The latest official threat assessment reporting that Al-Qaeda is making a comeback presents a mixed bag for the White House.
Blaring headlines about the terror network’s resurgence neatly underscore Bush administration efforts to stir up public fears, which US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff seems to be doing recently in saying he had “a gut feeling” that Americans face more attacks this summer.
But read a little further into the National Counterterrorism Center’s report on Al-Qaeda’s status and something not so favorable to the White House position emerges. The terrorists responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks are not primarily re-grouping in Iraq, as the Bush administration constantly claims, but instead the assessment concludes that their real base of operations is along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
If anything, this report supports Bush critics who say the war in Iraq diverted critical resources away from the fight against Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
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