Free Republic

14 November 2004 -- A top general in Pakistan's army says his troops will cleanse Al-Qaeda linked militants from a district near the Afghan border by year's end. But the general says there is still no sign of the top target of the U.S.-led war on terrorism, Al-Qaeda head Osama bin Laden. The announcement was made today by Major General Niaz Khattak, the field commander of Pakistani troops who are hunting the remnants of Al-Qaeda in South Waziristan. "We have made substantial spatial gains in South Waziristan. We have caused considerable attrition on [the part of] the militants. We have...