Are Pakistan's New Terror Networks A Threat Against The U.S. Homeland?

Devastation: Pakistani policemen and onlookers gather as smoke billows from the burning Marriott Hotel in 2008 (AFP)

Pakistan's New Networks of Terror -- Foreign Policy

It's not just about Waziristan anymore. How the country's various militias are joining forces -- and what it could mean for attacks within the United States.

On May 28, several mercenaries invaded two mosques in Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city, and ended up mowing down nearly 100 Ahmadis, members of a breakaway sect that was officially declared to be non-Muslim in the mid-1970s. The killing was one of the boldest and most deadly in a year of bold and deadly attacks in Pakistan. And it pointed to a frightening development in Pakistani terrorism. The militants had a typical profile for jihadists in Pakistan, having trained in North Waziristan in camps connected to the Pakistani Taliban (TTP). But it also seems likely that they were connected to local Punjabi terrorist groups. In a sign of Pakistan's increasing chaos, the groups that were formerly barricaded in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) along the Afghanistan border are now joining forces with groups around the country -- and the result is a networked terrorism outfit with an ever-growing capacity to produce pain and mayhem.

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My Comment: Pakistan terror groups have been active outside of Pakistan .... why not the U.S. But considering how bloody Pakistan's civil war has become in the past year .... coupled with U.S. targeted CIA drone strikes in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas .... I am sure there are many in the region who wish to inflict the same harm and destruction onto the U.S. homeland.