Washington has pinpointed the frontier areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan as the most pressing points in which to win the war on terror, according to a BBC report released on Sunday.
United States Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told the BBC that successes against Al Qaeda should not lead to a weakening of resolve. Addressing Oxford University students during his visit to the UK, Chertoff said extremists had “hijacked the language of Islam to mask an ideology that in some respects has more in common with the fascist organisations of the 1930s”.
He questioned whether PakistanÂ’s rulers had the right strategy to respond, the report said.
Chertoff claimed the US had succeeded in pushing back Al Qaeda-in-Iraq and argued that Muslims in Iraq were now reacting against indiscriminate militant violence. |