Pak-based al Qaeda leadership continues to target US: Report

Washington: Despite the fact that Pakistan-based al-Qaeda’s senior leadership has been depleted, the group continues to plot terror attack against US and its allies, a new Obama Administration report has said.
“Although the global affiliates and allies of al-Qaeda also threaten the US Homeland and interests, Pakistan and Afghanistan continue to be the operational base for the group that attacked us on 9/11,” US President Barack Obama said in the third-quarterly report to the Congress on Afghanistan and Pakistan sent yesterday.
An unclassified portion of the report was provided to the Press Trust of India.
The 2010 Afghanistan-Pakistan Annual Review includes an evaluation of the progress made during the period of this report, which marked the full deployment of the US troop “surge” to Afghanistan that he announced in December 2009, Obama said in a letter to the Congressional leaders.