Pakistan backed attacks on American targets, U.S. says
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The Obama administration for the first time Thursday openly asserted that Pakistan was indirectly responsible for specific attacks against U.S. troops and installations in Afghanistan, calling a leading Afghan insurgent group "a veritable arm" of the Pakistani intelligence service.
Last week's attack on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul and a Sept. 10 truck bombing that killed five Afghans and wounded 77 NATO troops were "planned and conducted" by the Pakistan-based Haqqani network "with ISI support," said Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The ISI is the Pakistani military's Inter-Services Intelligence agency.
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