duh....it appears Pakistan has the right Idea...
Pakistan calls on US, NATO to beef up Al-Qaeda hunt
DUBAI (AFP) - The United States and other NATO members should adopt "more security measures" in the hunt for Al-Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan (news - web sites), Al-Hayat newspaper quoted the Pakistani Interior Minister as saying.
Asked about the whereabouts of terror chief Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, Faisal Saleh Hayat on Tuesday said: "Our estimations, as the Pakistani government and security services, are that they are all holed up in specific areas ... in the Pakistani border area or inside Afghanistan.
"Because Afghanistan is still on the way to building its own security, there are still districts outside state authority where it is very easy for any suspect to hide in Afghanistan," he told the Arabic daily.
"This is why we will continue our efforts and we call on America and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) to exert more efforts and adopt more security measures to surround these elements," he added.
The minister also claimed that Al-Qaeda had been seriously weakened by the arrest of suspected key operatives in the terror network.
He particularly cited the capture in July of Tanzanian Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a suspect in the bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, which he said yielded a huge trove of information on Al-Qaeda.
"And there were other very important arrests in terms of getting information. As a result, we have succeeded in penetrating the Al-Qaeda network in Pakistan and abroad," he said.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was reported as saying on Tuesday that top Al-Qaeda operatives have fled sanctuaries near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan to cities and other countries after army raids.
DUBAI (AFP) - The United States and other NATO members should adopt "more security measures" in the hunt for Al-Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan (news - web sites), Al-Hayat newspaper quoted the Pakistani Interior Minister as saying.
Asked about the whereabouts of terror chief Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, Faisal Saleh Hayat on Tuesday said: "Our estimations, as the Pakistani government and security services, are that they are all holed up in specific areas ... in the Pakistani border area or inside Afghanistan.
"Because Afghanistan is still on the way to building its own security, there are still districts outside state authority where it is very easy for any suspect to hide in Afghanistan," he told the Arabic daily.
"This is why we will continue our efforts and we call on America and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) to exert more efforts and adopt more security measures to surround these elements," he added.
The minister also claimed that Al-Qaeda had been seriously weakened by the arrest of suspected key operatives in the terror network.
He particularly cited the capture in July of Tanzanian Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a suspect in the bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, which he said yielded a huge trove of information on Al-Qaeda.
"And there were other very important arrests in terms of getting information. As a result, we have succeeded in penetrating the Al-Qaeda network in Pakistan and abroad," he said.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was reported as saying on Tuesday that top Al-Qaeda operatives have fled sanctuaries near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan to cities and other countries after army raids.
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