Al Qaeda May Use FATA for Recovery of Loses in 2008: US

Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas where it has found safe haven due to sustained loses the terror outfit has suffered since 2008.

A US intelligence report prepared for Congress shows how a concerted military effort to uproot al Qaeda from FATA has weakened the group, the US blames for the September 11 terrorist attacks.

“In Pakistan’s tribal areas, al Qaeda lost significant parts of its command structure since 2008 in a succession of blows as damaging to the group as any since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001,”