From Washington Post:Drone-launched U.S. missile attacks and Pakistan's ongoing military offensive in and around the Swat Valley have unsettled al-Qaeda and undermined its relative invulnerability in Pakistani mountain sanctuaries, U.S. military and intelligence officials say.
The dual disruption offers potential new opportunities to ferret out and target the extremists, and it has sparked a new sense of possibility amid a generally pessimistic outlook for the conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Although al-Qaeda remains "a serious, potent threat," a U.S. counterterrorism official said, "they've suffered some serious losses and seem to be feeling a heightened sense of anxiety -- and that's not a bad thing at all."
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My Comment:It has almost been 8 years since the Taliban were forced out of Afghanistan and sent into hiding along the Afghan/Pakistan mountainous border. Pakistan's military has always avoided these areas .... until now. I am sure that this development by itself will unsettle anyone who has lived in this area for the past few years.
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