Gates: Qaeda has regrouped in Pakistan border area
Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:15pm EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda has regrouped in
Pakistan's remote Afghan border area and begun to
focus attacks on the Pakistani government and
military, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on
Friday.
But the Pentagon chief said al Qaeda's activities in
Pakistan have not yet affected Afghanistan, where U.S.
and coalition forces have faced increased Taliban
violence in the past two years.
"There is no question that some of the areas in the
frontier area have become areas where Al Qaeda has
re-established itself," Gates said. "But so far, we
haven't seen any significant consequence of that in
Afghanistan itself.
"Al Qaeda right now seems to have turned its face
toward Pakistan and attacks on the Pakistani
government and Pakistani people," he told reporters.
Gates said the Pentagon was looking for ways to
improve the Pakistani army's counter-insurgency
capabilities by providing training and equipment. The
United States provides hundreds of millions of dollars
in security-related aid to Pakistan annually.
Attacks on the Pakistan government and military have
increased in recent weeks. A suicide bomber killed 10
Pakistani military recruits in the northwestern town
of Kohat on Monday.
More than 400 people have been killed in suicide bomb
attacks in Pakistan in recent months, most in the
North West Frontier Province.
(Reporting by Kristin Roberts; Editing by Bill Trott)
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