Former CIA officer John Kiriakou has revealed that the US intelligence community once believed India and Pakistan were on the brink of war in 2002, following the Parliament attack (December 2001) and the tense military standoff that followed under Operation Parakram.
In an exclusive interview with ANI, Kiriakou, who led the CIA’s counterterrorism operations in Pakistan after 9/11, said the US took the threat seriously enough to evacuate American families from Islamabad.
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"Family members had been evacuated from Islamabad. We believed India and Pakistan would go to war," Kiriakou recalled.
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