Re: Al-Qaeda 'rebuilding' in Pakistan(They are COMING)
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National Intelligence Director John Negroponte said al-Qaeda was strengthening itself across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe
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As far as I know Pakistan has no borders with any Middle Eastern, North African or European country. So obviously "Al Qaida" must have secure hideouts in many countries across those regions, and Negroponte should elaborate who those are.
Re: Al-Qaeda ‘rebuilding’ in Pakistan(They are COMING)
technically yes, but the USA now includes Pakistan in its defintion of the "greater middle east’.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ec/GreaterMiddleEast2.png
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^
Does anyone include us in their defintion of a European or a North African country? :)
Re: Al-Qaeda ‘rebuilding’ in Pakistan(They are COMING)
LOL
Re: Al-Qaeda 'rebuilding' in Pakistan(They are COMING)
yaar mazaq kyun urratay ho tum log, bhai ko aik globe naheen bhej saktay?
Re: Al-Qaeda 'rebuilding' in Pakistan(They are COMING)
i doubt the US would launch a full-out assault as they did in say, Afghanistan, but I think we will be seeing more UAV's firing hellfire missiles in FATA.
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I think Bush and co no where to hide and blame its own failures,
just compare, which country is better governed? how can you compare a govenrment in Kabul with one in Pakistan with very well structured government agencies, strong army. I think if US is sure about any hide outs they would have already bombed it, be it within Pakistan side of the border.
They just dont know where they are with all the might and they are being Failed! in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Haqqani is definitely in Pakistan. That’s where he was based when he was fighting the Soviets as well. Either the ISI is compeltely incompetent or they are giving their former allies room to operate. I wouldn’t be surprised if Hekmatyar is also in Pakistan with the knowledge of ISI.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070114/ap_on_re_as/afghanistan_10
U.S. gen.: Insurgent chief in Pakistan
By RAHIM FAIEZ, Associated Press Writer 48 minutes ago
BAGRAM, Afghanistan - An Afghan insurgent leader operating from inside Pakistan sent some 200 ill-equipped fighters, some wearing plastic bags on their feet, into
Afghanistan where most were killed in a major battle this week, a top U.S. general said Saturday.
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Maj. Gen. Benjamin Freakley said that Jalaluddin Haqqani recruited and sent unemployed and untrained men to fight in Afghanistan.
U.S. forces killed about 130 fighters moving in two groups in the eastern province of Paktika late Wednesday and early Thursday, one of the largest winter battles in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
“There’s Taliban leaders in Pakistan,” Freakley said. “We know that this group … were from Jalaluddin Haqqani and we believe, though we don’t know exactly where, that Jalaluddin Haqqani is operating from inside Pakistan and sending men to fight in Afghanistan.”
Western and Afghan officials accuse Pakistan of not doing enough to stop Taliban fighters using Pakistani soil as a training ground from crossing the border into Afghanistan. Pakistan says it does all it can to stop the fighters.
No officials in Pakistan could immediately be reached for comment.
Freakley said that one of the enemies in the Afghan-Pakistan border area is unemployment.
“It is clear to me that some of these men were just either collected in a poor part of a village or perhaps from a madrassa or perhaps from a refugee camp and told to come fight,” he said. “The message to the enemies of Afghanistan and the enemies of world peace would be that you can come at us with two people, 20 people, 200 people, 2,000 people, you’ll be defeated and your young men will needlessly be killed.”
Freakley said it was likely the insurgent fighters meant to attack a new military outpost near the village of Marghah that has affected insurgent infiltration routes.
In southern Afghanistan, meanwhile,
NATO troops fought insurgents Saturday in a battle that left one Western soldier dead — NATO’s first fatality of the year.
NATO’s International Security Assistance Force said the soldier died during an operation and that air support was used against insurgent positions. NATO refused to release any other details until the next of kin were notified.
Taliban militants stepped up attacks last year, and insurgent-related violence killed some 4,000 people in the bloodiest year since the U.S.-led coalition ousted the Taliban in late 2001.
Re: Al-Qaeda ‘rebuilding’ in Pakistan(They are COMING)
Yup, next time I am in DC I will drop Negroponte a Globe, so then he won’t talk out of his backside. 
