Taliban, al-Qaida regrouping Posted by Scott Manning on March 02, 2002 | Comments (0)

Pentagon officials said on Friday that the U.S. military is gathering information on groups of hundreds of suspected al-Qaida and Taliban fighters who are regrouping in eastern Afghanistan. Senior U.S. Defense officials told reporters that no action had been taken yet, but left clear that it could be a focus of upcoming operations in Paktia Province in the mountainous area near Pakistan.

"We are seeing pockets of al-Qaida and pockets of Taliban” around Paktia’s capital of Gardez, said Air Force Lt. Gen. John Rosa, a senior operations officer on the U.S. military’s Joint Staff.Full Story...