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Former CIA serviceman John Kiriakou (ANI photo)
Former CIA serviceman John Kiriakou -- who erstwhile headed the agency’s counterterrorism operations successful Pakistan -- said Pakistani officials sent him a missive demanding an apology for his remark that India would decision Pakistan successful a accepted war.Reacting to the missive connected the podcast of net property Julian Dorey, Kiriakou utilized blunt, non-parliamentary connection arsenic helium mocked erstwhile Pakistan premier curate Imran Khan and his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) for the request of apology.
Kiriakou has precocious made a bid of striking claims successful an interrogation with ANI quality agency, including that the White House had expected “India to onslaught backmost aft the 2001 and 2008 attacks.”
He besides recounted however Osama bin Laden escaped from the Tora Bora mountains into Pakistan.
Kiriakou was speaking astir the 2001 Parliament onslaught successful New Delhi, carried retired by Pakistan-backed Jaish-e-Mohammad, and the 2008 Mumbai attacks launched by Lashkar-e-Taiba, different Pakistan-nurtured panic outfit. The United States itself had suffered a devastating stroke conscionable months earlier India’s Parliament onslaught -- the 9/11 strikes by Osama bin Laden–led Al-Qaeda connected the World Trade Center successful New York.
Recalling the events astatine Tora Bora, Kiriakou said American forces had cornered Bin Laden successful the mountains arsenic dense bombing continued. “We knew we had Bin Laden cornered. We told him to travel down the mountain,” helium said. Bin Laden asked for clip until dawn, claiming helium needed to evacuate women and children.“But then,” Kiriakou said, “Osama bin Laden dressed arsenic a pistillate and escaped nether the screen of acheronian successful the backmost of a pickup motortruck into Pakistan.”Kiriakou besides claimed the US had efficaciously “purchased” Pakistan’s then-president Pervez Musharraf. He said this aft remarking that “the United States loves moving with dictators.” According to him, Washington paid “tens of millions of dollars successful currency to the Pakistani quality service.”Speaking astir the attacks connected India, helium said, “The Indian authorities would person been perfectly wrong its rights to respond by striking Pakistan.”
He added: “At the White House, we expected the Indians to onslaught backmost and they did not.”He past went further, making an explosive assertion astir Pakistan’s atomic weapons. “In 2002, I was told, unofficially, that the Pentagon controlled Pakistan’s atomic arsenal,” Kiriakou said.And successful a blunt appraisal of the subject equilibrium betwixt the 2 neighbours, helium stated: “Pakistan cannot triumph a accepted warfare against India.”
