Al-Qaida Still Running Terror Camps in Pak: US
Even as a fresh charge-sheet filed by the US Department of Justice reveals that al-Qaida is still running terrorist training camps in Pakistan, the Obama Administration has maintained that it is receiving important counter-terrorism contribution from Islamabad, said media reports.
The Justice Department said that al-Qaida leadership in Pakistan directed the New York bomb plot uncovered in September 2009, reports said.
The eleven-page charge-sheet filed by the department in New York federal court said that five of the accused got training from al-Qaeda in Waziristan in 2008 and early 2009, said reports.
US prosecutors have accused al-Qaeda leadership of directing the accused to attack the New York subway system last year.
However, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said that the US has received ‘significant counter-terrorism cooperation’ from Pakistan, reports said.
David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, said that these charges underscore the global nature of the terrorist threat, said reports.
“They further reflect the effectiveness of mutual investigations and cooperation with our global partners in disrupting terrorism threats,” he was quoted as saying.
Sean Joyce, Executive Assistant Director of the FBI’s National Security Branch, said: “The threat posed by terrorists around the world is a threat to security and a threat to the rule of law.”
(Based on internet reports)
