New Terror Camp?

[varun]

This is our Key Ally?
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In a potential embarrassment for a key U.S. ally, an alleged Al Qaeda supporter claims that the group has built a major training facility inside Pakistan—and that recruits are being taught how to kill Americans.

By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
Newsweek

Updated: 6:26 p.m. ET June 8, 2005June 8 - An FBI investigation into a suspected Islamic jihad group in California has produced sensitive new evidence that Al Qaeda may have reconstituted a major terrorist training camp inside Pakistan after the 9/11 attacks—a subject that the U.S. government has been reluctant to publicly talk about.

The assertion that Al Qaeda—which President Bush recently claimed is “on the run”—was still capable of operating a significant training facility inside Pakistan is contained in an FBI affidavit released Tuesday night in connection with the arrests of Hamid Hayat, 24, a U.S. citizen, and his father, Umer Hayat, 47, an ice-cream truck driver, in Lodi, Calif., south of Sacramento. The two men are accused of lying to the FBI about a two-year sojourn that Hamid Hayat made to Pakistan between April 2003 and this year....

[funflower]

1. Like, d'oh....

Fundamentalist Moslems. Autocratic government w/ little real control over its people. Ex-best-friends w/ the Taliban. And, great, they've got nukes.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Ah yes the old saying

with those friends, who needs ememies (ISI crack anti terror squakd, a wink and a nod from the head honcho, if you get my drift)

[DRoseDARs]

3. I'm trying to trace that quote...

"So with friends like these, who needs enemies?" -- Old Jewish proverb

...is all I can find. Anyone got a better explaination of its origin if that ain't it? Incidently, the same site said "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." was an Arab proverb. Any truth to that? Just curious about these quotes. :)

[paulthompson]

4. Here's the link to the whole article

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8147895/site/newsweek/