U.S. weighs new covert push in Pakistan: report
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Senior U.S. officials, concerned over intelligence reports that al Qaeda and the Taliban are more intent on destabilizing Pakistan, are considering expanding the authority of the CIA and the military to conduct far more aggressive covert operations there, the New York Times said on Sunday.
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The Bush administration said on  Wednesday it would insist on a tougher approach to fighting al  Qaeda in Pakistan, acknowledging that a strategy pushed by  President Pervez Musharraf had not worked.
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The State Department said on Tuesday it had information that "terrorists may be planning to launch new attacks" in Uzbekistan around the time of Uzbek Independence Day celebrations in early September.
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The top two U.S. intelligence officials made a secret visit to Pakistan in early January to seek permission from President Pervez Musharraf for greater involvement of American forces in trying to ferret out al-Qaida and other militant groups active in the tribal regions along the Afghanistan border, a senior U.S. official said.
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The Bush administration is willing to send a small number of U.S. combat troops to Pakistan to help fight the insurgency there if Pakistani authorities ask for such help, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday
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WASHINGTON, July 22 â One of President Bushâs counterterrorism advisers said today that the United States would consider using military force inside Pakistan if it identified key Al Qaeda targets there, but the Pakistani foreign minister angrily rejected such talk as âirresponsibleâ and said American attacks in the sensitive border area could cause civilian deaths and enrage Pakistani opinion.
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Al-Qaeda is intensifying its efforts to put operatives into the US, a US intelligence report says.
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US, Pakistan step up efforts to address the militant haven tied to global terror.
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With new fighting expected to break out next spring in Afghanistan, the Pakistani government will soon have to decide what it can do about the tribal authorities who have not been living up to their agreement to prevent Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters from moving back and forth across the border, according to Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte....
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Pakistan rejected on Saturday a U.S. official's assertion that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar are operating from Pakistani territory.
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Al-Qaeda is believed to have established compounds inside Pakistan to train small groups of operatives for possible attacks in the West, a US official said.
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The United States and other NATO members should adopt "more security measures" in the hunt for Al-Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan, Al-Hayat newspaper quoted the Pakistani Interior Minister as saying.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The United States and its allies have moved closer to capturing Osama bin Laden in the last two months, a top U.S. counterterrorism official said in a television interview broadcast...
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Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf this month rebuffed U.S. proposals to let the CIA have greater latitude to operate in tribal areas where al Qaeda, the Taliban and other militant groups are active, The New York Times said in Sunday editions.
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Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammad Omar and their top commanders are hiding in Pakistan, posing a "huge challenge" to the security of the country and neighboring Afghanistan, a senior US administration official said Friday.
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The Bush administration isn't satisfied with the quality of information it's getting about terrorist groups operating in Pakistan's volatile tribal area, a senior U.S. official said Tuesday.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Are there secret CIA bases in Pakistan to hunt for Osama bin Laden? Pakistan says no. It is denying a New York Times report, which says the spy agency has concluded bin Laden is being sheltered