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  • US operation in Pakistan from 2001-2002 is most misunderstand

  • Americans never had the same close connection to warzones in Afghanistan and Iraq

  • Pakistan is overprotective of military gov and US does not allow that

  • Pakistan has allowed CIA to do operations in Pakistani, and they took this as a way to do broad violent actions “kinetic activities “

    • mix of intelligence personal, no big troops, so citizens in US don’t know

  • 20001-2011 a lot of happened

    • Pakistani agents helped US capture some al-Queda members which are still in Guantanamo Bay Cuba

    • US clashed with Pakistan and killed 70,000 including civilians

    • UCAVS armed drones

    • killed Osama bin laden, in his house

  • Pakistan appeared to be on outer edge of America post 9/11 wars, Pakistan was right in the center

  • one of 3 countries that recognized and maintain diplomatic ties with Islamic immigrants unlike 2 countries next to it

    • Bush was trying to isolate them backed by Nothern Alliance and cease aid to IEA

    • ISI doing the opposite of resolutions, Pakistan was assisting Mullah Omar

    • Elements of Pakistan's pre-9/11 Support for the IEA

      • Military advisers to help the IEA manage its military vehicles

      and weapons

      • Fuel (oil) for the IEA's military

      • Large numbers (estimated in the thousands) of Pakistani

      Pashtuns to bolster IEA ground forces in the fight against the

      Northern Alliance

      • Pakistani special forces to enhance IEA combat operations

      against the Northern Alliance

    • Musharaff overthrow Taliban or be treated as enemy

  • According to Musharraf US would bomb to stone age, but then said you are with us or against us.

  • He directed ISI to cooperate American law enforcement, otherwise US military would struggle getting in

    • allowed flights, pentagon to have access to Pakistan bases, ISI shared info with US - all before invading Afghanistan

    • cripple IEA and pushed mullah mar & supporters from territory in Pakistan

  • troops flown in and maintained, needed a ton of material, which was brough in by Pakistan

  • IEA (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) original led by mullah Omar, indigenous gov

  • Al Queda originally led Osama bin laden, non-state organization

    • purged Muslim world of non Muslim gov (basically govs helping non-Muslim govs)

  • Pakistan more down to catch al Queda people than IEA.

  • people captured from al Queda were killed eventually by US or fled from Pakistan to Afghanistan

  • people wanted due to suspicion of being part of 9/11

  • hard to reach count of suspects captured, not in formal US justice system, go to CIA then vanish from public view. Would be in American detention facility or Jails.

  • example: al-Libil ended up in his own gov prisons until murdered

  • Some still being held in Cuba Guantanamo Bay (ex: Zubaydah)

    • was tortured intensively, “high value terrorist“ Pakistan helped US attain

  • Ashib in US detentions until eventual in Guantanamo.

    • incapable of thinking ptsd therefore death penalty possible??

  • Khaled Sheikh Mohammed

    (sometimes called "KSM")

    Birthyear: 1965

    Nationality: Pakistani (his

    father is from the province

    of Balochistan)

    Country of birth:

    Kuwait

    Captured: March 1, 2003 in

    Rawalpindi (Punjab

    province), Pakistan

    Arrival at Guantanamo Bay

    detention camp: December

    2006

  • was caught in March 2003 in Pakistan and while in custody of the CIA reported waterboarded 183 times, even more than Zubaydah.

    • torture technique that simulates drowning, banned by international law considered tortured Bush administration justified it with faulty reasoning.