White House Believes Pakistan's Murder, Inc. -- the ISI -- Assassinated Journalist

They've got their black little hearts set on The Prize, I think -- the formal takeover of a nuclear armed Muslim state by jihadis.

Obama administration officials believe that Pakistan’s powerful spy agency ordered the killing of a Pakistani journalist who had written scathing reports about the infiltration of militants in the country’s military, according to American officials.

New classified intelligence obtained before the May 29 disappearance of the journalist, Saleem Shahzad, 40, from the capital, Islamabad, and after the discovery of his mortally wounded body, showed that senior officials of the spy agency, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, directed the attack on him in an effort to silence criticism, two senior administration officials said.

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“Every indication is that this was a deliberate, targeted killing that was most likely meant to send shock waves through Pakistan’s journalist community and civil society,” said the official...

The Administration is deliberating how to break the news to Pakistan that it's murdering its own citizens. I'm pretty sure they know.

posted by Ace at 02:13 PM

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