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09/13/2004:

"Experts Say Terrorists Regroup, See Lengthy War"

KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - The international war on terror will prove a long drawn-out battle as militants reorganize themselves into smaller groups, Asian defense experts said Monday.

``Al Qaeda has broken its organization into smaller units of elements, making a network in third world nations,'' Wan Usman, head of strategic studies at the University of Jakarta in Indonesia told a seminar on the changing global security environment.

The network had penetrated institutions, and managed to fan destructive radical anti-Western teachings in some Muslim schools in the region, he said.

Pakistan, a key ally of the United States in the war on terror, organized the seminar as part of an international defense exhibition that formally opens in Karachi Tuesday.

Full Article: Reuters

How helpful that our key ally Pakistan is organizing international seminars, expert that it is on the subject of terrorists, housing so many of them, maybe even, who knows, Osama himself. But the US can't go invading Pakistan and Saudi now, can they? Those countries actually have armed forces, and Pakistan has nukes.