Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden T-shirts
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A senior White House official said Sunday that the
U.S. will use any measure to deal with the al Qaeda terrorist
organization, including a military strike inside Pakistan.(Xinhua/AFP
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WASHINGTON,
July 22 (Xinhua) -- The United States will use any measure to deal with the al
Qaeda terrorist organization, including a military strike inside Pakistan, a
senior White House official said Sunday.
"No question that we will use any instrument at our
disposal to deal with the problem of (al Qaeda leaders) Osama bin Laden and
Zawahiri and al Qaeda," said Fran Townsend, the president's homeland security
adviser, when asked if the United States would use direct military force against
Taliban or al Qaeda elements inside Pakistan.
In an interview with the CNN news network, Townsend
said there were "no tools off the table," and that the United States would use
all "our instruments of national power to be effective" to kill bin Laden and
other high-ranking al Qaeda leaders.
In a report released last week, the office of
Director of the National Intelligence warned that al Qaeda was stepping up its
efforts to plot attacks on U.S. soil.
Al Qaeda "is and will remain the most serious
terrorist threat to the homeland as its central leadership continues to plan
high-impact plots while pushing" other terrorists to "mimic its efforts," the
report said.
BEIJING, July 12 (Xinhuanet) -- A U.S. government analysis
concludes that Al Qaeda has been the strongest it has ever been since just
before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, media reported Wednesday.
The report, a five-page threat assessment compiled by
the National Counterterrorism Center, is titled "Al-Qaida Better Positioned to
Strike the West," intelligence officials familiar with it said. Full story
WASHINGTON, June 25 (Xinhua) -- The U.S.
military is exploring ways to offer financial aid and other support to Iraqi
tribes that have turned against al-Qaeda or want to protect their neighborhoods,
the USA Today newspaper reported Monday.
The effort comes amid complaints by the Bush
administration that Iraq's Shiite-led government has been slow to reach out to
Sunni groups on its own. Full story
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