bombings targeting mosques and civilians.
The Pakistani government also claims that Mehsud
was responsible for the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani
Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto.
One of Qari Zainuddin's aides, who was also injured
in the attack that killed the tribal leader, told the media
that a lone gunman was able to enter Zainuddin's office and
open fire, before escaping uninjured.
"It was definitely Baitullah's man who infiltrated
our ranks, and he has done his job," Baz Mohammad told
the Associated Press news agency.
Zainuddin had recently hit out at Mehsud in an
interview with the AP.
"Whatever Baitullah Mehsud and his associates
are doing in the name of Islam is not a jihad, and in fact it
is rioting and terrorism," Zainuddin said.
Though the BBC
and other mainstream sources highlighted this interview with
Zainuddin, they neglected to cover the fact that Zainuddin also
reportedly denounced Mehsud as "an American agent".
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Both Iranian and Pakistani media independently
covered his remarks, adding that Zainuddin also described Baitullah
Mehsud as having strong
links with both Indian and Israeli intelligence.
In an interview with local media the defector
said that Mehsud had established strong links with Israeli intelligence
services, which were destabilizing the nuclear armed country,
reports the Iranian news service Press
TV.
"These people (Mehsud and his men) are working
against Islam." the report quotes Zainuddin as having said.
Meanwhile, Pakistan's largest daily newspaper,
The
News, carried a report last Sunday that highlighted
the remarks:
"In interviews to various media organisations
on Thursday, Qari Zainuddin and his deputy Haji Turkistan had
alleged that Baitullah was an American and Indian agent, he
had killed Benazir Bhutto and that the real Jihad was going
on in Afghanistan, not in Pakistan." the report stated.
"Many diplomats contacted Foreign Office
and Interior Ministry officials as well as media persons, seeking
answers to their questions. Some Western diplomats were particularly
confused over the claim that Baitullah was an American agent
and that he had killed Benazir Bhutto. These diplomats were
asking a question that if Baitullah was involved in the assassination
of Benazir Bhutto, does that mean that the American authorities
were also involved in the conspiracy." the report continued.
Of course, whether you put faith in the Iranian
and Pakistani media on these reports, is another question, however,
there have been suspicions for some time amongst some Pakistanis
that Baitullah Mehsud is
on the CIA payroll and is being protected
by the intelligence apparatus.
According to retired brigadier and former vice
president and founder of the Islamabad Policy Research Institute,
Shaukat Qadir,
the Pakistani military has requested US help to kill Baitullah
Mehsud on several occasions and provided the US with accurate
information of his location. Despite this, he claims, Mehsud
was never targeted.
Other analysts hold suspicions that Indian and
US intelligence are funneling weapons, financial aid and even
fighters to the Pakistani Taliban.
The history of the Taliban in Afghanistan, as
we have previously
reported, is replete with connections to western
controlled intelligence agencies.
These facts were also recently highlighted by
Pakistan
President Asif Ali Zardari, who admitted that the
CIA and his country’s ISI together created
the Taliban.
The Taliban's spread
into Pakistan has also been connected to intelligence
driven plots to Balkanize the middle East.
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