AL QAEDA SAFE HAVEN IN PAKISTAN. This from the NY Times:

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.

Allowing your enemy an untouchable safe haven is not a sound strategy. Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani president, will at some point have to act, either by taking action himself or by giving the green light to US forces to attack both the Taliban and al Qaeda strongholds in the fronteir provinces which are only nominally under Pakastani control. But he has shown an ever increasing reticence to act over the past two years. Why that is so probably has as a lot to do with the internal dynamics of his hold on power in Pakistan as well a concern about the committment of the United States in seeing the war on terror through to a conclusion. -- a conclusion that will take more then one generation, it would seem.

Update: From the Telegraph (UK)