Transcripts of Blackberry messenger conversations between Hussain Haqqani and Mansoor Ijaz – Part 4

HH: And no one else might tell you this, you re becoming irritable and losing your sense of humor as you grow old

HH: Let this one go. There is much to do. MUCH. And then, there s the beach where I ve been waiting to be invited, the slum boy visiting the millionaire

MI: I m not a millionaire. But I do know a nice piece of beach!

HH: I m not a slum boy either but I know how to make friends with smart people with a sense of history 😛

MI: Jesus, then what the — are you doing hanging around with me? =D

HH: We ll make things happen and if we can t, we ll write a book about it

HH: Who said I was hanging around with you. A minute ago I thought you were about to hang me 😀

MI: :O MI: Really?

HH: Look, Isloo is a mess. Journos gone wild. Politicos scared of mil. Mil scared of Yanks.

MI: Tell me one important thing. Who likes you and who hates you in the US establishment? Who wants you to stay and who wants to — you up?

HH: The debate abt your oped has caused my detractors to put pressure on my boss

HH: In US estab, I can count on Leon and Petraeus

MI: I thought YOU were the boss!

MI: Who is against you?

HH: Folks at State don t like me

MI: Why?

MI: Too close to AZ?

HH: They think I am too mixed up w/ DoD and others and do not help them cut deals w/ Pak mil

HH: Close to AZ bit too

HH: They are wrong re DoD and others.

HH: It is just that becoz of A tan, they are more imp than State

MI: I always thought HRC was one of your fans. She even has a lady from our parts working with her

HH: It is folks at State who got pissed off by your mission

HH: She may be but I was Holbrooke s buddy so everyone who hates him hates me

HH: I have no time for just pushing paper around

HH: State likes process

MI: Which mission? Sudan, Kashmir, there were so many they got pissed off about. I showed them how to do real American diplomacy and that was like a big pile of shit on their desk they couldn t swallow

HH: Conferences, statements-with nothing changing

HH: The latest one

MI: Yeah, I got it. You re right!

MI: Anyway, State will always hate me because I don t accept their muddling way of doing things

HH: I don t know for a fact but I won t be surprised if the FO statement was prompted by someone here

HH: Robin Raphel is back as Grossman s deputy

HH: You stepped on her toes w/ Kashmir mission

MI: That would be typical. But Grossman knows me and he knows how serious I am. Raphael still hates me for the Kashmir intervention where she did everything she could to fuck me up

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