Worldview; 01 Red Mosque Raid in Islamabad; 02 The CIA in Pakistan
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- Worldview
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- 01 Red Mosque Raid in Islamabad
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- 02 The CIA in Pakistan
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- WBEZ
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- WBEZ (Chicago, Illinois)
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- cpb-aacip/50-96k0pc8h
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- Full episode We'll talk with Art Keller, a former CIA field officer. As a field officer, pursued al-Qaeda in Pakistan, ran assets, and gathered intelligence on WMD proliferation. Also, we'll get an update from The Guardian's Declan Walsh in Islamabad on last night's army raid on extremists barricaded in a mosque.
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- 01 Last night in Islamabad, the Pakistani Army ended their week-long siege and stormed Lal-Masjid, the Red Mosque. Itd been occupied by radical clerics, their heavily armed students, and dozens of captive civilians. The long battle to secure the large mosque and seminary compound has resulted in an increasing number of casualities. The raid was the culmination of a six-month escalation of tensions between Islamabads most violent mosque and the military government of President General Pervez Musharraf. In March, female students from the Red Mosque abducted 3 women they accused of running a brothel, as well as two policemen. Then, in June, students kidnapped 9 people, including 6 Chinese women and a Chinese man. They claimed the acupuncture clinic at which they worked was a brothel. Declan Walsh, Pakistan correspondent for the Guardian in Britain, witnessed the raid, and we spoke to him in Islamabad earlier today. He explained what the effect of violence would be on General Musharraf's regime.
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- 02 Art Keller was a spy. As a field officer for the CIAs Clandestine Service, Art worked on covert perations around the world. He recruited and managed assets, and like the now-notorious Valerie Plame, he was in the counter-proliferation division focused on stopping the spread of WMDs. One of his last field postings was on the frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan, in the province of Waziristan. He was supposed to catch al-Qaeda fighters, and he worked with the Pakistani military. Hes said he thinks Pakistans military and ISI Intelligence service is tacitly supporting the Taliban through inaction.
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Producing Organization: WBEZ
Production Unit: Worldview
Publisher: WBEZ
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Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ-FM) and Vocalo.org
Identifier: 40669 (WBEZ)
Format: Data CD: CD-R
Generation: Master
Duration: 01:00:00
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- Chicago: “Worldview; 01 Red Mosque Raid in Islamabad; 02 The CIA in Pakistan,” WBEZ, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 1, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-50-96k0pc8h.
- MLA: “Worldview; 01 Red Mosque Raid in Islamabad; 02 The CIA in Pakistan.” WBEZ, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 1, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-50-96k0pc8h>.
- APA: Worldview; 01 Red Mosque Raid in Islamabad; 02 The CIA in Pakistan. Boston, MA: WBEZ, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-50-96k0pc8h