From the DEBKAfile:

According to the US administration official, “Just as MullahMullah OmarOmar is giving strategic direction for the Taliban from Quetta, capital of Balochistan, the al Qaeda senior leadership carries out its planning in Pakistan’s tribal areas (FATA) on the Afghan border. He named also Zawahri and AbuAbu LaithLaith al-Libi. The latter was killed in January in a suspected US Predator drone strike over NorthNorth WaziristanWaziristan.

There is a threat from these sanctuaries not only west into Afghanistan, said the S official, but to the east into Pakistan and beyond CentralCentral AsiaAsia. One of its gains was the assassination of Pakistan politician BenazirBenazir BhuttoBhutto in December. He found clear links between the insurgency in Afghanistan and Pakistan through the Pashtun tribal link which inhabits the Afghan-Pakistan border.

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