[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Excellent ....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I posted this earlier:

Independent US experts cast doubt on NIE findings (Al Qaeda resurgence in North Waziristan)

[Marine_Uncle]

Nice generic summary as to where we may actually stand on the Afghan/Paki boarder issues. One things appears to hold up. Zawahari does not run the whole show. He may find himself on the short end of the stick in due time. To many splintered groups now competing in the way of ideological/mission shifts.
Hopefully the red on red shall continue to grow, and we will get them all to kill each other off. Surely our Special Forces have found enough able bodied Paks that can be integrated into some of these groups over a period of time and perform the required assassinations.

[SunkenCiv]

some senior figures within al-Qa'eda are alarmed that al-Zawahiri's mission to topple and kill Gen Musharraf will provoke a Pakistani military backlash that could jeopardise their safe havens in the mountainous tribal areas on the Afghan border. A rival so-called "Libyan faction" led by Abu Yahya al-Libi, who escaped from the US Bagram base near Kabul in 2005, apparently suspects that al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian-born doctor, is trying to position himself as bin Laden's heir presumptive with his personal crusade. Bin Laden himself is believed to be in hiding, fearful of his whereabouts being discovered.

Thanks Ernest.