Arrests aren't removing the dangers of al-Qaida

[Dover]

Arrests aren't removing the dangers of al-Qaida
Leaders may be falling, but they're being replaced

By DAVID JOHNSTON and DAVID E. SANGER
New York Times News Service
AL-QAIDA


WASHINGTON - A new portrait of al-Qaida's inner workings is emerging from the cache of information seized last month in Pakistan, as investigators begin to identify a new generation of operatives who appear to be filling the vacuum created when leaders were killed or captured, senior intelligence officials said Monday.


Using computer records,

e-mail addresses and other documents seized after the arrest of Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan last month in Pakistan, intelligence analysts say they are finding that al-Qaida's upper echelons are being filled by lower-ranking members and more recent recruits.

There are "some who have been around and some who have stepped up," one official said about al-Qaida's new midlevel structure.

While the findings may result in a significant intelligence coup for the Bush administration and its British allies, they also create a far more complex picture of al-Qaida's status than Bush presents on the campaign trail. For the past few months, the president has often claimed much of al-Qaida's leadership has been killed or captured; the new evidence suggests the organization is regenerating and bringing in new blood....cont'd

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2727347

[underpants]

1. What arrests? Oh........... those TWO

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[skooooo]

2. no shit?

I thought all we had to do was arrest a few people..damn.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Arrests aren't removing

A lack of arrests is not what is creating anti-American sentiment (hatred in other words) around the world. Never has, never will.