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| 'Militants from Pakistan most likely authors of future US attack' |
| 2008-06-11 |
| Any future terror attack against US interests would most likely be carried out by militants based in Pakistan’s restive tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen said on Tuesday. The top military official told a press conference here that tribal groups with ties to Al Qaeda in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) represent the worst security threat to the US. “I believe fundamentally that if the US is going to get hit, it is going to come out of the planning of the leadership in FATA,” he told reporters. “That is a threat to us that must be dealt with,” Mullen said. Pakistan’s government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, launched peace talks with the militants after coming to power in March. The new government, Mullen said, faces “significant challenges as it gets underway, and at the same time is looking to the best way to deal with this challenge”. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Box cutters, TW. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-06-11 17:39 |
| #4 This puts all who travel to and from Pakistan under scrutiny, whether they are inbound to Europe or the US. It is a far harder problem for the Euros, especially the Brits, to deal with/monitor than it is for us. |
| Posted by: remoteman 2008-06-11 14:05 |
| #3 9/11 was planned from Afghanistan, which is why we went there in the first place. No surprise that threats from terrorists most likely come from safe havens like the FATA, which is Pakistani in name and not in governance. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2008-06-11 09:06 |
| #2 TW, considering that they'd have the covert backing of parts of the Pak government, I'd say yes. |
| Posted by: Spot 2008-06-11 08:01 |
| #1 Are they sophisticated enough in the tribal belt to formulate and execute the kind of sophisticated approach necessary to successfully attack the United States? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-06-11 06:39 |