Photo: These men are running off of the Chinok helicopter on day one of the mission Afghanistan, south east tip of Paktika Province, Town of Kalay, 10 miles from the Pakistan Border. May, 2009. Chad HuntThe Pakistan-Iran-Afghanistan Intelligence War: Analysis -- Popular Mechanics
Reports from Afghanistan indicate a struggle between nations, complete with double agents, international spies and arms smugglers. And U.S. troops and Afghan government officials are in the cross hairs.
Sometimes simple news reports from Afghanistan provide a window to some very deep, troubling trends. Such is the case with an article this weekend from ToloNews, Afghanistan's version of CNN. "The [Afghan] National Directorate of Security on Saturday announced that an army officer has been arrested on charges of cooperating with Pakistan's intelligence agency and terrorist networks" it reads. The Afghan domestic security bureau told reporters that the officer was turning over classified information so insurgents could raid government offices in the Afghan capital, Kabul. Worse, the officer was in charge of maintaining several large checkpoints around Kabul, the best line of defense against suicide strikes.
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My Comment: I suspect that this is only a fraction of the information that is being made available to us .... that the intelligence war is probably more deeper and complicated than what a one page post from Popular Mechanics can provide.