Al Qaeda's declaration of war on Iraq may be no more than a desperate effort to dislocate Pakistan's cooperation with us and Afghan forces in hammering al Qaeda. (Tip to Instapundit)
Indeed, we may have just missed getting bin Laden in August inside Afghanistan (this certainly assumes he's not dead already).
Apparently, reports in the summer that al Qaeda had abandoned a bunch of camps in Pakistan reflected an al Qaeda fear we were about to JDAM them into splinters, were correct. The reports, that is. I have no idea if we were really going to hammer the camps.
So as a result, they fled into Afghanistan. And we hit them there. Hard.
This doesn't paint the global jihad "reconstituting" in Pakistan in a very good light.
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- Brian J. Dunn
- I live and write in Ann Arbor, Michigan. University of Michigan AB and MA from Eastern Michigan University. One term in the Michigan Army National Guard. Former American history instructor and retired nonpartisan research analyst. I write on Blogger and Substack. Various military and private journals have published my occasional articles on military subjects. See "My Published Works" on the TDR web version or under the mobile version drop-down menu for citations and links.
