Al-Qaeda using Pakistan as staging post to plot global terror AFP

[Nambe]

ISLAMABAD (AFP)

The recent arrests of high-profile Al-Qaeda suspects have revealed the terrorist network is using Pakistan as a staging post for plotting attacks across the globe, analysts said.

Al-Qaeda has effectively declared war on the Pakistani government led by General Pervez Musharraf, and most experts believe the group's leaders including Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) are hiding in Pakistan's northern tribal areas.

"Despite three years of our efforts to chase these guys, we have not been able to degrade their network," Riffat Hussain, who heads the department of strategic studies at Islamabad's Quaid-e-Azam university, told AFP on Thursday.

"It indicates the problem is far more serious than one had anticipated. It also shows the resilience of Al-Qaeda cells to re-group and revitalize, then operate and plan from these areas." ..

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[varun]

1. This is news?

Pakistan has been the epicenter of worldwide terrorism since early 1990s. US is waking up to this fact now?

[Jawja]

2. But we are safer

because we got Saddam.

:eyes:

[bemildred]

3. Yeah, I could swear I read this same story three years ago. nt