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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: TheSarge on September 30, 2008, 07:16:27 PM
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WASHINGTON — Barack Obama and John McCain may continue to debate the merits of aggressive action overseas to protect U.S. security, but CIA Director Michael Hayden said Tuesday the United States needs to be committed to its strategy of "taking the fight to the enemy."
In an exclusive interview with FOX News, one of his last before a new White House administration takes over in January, Hayden said that the U.S. intelligence community is keeping a close eye on Afghanistan's border with Pakistan.
"All of the threats about which we are aware have threads that take them back into that Afghan/Pakistan border region, either in terms of command and control, or training, and direction," he said.
From CIA headquarters, Hayden made the case that a strong offense is the only defense in the war against Al Qaeda.
"And that's why there ... hasn't been an attack for over seven years. Again, the dynamic of our taking the fight to the enemy: making him worry about his own defense, putting him off-balance, sweeping up his operatives, drying up his money supply."
Although he pointed out that U.S. predator strikes have killed top operational commanders, Usama bin Laden still remains at large. Al Qaeda's hold is stronger now in the tribal areas of Pakistan than it was a year ago.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,431022,00.html
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And its just the increasing strength of Al-Q there that will force the Pakis to eventually take action as they will and already have started reaching pack into Pakistan and killing muslims there. THey learned nothing from doing that shit in Iraq.
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And its just the increasing strength of Al-Q there that will force the Pakis to eventually take action as they will and already have started reaching pack into Pakistan and killing muslims there. THey learned nothing from doing that shit in Iraq.
I see a real internal struggle going on if the Pakis decide to get tough on al Qaeda. There are parts of the government that are actively supporting AQ...which is the reason the Paki army has been so inneffictive in routing them out of Wazristan.
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Indeed, and even more ominous... is it might be a gamble with which side wins.
I agree.
The main supporters of The Taliban (not to mention the folks that helped bring them about) is the Paki Intelligence Service the ISI. They are reported to be running some of the Taliban training camps as we speak.
Those guys knowthe moves of the rest of the Government before they make them.