ABC News is reporting that "A senior official in Pakistan's civilian government" has admitted that "[e]lements of Pakistan intelligence -- probably rogue or retired -- were involved in aiding, abetting and sheltering the leader of al Qaeda." This is based on the government's judgment that the number of years bin Laden spent in Abbottabad -- and it now appears in a village outside the city of Haripur -- would have been impossible without help, possibly from someone in the middle tier of ISI, Pakistan's intelligence agency, who grew up fighting alongside the mujahidin against the Soviets, said the official.According to the official, the military and ISI have been weeding some of them out but many remain. This isn't the surprise. The shock is that if the official was authorized to speak on background to the western press. it is a gauntlet thrown down by President Zardari at the feet of the military and the ISI.There have long been sharp divisions between the...(Read Full Post)