"arrests, military operations and intelligence leaks to make it appear as though Pakistan is making big progress in the war on terror."
100s of terrorists arrested this summer, one of them the IT guy for Al Qaeda, opening up the whole Al Qaeda network ... more 'pretending' like this and we'll have nothing more than a pretend Al Qaeda left.
100s of terrorists arrested this summer, one of them the IT guy for Al Qaeda, opening up the whole Al Qaeda network ... more 'pretending' like this and we'll have nothing more than a pretend Al Qaeda left.
Al Qaeda is a movement. It will not disappear by arresting "100s" of bearded men. It has a few people capable of leading and many thousands from which it can pick and choose volunteers. So far few of the "100s" of people arrested in Pakistan amount to anything. Of the people they arrested, there are many like them where they came from.
The "IT guy opening up the whole Al Qaeda network" is mostly convenient and self-serving hype peddled by the Pakistanis. That guy was a Walter Mitty.
The real question is - Have we degraded the infrastructure of terror in Pakistan beyond a point where it poses a manageable threat to us? The answer is a resounding no.