'Terror Made in Pakistan'

This Foreign Policy Magazine's AfPak Channel story leads with a New America Foundation policy paper that 'outlines how the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region emerged as al-Qaeda’s central operational hub for plotting attacks in the West after 9/11 through the eyewitness accounts of Western militants who allegedly received terrorist training in the region.'

Says the executive summary of the paper:

"In a majority of the serious terrorist plots against the homelands of Western countries since 2004, plotters were either directed or trained by established jihadist groups in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region, demonstrating the sustained threat to the West posed by the terrorist safe haven. In 38 percent of the serious terrorist plots in the West during this period, al-Qaeda or an allied group in Pakistan provided operational direction to plotters."

Policy recommendations? "High priority and more resources should be given to reducing their safe haven in Pakistan." The Militant Pipeline | NewAmerica.net.