“[C.I.A. staff at FOB Chapman in Khost] have recently been on a big Haqqani binge,” said the Pentagon consultant. “I would be really shocked if the bombing on Wednesday wasn’t some kind of retaliation”, a New York Times report quotes a Pentagon consultant as saying.
NYT Correspondent Mark Mazzetti says "C.I.A. personnel regularly take foreign agents onto the base before sending them on intelligence collection missions ...across the border into Pakistan", and comments: "The fact that the agency is in effect running a war in Pakistan...." Read the whole story here.
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