Sanctuaries of Taliban (in Pakistan) must be hit: US general

[Bhaisahab]

Sanctuaries of Taliban must be hit: US general
By Anwar Iqbal; Dawn, Karachi

WASHINGTON, Feb 14: A top US military commander has called for “steady and direct” attacks on Taliban sanctuaries in Pakistan.

Lt-Gen Karl W. Eikenberry, the outgoing commander of the US forces in Afghanistan, warned that the Karzai government would suffer an irreversible loss of legitimacy among Afghanis if the internal situation did not improve.

“And this is a greater threat than the resurgent Taliban,” he told the House Armed Services Committee in Washington.

The general claimed that senior Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders have set up training camps and recruiting grounds in Pakistan’s tribal areas, which they use for carrying out attacks in Afghanistan.

Since September, when Pakistan signed a peace deal with tribesmen in North Waziristan, “the cross-border attacks have tripled,” he said.

“Al Qaeda and Taliban leadership presence inside Pakistan remains a very significant problem,” Gen Eikenberry told the committee, warning of the “growing threat of Talibanization” inside Pakistan.

CONTINUED AT: http://www.dawn.com/2007/02/15/top5.htm

[Purveyor]

1. Of course no one dismisses that Pakistan is a "nuclear power" and

just a bullet to Musharraf's head unleashes 'nukes gone wild"...

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Easier said than done.

Short of hydrogen bombs, there is no solution to that one anymore. Had they spent the whole Iraq cha-cha there 4 years ago they stood a chance, but it's too late now, it's all been pissed away in Iraq on nothing, UBL is a free man. That region is completely off limits & inaccessible to any US troops. Not that any US troops would want to go anywhere near that place.