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| US Needs Afghan Base to Fight Terrorists in Pakistan: Riedel |
| 2011-05-13 |
[Tolo News] Since the US cannot rely on Pakistain to fight al-Qaeda we need Afghanistan to put our pressures on thug networks supported by Pakistain, Bruce Riedel a former advisor to President Barack B.O.Obama writes on the Daily Beast website. An article by Bruce Riedel published on the Daily Beast on May 10 said "the notion that al-Qaeda was neutered was just plain wrong". The al-Qaeda leadership has already made a new leadership and they "will get help from support networks in Pakistain that helped hide Bin Laden for a decade". "In short, al-Qaeda's leader was organising global terrorism from a headquarters deep inside Pakistain. He may have dyed his hair and liked to re-watch his own propaganda videos, but he was also dangerous," the article said. The article finds the level of Pak support for al-Qaeda and other terror groups as the "most important" revelation of the US raid on Pakistain's soil. It said it is not possible to think "we can target these terrorist networks in Pakistain without a base nearby in Afghanistan". Since attacks from other US bases like the Arabian Sea do not work "we need Afghanistan to launch our counterinsurgency operations, including drone attacks and commando raids". The Afghan government should let us target the Taliban and al-Qaeda from their land, it said. Pakistain has long been considered as a terrorism hub by Afghanistan and its western allies. However the death of the late Osama bin Laden ... who sleeps with the fishes... in Pakistain was a plain indication of Osama spending years and commanding attacks against Afghanistan and the world before he was rubbed out. Pakistain government is still trying to beat around the bush refusing the broad linkage with the terrorist networks. The two-day Kandahar raid that led to the death of a couple of people "showed that any substantial drawdown of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... forces this summer would be strategically unwise and risky". Afghan cops are not ready enough to take security lead, especially in southern regions. The Kandahar attack launched by the Taliban "was planned from the group's safe havens in Pakistain", it said. |
| Posted by:Fred |