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Are there connections between Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the Pakistani ISI?

A DIA analysis carries the most damning account of Pakistan's role as the real host of bin Laden and his Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. It says: "Bin Laden's Al Qaeda network was able to expand under the safe santuary extended by Taliban following Pakistan directives. If there is any doubt on that issue, consider the location of bin Laden's camp targeted by US Cruise missiles, Zahawa. Positioned on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, it was built by Pakistani contractors, funded by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate and protected under the patronage of a local and influential Jadran tribal leader, Jalaluddin Haqqani. However, the real host in that facility was the Pakistani ISI. If this was later to become bin Laden's base, then serious questions are raised by the early relationship between bin Laden and Pakistan's ISI." http://www.saag.org/papers8/paper791.html

Public Comments

1. Their connections go all the way back to when Russia invaded Afghanistan.
2. I must admit I really don't know anything for sure, but I am listening to an audio book by Seymour Hersh called Chain of Command. In the book he sites a story about the US military and the northern alliance surrounding a town held by the Taliban. Apparently Al-Qaeda, and some Pakistani military were all there together. Pakistan wanted to airlift their guys out of there, and they ended up taking some of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda with them. Pakistan was one of the only countries to recognize the Taliban government.