Out of Al Qaeda Top 20 Leaders Killed 11 in Drone Attacks

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 3:58 pm

Lahore: Out of Al Qaeda Top 20 Leaders Killed 11 in Drone Attacks.

Citing an Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency statement, the Daily Times said Pakistan’s intelligence services have started to help the Americans track and kill fugitive terrorists in a bid to revamp their global image.

“We may be crazy in Pakistan, but (we’re) not completely out of our minds. We know full well that terror is our enemy, not India,” ISI Director Lt. General Ahmed Shuja Pasha recently stated.

The 15 billion dollar aid package coming Pakistan’s way over the next 10 years could also be a reason for Islamabad facilitating attacks on Al Quaeda.

The unmanned drone strikes have `stunned’ local Al Qaeda commanders.

“Al Qaeda’s hideouts in Pakistan’s tribal areas aren’t quite as safe as they used to be. We are stunned by such precision,” a local sub-commander was quoted by the Daily Times as saying.

He cites the example of a recent strike in North Waziristan that killed Al Qaeda commander Musataf Al Misri.

“The missile didn’t just hit the right house; it scored a direct hit on the very room where Mustafa Al Misri and several other Qaeda operatives were holed up. It’s as if someone had tossed a GPS device against the wall,” he said.

Naqib Khan, a Taliban intelligence operative, told Newsweek some Qaeda fighters and their friends from Pakistan have been relocating to quieter places in eastern Afghanistan.

Out of Al Qaeda Top 20 Leaders Killed 11 in Drone Attacks

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