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Al-Qaeda re-grouping in Pakistan

France News.Net
Saturday 5th July, 2008

A senior US security official has reportedly said that al-Qaeda is regrouping itself in tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has said that he fears al-Qaeda and other militant organisations could resume their activities after turning the Pakistani Tribal Areas bordering Afghanistan into their centre.

He said Pakistan was so far not a safe haven for Al Qaeda as was Afghanistan at one time, but neither the US nor Pakistan should remain indifferent to the problem.

"Our biggest apprehension is that Al Qaeda and the likes have the ability to secure such safe havens where not only can they train the recruits but also establish research centres and then use these areas in the attacks against the West," he said in an interview with BBC.

The reorganisation of Al Qaeda and the similar groups in Pakistan was not only a source of apprehension for the US, but also for its European allies and added that Pakistani authorities must also be concerned.

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Comments on this story

Anonymous
07-05-08, 06:44 AM

Al-Qaeda re-grouping in Pakistan

Whoa, what are we going to do about this? Have a war on Al Quaida? Have a war on Pakistan? Assassinate Musharraf?

What do you think George?

Better call Dick and see what he wants to do eh?

Osama Saladin
07-05-08, 06:50 PM

..YOU LOOSE..Better go lock your doors and hide under the bed.
Now Al-qaeda have won you have to turn to sharia law.
The end of the world is comeing...
AAAHHHHHHH I’m Dead...????
LOL

Sir Galahad.
07-06-08, 05:48 AM

Always scaremongering to get what they want.

US forever the scaremonger. Not content with scarying themselves silly,they try to rope in their allies' support by putting fear into them too. Using the scare card on the Pakistani authorities cos' they need them to fight these people. The pakis. should tell the al-qaeda,'you go get them,we’ll close an eye or look the other way.'

Anonymous
07-06-08, 06:22 AM

A nuke ain’t going to do jackshit exept make the rest of the world hate you even more.
Face it no smart bomb,phosfurous or napalm is going to make a world of difrence not that you are trying to make a difrence in the first place...Realy you inflame war and your THIRST FOR BLOOD knows no bounds.
You had just better hope that confuseing you into your next target(IRAN) does not involve a NUKE on new york or washington.
I will laugh and say.It’s war, innocent people die ,so what.


Just Midnight
07-05-08, 02:24 PM

better call whata, que'?

Just a bit reDickulous everyday of their lives.

Nuc.
07-06-08, 04:11 AM

A good place to test a nuclear explosion. A good trianing ground for the armed forces of any country to drop a nuc. and see if they could hit the target.The Al qaedas training ground. See if the nuc bomb could sink a mountain of terrain of the Pakistan mountenous country side.You wont hear no more of thier B.S.A very good place as testing ground for nucs. and hydrogen bombs.That will stop all radicals for recruiting and training.

waltky
08-09-08, 05:43 PM

Fearless W hot on Osama’s trail...
;)
US mulls military forays into Pakistan
9 Aug 2008, WASHINGTON: Top Bush administration officials are urging the president to direct US troops in Afghanistan to be more aggressive in pursuing militants into Pakistan on foot as part of a proposed radical shift in its regional counterterrorism strategy.

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Senior intelligence and military aides want President Bush to give American soldiers greater flexibility to operate against al-Qaida and Taliban fighters who cross the border from Pakistan’s lawless tribal border area to conduct attacks inside Afghanistan, officials say. The plan could include sending US special forces teams, temporarily assigned to the CIA, into the tribal areas to hit high-value targets, according to an intelligence official with direct knowledge of the plan.

Such a move would be controversial, in part because of Pakistani opposition to US incursions into its territory, and the proposal is not universally supported in Washington. It comes amid growing political instability in Pakistan and concerns that the elements of Pakistan’s security forces are collaborating with extremists. Senior members of Bush’s national security team met last week at the White House to discuss the recommendations and are now weighing how to proceed, the officials said.

The top agenda item at the meeting of the so-called deputies committee - usually the No. 2 officials at the departments of defence, and state, plus the intelligence agencies and the National Security Council - was to “review and potentially revise cross-border strategy," a US official told AP. Officials closer to the front lines in Afghanistan also are pushing for a newly aggressive stance. The rules currently limiting US incursions into Pakistan when in hot pursuit of enemy fighters would not be stretched under the plan.

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