Washington: Pakistan has lost control of
rogue military and intelligence officers, who are now aiding
the militants, and it might be too late to sanitise the Army,
a former French judge has said in his new book.
"The situation in Pakistan is among the most
worrisome... the central government has lost control of
certain elements of the Army and the ISI," Jean-Louis
Bruguiere, an investigative French Magistrate, said.
In his book based on details of investigations of
Willie Brigitte, a Frenchman who was convicted of terrorism
charges in 2007, the judge says that according to the account
given by the terrorist CIA officers were hoodwinked by
Pakistani Army officers as they inspected militant training
camps jointly run by Al-Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba.
"Since most of the commanders of LeT were earlier in
the Army, these inspections were doomed to draw a blank," he
said in the book, which is slated to hit the stands on Monday,
excerpts of which were carried by Los Angeles Times.
"The foreign recruits were alerted on the eve of the
arrival of the inspecting teams by their instructors... the
trainees then had to erase any traces of their presence and
head to elevations of more than 13,500 feet while the
inspection lasted," Bruguiere says in the book 'What I Could
Not Say'.
Bureau Report
First Published: Thursday, November 05, 2009, 13:19