Al-Qa'ida 'changing focus to Pakistan'

INTELLIGENCE assessments showing al-Qa'ida was changing its focus from Iraq
to Pakistan and Afghanistan were highlighted yesterday by US commander David
Petraeus as leaders in Islamabad called a crisis meeting over the jihadi
militancy sweeping the country.
General Petraeus said that after intense US assaults in Iraq, al-Qa'ida was
looking to shift focus to its original home base in Afghanistan, where
American casualties are running higher than in Iraq.
"We do think that there is some assessment ongoing as to the continued
viability of al-Qa'ida's fight in Iraq," General Petraeus said.
General Petraeus is the planner behind the US "surge" tactics in Iraq and is
soon to take over a new command that includes responsibility for US military
operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
He said US intelligence about al-Qa'ida's changed focus was not "solid
gold", but said fewer foreign fighters were going to Iraq; they were instead
going to Afghanistan and Pakistan. From a peak of 80 to 100 foreign fighters
entering Iraq each month, the total had dropped to as low as 20 a month, he
said.
"We do know the foreign fighter flow into Iraq has been reduced very
substantially," General Petraeus said. "They're not going to abandon Iraq.
They're not going to write it off. None of that. But what they certainly may
do is start to provide some of those resources that would have come to Iraq
to Pakistan, possibly Afghanistan."
The comments came as Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was to hold
a "showdown" with US President George W.Bush in Washington over what is now
regarded as the out of control situation in the country, with al-Qa'ida and
the Taliban in charge of vast swaths of territory.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24048848-2703,00.html
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Al Qaida's Wet DreamLand is taking over PakiLand, with it's nuclear aresnal.
Osama has orgasims when he thinks about tossing a few Israel's way, and to
NYC.

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