Al Qaeda Chiefs Are Seen to Regain Power, The New York Times Reports

Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once-battered worldwide terror network... American officials said there was mounting evidence that Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, had been steadily building an operations hub in the mountainous Pakistani tribal area of North Waziristan... Until recently, the Bush administration had described Mr. bin Laden and Mr. Zawahri as detached from their followers and cut off from operational control of Al Qaeda...
Read the story in full at NYTimes.com

Now I just wonder how many times this story is going to be quoted by the Dems during the next few days and weeks to come. I also question how much truth this article has to it...

I’m going to be checking into the overall facts of it... I can promise ya that.
AubreyJ........
(And what’s this Mr. bin Laden, Mr. Zawahri CRAP!!!?)

Follow-up: 7:30pm CDT
CNN.com has this story on topic today titled, “Pakistan denies al Qaeda resurgence report,” and it goes in part like this... Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States, Mahmud Durrani, said on CNN's "The Situation Room" that the reports were not true... "There may be some elements of al Qaeda," he said, "but not in the force that has been presented." Durrani also said it is "totally and utterly incorrect" that elements of the Pakistani military are sympathetic to al Qaeda. He also denied that bin Laden and others are hiding in Pakistan...
Read their story at CNN.com

FOXNews.com reports... Usama bin Laden and his No. 2 man, Ayman al Zawahiri, are rebuilding the Al Qaeda terror group along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, but the bases are smaller and lieutenants are less experienced... The American official was confirming a story reported in Monday's New York Times that said a band of training camps has popped up in Pakistan along the Afghan border and the leadership chain of command has been re-established despite an "erosion" of leadership after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. "Old hands have been picked off and the new people are less capable and less seasoned," the official said. But "no one suggests Al Qaeda no longer has a command structure or a haven ... though [we] wouldn't call it a safe haven."
Read their report in full at link below...
Al Qaeda Rebuilds Along Afghanistan Border