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“Narcotics Trade Fuels Afghanistan Insurgency, Mullen Says”
By Army Staff Sgt. Michael J. Carden
American Forces Press Service
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19, 2008
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“US strikes in Pakistan aimed at stopping the next Sept.11 attack”
By BILL ROGGIOSeptember 19, 2008 9:32 AM
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “US Special Operations Forces have stepped up attacks inside Pakistan’s lawless tribal agencies in part of an effort to prevent the next major attack inside the United States, senior military and intelligence sources told The Long War Journal.
The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the subject, said reports that the Bush administration is focused on “getting Osama bin Laden,” the elusive leader of al Qaeda’s global network, are overblown.
“Getting bin Laden would be nice, and it would clearly be a victory, but at the end of the day, al Qaeda’s network will still exist,” one source told The Long War Journal. “We need to take down that network to stop the next attack on US soil. Al Qaeda is more than bin Laden.””