Al Qaeda opens second front, says Afghan minister

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.hipakistan.com/en/detail.php?newsId=en44398&F_catID=&f_type=source

KABUL, Nov 7: The Al Qaeda network has stepped up activity along the Afghan-Pakistan border, opening a "second front" to divert US military resources and attention from Iraq, Afghanistan's interior minister said on Friday.

Ali Ahmad Jalali said some recent attacks on US forces, especially in the east of the country, had been carried out by foreign Al Qaeda fighters, as opposed to native Taliban militia.

Militants killed in clashes on the Afghan and Pakistan sides of the border in recent weeks included Arabs, Chechens, Uzbeks and Pakistanis, a sign they were from the network of Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden, whose fate remains a mystery.

"Al Qaeda, not the Al Qaeda leadership that is concerned only about Afghanistan, but the whole area, the whole region, want to keep another front open in Afghanistan while they fight in Iraq in order to split the attention of the United States," Mr Jalali told Reuters in an interview.
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Wait. I thought Al Qaeda was all but finished according to Dubya et. al.

[Pale_Rider]

1. A two-front war ...

... similiar to the one that did in Hilter.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. Seems as if there are hundreds of mini-fronts in Iraq at the moment.

Divide and conquer paradigm. That seems as it someone's coordinating efforts. Amazing after reports of destroying the Al Qaeda leadership per Rummy.

[T Bone]

4. Just wait until they open a third front

or Bush obliges and opens a third front FOR them.

[instantkarma]

2. They're on the run, alright...

they're just running in a different direction from the one Bush would have us believe.