The number of Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) members who believe in the Islamist jihad of Al Qaeda and the Taliban is growing exponentially, US and Western intelligence authorities say. For its part, the ISI historically has supported the Taliban.

As a result of this burgeoning sympathy within ISI for Taliban and Al Qaeda jihadists, including protecting these terrorist organizations' training safe havens along the Afghanistan border, Al Qaeda has become much more capable of attacking the US on its own soil than it’s been able to do since 9/11, Ted Gistaro, National Intelligence Officer for Transnational Threats in the Office of Director of National Intelligence, said Tuesday. ....