Head of Pakistan Taliban Ordered Attacks in Barcelona

The recent bust of a terrorist cell in Spain apparently reported to Pakistan...

The Spanish daily El Pais on Sunday reported that European intelligence services now believe that Baitullah Mehsud, the head of the Pakistani Taliban, whom the CIA believe ordered the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, also orchestrated a plot last month to attack Barcelona and other European cities.

If Musharraf can't/won't stop the terrorists hiding out in Pakistan's backyard then maybe NATO should step in.

In recent years Mehsud, who dominates much of South Waziristan, has allowed Al Qaeda to establish small training camps for jihadists in area under his control. In an article just published in the Guardian, I explain just how important such camps are to Al Qaeda's efforts to launch operations in the West. Although the organization has thousands of supporters in European countries, the hands-on training and indoctrination that it can provide in its small camps in western Pakistan, is crucial to its attempts to turn the merely radicalized into capable terrorist operatives.