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nytimes.com - 6/12/2009

Some in Qaeda Leave Pakistan for Somalia and Yemen

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Some in Qaeda Leave Pakistan for Somalia and Yemen

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Increased Communication, Transit of Pakistani al Qaeda to Yemen and Somalia
Armies of Liberation — Well we knew that was coming. NYT : American officials say they are seeing the first evidence that dozens of fighters with Al Qaeda, and a small handful of the terrorist group’s leaders, are moving to Somalia and Yemen from their principal haven in Pakistan’s tribal areas. In communications that are being watched carefully at the Pentagon, the White House and the Central Intelligence Agency, the terrorist groups in all three locations are now communicating more frequently, and apparently trying to coordinate their actions, the officials said… The shift of fighters is still ...

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Al Qaeda Moving from Pakistan to Somalia and Yemen
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They're International Terrorists
The Corner on National Review Online — Friday, June 12, 2009 [image] They're International Terrorists [ Jonathan Foreman ] I'm not sure what to make of this report in the New York Times today that al-Qaeda is leaving Pakistan for Somalia and Yemen. It may well be true that our strikes on al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan have had a cumulative effect and some of the "militants" think that they would be safer in the all-but-stateless chaos of Somalia or the peculiar conditions of Yemen (pro-Islamist government with only loose control over rugged territory and tough well-armed tribesmen). On the other hand, their friends and hosts in the Pakistani versions of the Taliban can ...