Al Qaeda Chiefs Are Seen to Regain Power (in Pakistan)

[The_Real_ElRoi]

Al Qaeda Chiefs Are Seen to Regain Power


By MARK MAZZETTI and DAVID ROHDE
Published: February 19, 2007

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 — Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once-battered worldwide terror network and over the past year have set up a band of training camps in the tribal regions near the Afghan border, according to American intelligence and counterterrorism officials.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/19/world/asia/19intel.html?_r=1&oref=slogin


It never ceases to amaze me how so-called "journalists" today seem to be not just years, but decades behind what is actually going on in the world. One can only assume the "authors" of the above article haven't made much of an effort to find out that al Qaeda and Bin Laden have been involved with the Pakistani government for two decades. The real shame is that all of the information was not only reported on by numerous reputable sources over the last twenty years, but that it has all been compiled for them:

Center for Cooperative Research

And yet they choose to ignore all this information in their article.

 

[Hatuey]

I say we dust off our little boys and fat men and send a few of them over there. I'm getting sick of these mountain hillbillies.

 

[jfuh]

I guess this has been what OBL has been up to.

 

[The_Real_ElRoi]

One must also assume that the "authors" are devoid of the fact that by all accounts the 911 hijackers were directly funded by the Pakistani secret service or "ISI" as they are known.

 

[26 X World Champs]

Al Qaeda Chiefs Are Seen to Regain Power


By MARK MAZZETTI and DAVID ROHDE
Published: February 19, 2007

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 — Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once-battered worldwide terror network and over the past year have set up a band of training camps in the tribal regions near the Afghan border, according to American intelligence and counterterrorism officials.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/19/world/asia/19intel.html?_r=1&oref=slogin


It never ceases to amaze me how so-called "journalists" today seem to be not just years, but decades behind what is actually going on in the world. One can only assume the "authors" of the above article haven't made much of an effort to find out that al Qaeda and Bin Laden have been involved with the Pakistani government for two decades. The real shame is that all of the information was not only reported on by numerous reputable sources over the last twenty years, but that it has all been compiled for them:

Center for Cooperative Research

And yet they choose to ignore all this information in their article.

Of course they're getting stronger because Bush has diverted so many resources, money and intelligence that it became inevitable that AQ would regroup.

Bush is once again to blame and once again it's another example of how poor a choice starting the Iraq war was. Now the idiot that has the football is threatening Iran everyday and trying like he did with Iraq to create reasons to attack Iran while AQ gets stronger and stronger.

Pakistan has pulled out of the critical border regions thus allowing AQ to strengthen. Where is our influence on the Pakistani government? Does anyone actually think the Afghani government is strong and stable outside of Kabul?

You want scary? What happens if the President of Pakistan is assassinated and Islamic fundamentalists take over and get control of Pakistan's nukes?

Bush and his failed policies are putting everyone of us into graver and graver danger everyday, especially those of us who live in New York and Washington DC.

 

[niftydrifty]

ABC News: Cheney Asks Musharraf to Fight al-Qaida

I'm going to do something now that I don't do very often, and that is, praise the Bush administration for getting tough with Pakistan.

For too long, we've been too soft on Pakistan, what with how OBL seems to be there, and seems to be thriving. A.Q. Khan was of course active in Pakistan. Pakistan has been the source of too many ties to terror, not to have yet received any sort of, uh, pre-emption.