Major Developments In Pakistan Tribal Area -- Strata-SphereI have been of the opinion that the US allowed Pakistan President and US ally Musharraf to step down only after Pakistan agreed to some new conditions in the war on terror and the fact al-Qaeda was regrouping in their last large sanctuary on Earth. That sanctuary exists primarily in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) the run along the Afghan border and are the home of al-Qaeda and the Taliban remnants from Afghanistan.
As they have been chased from Afghanistan and Iraq over the past years since 9-11, al-Qaeda and the Taliban were gathering their forces in this area and attempting a come back by destabilizing both democracies in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Since Musharraf has stepped down missile attacks from US/NATO forces in the region on targets on FATA have increased (see here for the latest), and the Pakistan Army has been moving in and cleansing the Islamo Fascist cancer from FATA and the Swat Valley region of the North West Frontier Province, also a hot bed of Islamic extremism.
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