“WikiLeaks”, is not an actual leak, rather it is a set of internal documents of the US government, where different internal communications or HR files are discussed. They contain a wealth of information about the US government’s thinking style and their opinion on various international issues. Unfortunately, the files contain too much information and requires years of reading to understand everything.
One interesting point I came across while studying the Guantanamo Bay prisoner files of Pakistani inmates, is how the US Army was duped by the Afghan Northern Alliance Forces. All of the Pakistani inmates in Guantanamo Bay prison handed over to the US by the Afghan forces were below the age of 25, with 40 percent even below the age of 18. All of them categorically stated that they worked as drivers, cooks and cleaners with the Taliban forces. None of them had any valuable information to offer and most were transported out of Afghanistan after they were interrogated by the US intelligence service on the ground.
The Pakistani ISI had also checked and confirmed that these prisoners were not dangerous and agreed to accept them to return back to Pakistan. But these prisoners were not ready to denounce their hatred for America or the US Army, and thus were not released from the prison.
This whole information shows how the US Army was duped by the Afghan Northern Alliance forces and were not given any actual Taliban prisoners, who could have given them any real intel on Taliban network, resulting into the US Army heading blindly into occupying Afghanistan.
The US Army is famous for having real time information, but I guess with too many avenues of information collection, most of the time you will get misinformation.
SALMAN KHAN
Islamabad
