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Re: Pakistan Journalist Vanishes: Is the ISI Involved?

Released on 2012-03-08 09:00 GMT

Email-ID 1644311 Date 2011-06-01 15:50:16 From burton@stratfor.com To sean.noonan@stratfor.com, hoor.jangda@stratfor.com, secure@stratfor.com

Re: Pakistan Journalist Vanishes: Is the ISI Involved?





The most interesting aspect is the killing of a journalist. Fine line

between an investigative journalist and spy. When you rattle around

topics nobody wants aired, you pay the price. Truth tellers always get

shot. Its much easier to lie or make up stories.



On 6/1/2011 8:46 AM, Sean Noonan wrote:



http://www.amazon.com/Bloodmoney-Novel-Espionage-David-Ignatius/dp/0393078116/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306935919&sr=8-1



i don't think we're going anywhere with this SSS thing, though it is

interesting.

On 6/1/11 8:41 AM, Fred Burton wrote:



The poor bastard went down the rabbit hole and was neutralized.



ISI is fully infiltrated by sympathizers and operatives. So, he was

killed by ISI. Will we find a smoking gun? No. Will anybody care

about this dude? Not really. The Agency lost an asset. Life goes

on. There is a reason the CIA set up unilateral operations in

Pakistan.



Suggest everyone read David Ignatius new book on CIA NOC and front

company operations in Pakistan. Once again, he has gotten dead

right.



On 6/1/2011 8:06 AM, Sean Noonan wrote:



the question, though, is still who did it.



It means very different things if it is the ISI, the traditional

military, or the jihadists. Then a question of who within those

groups can also mean different things. Not saying we can answer that

very easily, but who specifically killed who (with the support of

who) would explain if there is an issue or not. Operating between

the intelligence services and jihadists is a very, very dangerous

place- so it's not all that surprising that these deaths occur. And

as tensions go up, so will those deaths. But we would have to know

the same people were involved in the deaths to really know what 'the

issue' actually is.

On 6/1/11 7:59 AM, Kamran Bokhari wrote:



The issue is not the man himself (though I am personally spooked

out because I knew him and we met not too long ago and he wrote on

my fb wall a day before he went missing). Instead the issue is the

growing number of deaths of people who have been supportive of

jihadists. Recall KK and Col Imam and now Triple-S. The other

thing is that each of these 3 people were with the ISI at one

point. A former army chief confirmed to me that SSS was at one

point on the payroll. Each of these guys had a falling out with

the official ISI but maintained links deep within the service.

These guys have also had ties to jihadists of one type while

pissing off other more radical types.



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From: Fred Burton <burton@stratfor.com>

Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 07:51:53 -0500 (CDT)

To: Sean Noonan<sean.noonan@stratfor.com>

Cc: Secure List<secure@stratfor.com>

Subject: Re: Pakistan Journalist Vanishes: Is the ISI Involved?

http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745331010&



Note his May 20 book release.



He was living on borrowed time operating in the belly of the

beast. His last interview is telling. Regardless, he's dead.

Life on the edge.



On 6/1/2011 6:34 AM, Sean Noonan wrote:



Did y'all read his most recent story?

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/ME27Df06.html



These three stories are pretty good on his death and what was

going on:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-31/syed-saleem-shahzad-suspicions-fall-on-pakistans-isi-in-journalists-death/#

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/leading-journalist-murdered-by-pakistani-security-service-2291604.html

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2074800,00.html#ixzz1NxHaX4xA

Just throwing ideas out here. This is such a clusterfuck I

don't know what to think.



His next was to be "Next: Recruitment and training of militants

" So who was doing the recruitment and training, huh?

If it's anything like the first half, it sounds like he's going

to accuse someone in the Pakistani military. Maybe they wanted

to stop that?



Excerpt of new book on AQ and friends. Says the Mumbai plan was

ISI's and a dude under Kashmiri at LeT carried it out:

http://www.syedsaleemshahzad.com/2011/05/who-masterminded-mumbai-attack/



It seems just as likely jihadists could go after him for

exposing their location (or that they thought he exposed it).

The reports I've read through of 'torture' were really just that

he had been hit in the face. That's probably pretty typical of

any militant or criminal outfit, and while the other reports of

his ISI meetings were more peaceful, it wouldn't be that

difficult for them to go that far either.



Here's his email to the HRW:

http://asiancorrespondent.com/56321/saleem-shahzad-dead-another-one-bites-the-dust/



For future reference:



Meeting details as on October 17, 2010 at the ISI headquarters

Islamabad between DG Media Wing ISI, Rear Admiral Adnan Nazir

and Syed Saleem Shahzad, the Bureau Chief Pakistan for Asia

Times Online (Hong Kong). Commodore Khalid Pervaiz, the Deputy

Director General of Media Wing ISI was also present during the

conversation.



Agenda of the meeting: discussion on Asia Times Online story

published on October 15, 2010, titled Pakistan frees Taliban

commander (see

http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LJ16Df02.html).



The meeting discussed the following issues.



1-Syed Saleem Shahzad told Rear Admiral Adnan that an

intelligence channel leaked the story. However, he added that

story was published only after a confirmation from the most

credible Taliban source. Syed also explained that DG ISPR was

sent a text message about the story, but he did not respond.



2- Rear Admiral Adnan Nazir had the view that story caused a lot

of embracement for the country but observed that issuing a

denial from the government side is no solution. He suggested

Syed Saleem Shahzad should write a denial of the story.



3- Syed Shahzad refused to comply with demand and termed it

impractical.



4-Rear Admiral Adnan was curious to know the source of the story

as it is a shame that information would leak from the office of

a high profile intelligence service.



5- Syed Shahzad called it an intelligence leak but did not

specify the source.



6-The conversation was held in an extremely polite and friendly

atmosphere and there was no mince word in the room at any stage.

Rear Admiral Adnan Nazir also offered Syed Saleem Shahzad a

favor in following words.



"I must give you a favor. We have recently arrested a terrorist

and have recovered a lot of data, dairies and other material

during the interrogation. The terrorist had a hit list with him.

If I find your name in the list, I will certainly let you know,"



(end of email)



On 5/31/11 7:56 PM, burton@stratfor.com wrote:



I'm sure the ISI extracted a confession of his CIA work before

he died. There will be a leaked story about his double agent

work and the Pakis rub the CIA's nose in it. Its what intel

agencies do. Tit for tat. The world will soon forget him.

Price one pays for playing the game.



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From: "Kamran Bokhari" <bokhari@stratfor.com>

Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 19:36:07 -0500 (CDT)

To: Reva Bhalla<bhalla@stratfor.com>; Kamran

Bokhari<bokhari@stratfor.com>

ReplyTo: bokhari@stratfor.com

Cc: Secure List<secure@stratfor.com>; Fred

Burton<burton@stratfor.com>

Subject: Re: Pakistan Journalist Vanishes: Is the ISI

Involved?

Pretty big one. Domestic and int'l media shit-storm about how

ISI brutally killed a journalist who uncovered ties between

navy and aQ. The big thing now is aQ penetration of ISI.



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From: Reva Bhalla <bhalla@stratfor.com>

Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 19:29:03 -0500 (CDT)

To: <bokhari@stratfor.com>

Cc: Secure List<secure@stratfor.com>; Fred

Burton<burton@stratfor.com>

Subject: Re: Pakistan Journalist Vanishes: Is the ISI

Involved?

is it that much of a crisis?



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From: "Kamran Bokhari" <bokhari@stratfor.com>

To: "Fred Burton" <burton@stratfor.com>, "Kamran Bokhari"

<bokhari@stratfor.com>

Cc: "Secure List" <secure@stratfor.com>

Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 7:28:02 PM

Subject: Re: Fwd: Pakistan Journalist Vanishes: Is the ISI

Involved?



Yes, he is dead. But the question is why create this new

crisis when there are no shortages of crises.



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From: Fred Burton <burton@stratfor.com>

Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 19:18:28 -0500 (CDT)

To: Kamran Bokhari<bokhari@stratfor.com>

Cc: Secure List<secure@stratfor.com>

Subject: Re: Fwd: Pakistan Journalist Vanishes: Is the ISI

Involved?

I'm not surprised. Have we confirmed he's dead?



On 5/31/2011 7:16 PM, Kamran Bokhari wrote:



Heard that the ISI agents who were "interrogating" him

didn't realize he had a heart condition and when they began

the thrashing the guy had a heart attack and died.

On 5/31/2011 2:17 PM, Fred Burton wrote:



A reasonable man would conclude that the chap was on the

CIA dole, but you did not hear that from me. Payback is a

bitch.



-------- Original Message --------



Subject: Pakistan Journalist Vanishes: Is the ISI

Involved?

Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 13:15:00 -0500

From: Fred Burton <burton@stratfor.com>

To: OS <os@stratfor.com>



Fears are growing for the safety of a well-known Pakistani journalist

who has been missing for 39 hours now and, according to an international

advocacy group, is believed to be in the custody of Pakistan's

controversial Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Human

Rights Watch declared that Syed Saleem Shahzad, a reporter working for

the Hong Kong-based Asia Times Online and Adnkronos International, the

Italian news agency, could be subject to mistreatment and even torture

while in custody.



UPDATE: Pakistan's main news channels are reporting that Shahzad's dead

body has been found. One news channel broadcast what appeared to be a

black and white image of Shahzad's face. There were visible signs of

torture..



Read more:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2074800,00.html#ixzz1NxHaX4xA





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Tactical Analyst



Office: +1 512-279-9479



Mobile: +1 512-758-5967



Strategic Forecasting, Inc.



www.stratfor.com



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Tactical Analyst



Office: +1 512-279-9479



Mobile: +1 512-758-5967



Strategic Forecasting, Inc.



www.stratfor.com









