Posted on 02/19/2007 6:38:24 PM PST by blam
Bin Laden 'back in control' of terror blitz
By Isambard Wilkinson in Islamabad
Last Updated: 2:12am GMT 20/02/2007
Osama bin Laden has re-established control over a terrorist network along the Pakistan and Afghan border, according to US sources.
American security officials claim that bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, have rebuilt an operations hub in the mountainous Pakistani tribal area of North Waziristan.
"The chain of command has been re-established," The New York Times reported one US government official as saying. The official added that the al-Qa'eda "leadership command and control is robust".
Until recently, the US government had maintained that bin Laden and Zawahiri were effectively cut off from operational control of al-Qa'eda.
However, officials say that new intelligence points to the terrorist network gaining strength despite more than five years of a sustained US-led campaign against it.
The US has also identified several new al-Qa'eda training compounds in North Waziristan, including one that officials said may be training operatives for strikes on targets beyond Afghanistan.
"A particular concern is that the camps are frequented by British citizens of Pakistani descent," stated one US report, which noted terrorist trials in Britain had revealed several with links to Pakistan.
The claim of an al-Qa'eda revival has been the subject of intensive discussion in the Bush government. It has also reignited debate about how to confront Pakistan's role as a haven for militants, without undermining the government of General Pervez Musharraf.
Gen Musharraf has had to strike a balance between placating the US, which has bankrolled his regime, and living with Pakistan's powerful pro-jihad Islamic groups, who have tried three times to kill him and only just failed.
Pakistan's strategy in North Waziristan has come under scrutiny since it signed a peace deal with militants in September, which critics say has effectively ceded control of the area.
It's all about providing Musharraf with political cover in advance of a sustained US strike deep into North Waziristan, IMO.
Bin Laden 'Back In Control' Of Terror Blitz
you bet!
Mark your target. Time for more practice.
I'll line the cat's litter box with the NYT,but only if somebody will give me a free copy.I won't pay for that homo infested commie rag.
I hope you're correct.
What the hell,I thought it was Pakistan and Afghan border!,damn since this surge began the nyt is running out of bad news!
But you'd inflict it on your cat if you can get it free?
--"The chain of command has been re-established," The New York Times reported--
Thanks a lot, NY Slimes geniuses - it was YOU who leaked several of the US antiterrorist strategies.
Is this because Osama is giving interviews to these socialist weenies? The 'evidence' that Osama is in charge of anything anymore is pretty specious. Sure, the media will dispute WMD evidence supported by every intelligence agency on the entire planet but one raghead in Waziristan says Osama is in charge and they run up the flag!
Yup. And Castro is in robust health and Arafat's planning a comeback.
I'm sure the cat will show the NYT the proper respect,the respect it has earned.
How to confront it? Just continue to placate the good muslim general. /sarc off
Osama bin Laden builds day care centers Patty Murray (D WA)
The liberals have to realise that the dems now have control of congress and the senate and that stories such as "Bin Laden 'Back In Control'" does NOT make them look good.
Too much of a coincidence that Bin Laden is "back in control" not long after "democrats are back in control". This political game can easily backfire on them.
It's a new day
How is a senator from the midwest controlling the terrorist.....?
no way, he's not dead - and certainly didn't die in november 2001. who was that in the video released before the 2004 election?
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