Update to Annotated ABC Jundullah post below. Spoke with Brian Ross, who says among other things that "I feel very comfortable with the thrust of that [Jundullah] report. ... We really did have a number of U.S. and European government sources who walked us through that story, which essentially is [that] the U.S. is not funding that group, but is offering advice and guidance and is in contact with that group." He couldn't provide more details on the record but could say that "We feel comfortable wih sources not from Debat that the U.S. has at least contact with and communication with that group on an ongoing basis ... to help fight al Qaeda."

Background from me here and Pascal Riche's latest here.

A new statement from Debat is available here.

Posted by Laura at September 15, 2007 03:37 PM