Report from Spainish Defense Ministry: ISI helps Taliban

The ISI, the Pakistani spy service, helping to train and arm the taliban...nothing new here really. A Spanish report from Spain's Defense Ministry says that the ISI provided training, intelligence and set up camps on Pakistani soil to help the taliban use explosives to assisnate Afghanistan officials. The ISI of course denies these claims but I'm inclined to trust Spain's Defense Minister over the ISI.
AFP

MADRID, Spain (AP) — A report marked confidential and bearing the official seal of Spain's Defense Ministry charges that Pakistan's spy service was helping arm Taliban insurgents in 2005 for assassination plots against the Afghan government.

The report, which was obtained by Cadena Ser radio and posted on the station's Web site on Wednesday, also says Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency — or ISI — helped the Taliban procure roadside bombs.

It alleges that Pakistan may have provided training and intelligence to the Taliban in camps set up on Pakistani soil. The report says the Pakistani agency planned to have the Taliban use the explosives "to assassinate high-ranking officials."

....

Fernando Reinares, a terrorism analyst at the Elcano Royal Institute in Madrid and former chief counterterrorism adviser at Spain's Interior Ministry, said the document appeared to be an internal report intended for high-level officials. Spain has about 800 soldiers deployed in northwest Afghanistan.

The report says "it appears possible" that advanced training camps exist in Pakistan "where the Taliban receive training, help and intelligence from the ISI," and where they are also developing new improvised explosive devices. The report says the Taliban had also been receiving help from al-Qaida.