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CIA officer gives advice on handling Pakistan rebels
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Big News Network.com Tuesday 31st July, 2007
A former U.S Central Intelligence Agency officer has urged the Bush Administration to take careful preventive
action to neutralise the terrorist threat in Pakistan's volatile Waziristan area.
Henry Crumpton, who served with the U.S. State Department after retiring from the CIA in 2005, says the right
model for a Waziristan campaign is the CIA-led operation in Afghanistan, not the U.S. military invasion of Iraq.
He says that teams of CIA officers and Special Forces soldiers are best suited to work with tribal leaders,
providing them weapons and money to fight an al-Qaeda network that has implanted itself brutally in Waziristan
through the assassination of more than 100 tribal leaders in the past six years.
Crumpton argues any operation should be a joint effort with Pakistan but, failing that, the United States should
be prepared to go it alone.
Crumpton has proposed a detailed plan which would combine economic assistance and paramilitary
operations in a broad counter-insurgency campaign.
In Waziristan, it would involve U.S. and Pakistani operatives giving tribal warlords guns and money, but also
economic aid to help tribal leaders operate their local stone quarries more efficiently or install windmills and
solar panels to generate electricity for their remote mountain villages.
He said a successful counter-insurgency program would need Pakistani support.
A former U.S Central Intelligence Agency officer has urged the Bush Administration to take careful preventive
action to neutralise the terrorist threat in Pakistan's volatile Waziristan area.
Henry Crumpton, who served with the U.S. State Department after retiring from the CIA in 2005, says the right
model for a Waziristan campaign is the CIA-led operation in Afghanistan, not the U.S. military invasion of Iraq.
He says that teams of CIA officers and Special Forces soldiers are best suited to work with tribal leaders,
providing them weapons and money to fight an al-Qaeda network that has implanted itself brutally in Waziristan
through the assassination of more than 100 tribal leaders in the past six years.
Crumpton argues any operation should be a joint effort with Pakistan but, failing that, the United States should
be prepared to go it alone.
Crumpton has proposed a detailed plan which would combine economic assistance and paramilitary
operations in a broad counter-insurgency campaign.
In Waziristan, it would involve U.S. and Pakistani operatives giving tribal warlords guns and money, but also
economic aid to help tribal leaders operate their local stone quarries more efficiently or install windmills and
solar panels to generate electricity for their remote mountain villages.
He said a successful counter-insurgency program would need Pakistani support.
