American officials say that the new intelligence is focused on Al
Qaeda and points to the prospect that the terrorist network is gaining
in strength despite more than five years of a sustained American-led
campaign to weaken it.

From The New York Times, 2/19/07:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/19/world/asia/19intel.html?ex=1329541200&en=2a7e4609a99a0ae6&ei...

Al Qaeda Chiefs Are Seen to Regain Power

By MARK MAZZETTI and DAVID ROHDE

WASHINGTON —

Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established
significant control over their once-battered worldwide terror network
and over the past year have set up a band of training camps in the
tribal regions near the Afghan border, according to American
intelligence and counterterrorism officials.

American officials said there was mounting evidence that Osama bin
Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, had been steadily building an
operations hub in the mountainous Pakistani tribal area of North
Waziristan.

On Feb 19, 11:30 am, Harry Hope ix.netcom.com> wrote:

U.S. military investigates leaked photo (of 190 Taliban militants at
funeral/cemetery. MOAB Time!)

KABUL, Afghanistan - The U.S. military said Wednesday it is looking
into the unauthorized release of a photo purportedly taken by an
American drone aircraft showing scores of Taliban militants at a
funeral in Afghanistan.

NBC-TV claimed that U.S. Army officers wanted to attack the ceremony
with missiles carried by the Predator drone, but were prevented under
rules of battlefield engagement that bar attacks on cemeteries.

Lt. Tamara Lawrence, a spokeswoman with the U.S. military in Kabul,
said the photograph was released to the network by someone who did not
have the clearance to hand it out.