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"The real plan is not the elimination of any individual, rather it is to root out al-Qaeda's headquarters, situated at the crossroads of the South Waziristan and North Waziristan [tribal areas in Pakistan], which is causing massive instability in the whole region of Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Iraq," an Islamabad-based senior Pakistani security official told Asia Times Online on the condition of anonymity. The officer showed ATol highly secret documents which reveal how al-Qaeda-linked groups have been involved in several high-profile robberies, assassinations and other activities in a network that has been broadened from North Waziristan all the way to Mumbai in India, where a massive attack was launched on that city last year by 10 Pakistani-linked militants. More than 150 people were killed. Pakistan is not believed to have given the US specific information on Baitullah, who has a $5 million bounty on his head, but they have shared detailed maps of the region where the drone attack took place in South Waziristan last week. . - Syed Saleem Shahzad Pakistan, US look across the border

Noordin Mohammad Top, the prolific and ingenious terror bomber, remains at large in Indonesia after a weekend raid in which he was initially said to have been killed. Top's ability to move with impunity and acquire recruits suggests that grassroots support for his radical cause runs deep. Every moment he remains on the loose reinforces that suspicion. - Patrick Guntensperger The hunt goes on for terror mastermind

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