WikiLeaks Founder, Julian Assange speaks about the Afghanistan War Logs


More than 180 files detail accusations that the ISI spy agency has supplied, armed and trained insurgents since 2004. More than 180 intelligence files in the war logs, most of which cannot be confirmed, detail accusations that Pakistan’s premier spy agency has been supplying, arming and training the insurgency since at least 2004. The Obama administration, which gives $1bn a year in military aid to Pakistan, did not challenge the veracity of the files, but said that while Islamabad was making progress against extremism, “the status quo is not acceptable”. “The safe havens for violent extremist groups within Pakistan continue to pose an intolerable threat to the United States, to Afghanistan, and to the Pakistani people,” a spokesman said in response to questions about the ISI files. He urged Pakistan’s military and intelligence services to “continue their strategic shift against violent extremists groups within their borders, and stay on the offensive against them”. An ISI spokesman said the agency could not comment in detail until it had examined the files, but described the general allegations as “far-fetched and unsubstantiated”. The accusations against the ISI in the war logs range from spectacular to lurid. Reports describe covert ISI plots to train legions of suicide bombers, smuggle surface-to-air missiles into Afghanistan, assassinate President Hamid Karzai and poison western beer supplies. But despite the startling allegations the files yield little convincing