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Top Al Qaeda leaders were inside Pakistan: Top US commander |
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Updated at:
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PST, Friday, May 23, 2008 |
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WASHINGTON: U.S. Gen. David Petraeus said al Qaeda's top leaders were inside Pakistan's remote and ungoverned border region, known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and that the group's next major attack would likely originate there.
He characterized al Qaeda's presence in the FATA as a Pakistani problem with global repercussions and said the United States should support Islamabad's counter-terrorism efforts.
"Clearly, al Qaeda senior leadership has been strengthened in the FATA,” Petraeus said in confirmation hearings on his appointment to become head of the US Central Command.
"The organization of an attack, if you will, would likely come from the FATA."
"This is a Pakistani problem that has both repercussions, that does create enormous violence inside Pakistan but ... has global implications as well." |
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