Guest Harry Hope Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070723/ts_afp/usattackspakistanqaeda_070723095938 US angers Pakistan over Al-Qaeda claims by Jitendra Joshi WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States was at the center of a new diplomatic row Monday after refusing to rule out military action against Al-Qaeda leaders sheltering inside Pakistan, one of its closest "war on terror" allies. The US director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell, said Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden was in all likelihood alive and sheltering in a frontier zone where pro-Taliban Pakistani tribal leaders hold sway. "My personal view is that he's alive, but we don't know because we can't confirm it for over a year," he told NBC television Sunday. "I believe he is in the tribal region of Pakistan." Senior US officials reiterated that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf remained a lynchpin of the campaign against terrorism. But their comments signaled frustration over what US intelligence chiefs say is Al-Qaeda's resurgence in lawless parts of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan. Asked if the United States could take action inside Pakistan, White House Homeland Security Adviser Frances Townsend said: "There are no tools off the table, and we use all our instruments of national power to be effective." A new report by the US intelligence community last week said that Al-Qaeda had regrouped in its Pakistani "safe haven" and was determined to inflict mass casualties through new attacks on the United States. ______________________________________________ Had the Bush Crime Family taken care of business instead of going after Iraqi oil, things might have been different, but................ Harry Quote
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