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New Generation of Al-Qaeda Chiefs Is Seen on Rise


[New York Times] Mark Mazzetti - As al-Qaeda rebuilds in Pakistan's tribal areas, a new generation of leaders has emerged under Osama bin Laden to cement control over the network's operations, according to American intelligence and counterterrorism officials. According to a reassessment within the American intelligence community, al-Qaeda's core leadership was not as weakened as once thought, bringing new urgency to joint Pakistani and American intelligence operations in Pakistan to dismantle al-Qaeda's infrastructure there in order to disrupt nascent large-scale terrorist plots that may already be underway.
2007-04-02 01:00:00
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