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" .....The officials, two of whom spoke to The Washington Times on the condition of anonymity because they were discussing a sensitive topic, suggested that some of the blame for the long failure to capture Osama bin Laden, former Afghan leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and other members of what is known as the Quetta shura or council lies with the United States.
The "CIA has not shared any actionable intelligence with the Pakistan government on al Qaeda [in Baluchistan] since 2006 and 2007," a Pakistani defense official said.
The Pakistanis are pushing for more intelligence sharing after a string of terrorist attacks including a weekend strike on Pakistan's equivalent of the Pentagon, which led to a 22-hour hostage standoff that ended with at least 19 deaths....
The Pakistani defense official said that "dated intelligence delivered by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to Pakistan months ago" that al Qaeda leaders and the Taliban leadership council run by Mullah Omar are in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan, is too "flimsy to act on." "Now the U.S. intelligence says that [al Qaeda] is holed up in Quetta," the official said. "Has any U.S. intelligence agency given us any actionable intelligence with Pakistan? No. This is only talk."
There have been concerns that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency still contains sympathizers with the Afghan Taliban, which the ISI helped create in the 1990s during an Afghan civil war.............
Pakistani officials acknowledge, however, that shared U.S. intelligence on al Qaeda may have leaked by what they term "rogue agents" in 2006 and 2007, when a target of a U.S. drone attack escaped just before the planned strike....."
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