Al-Qaeda believed to be calling followers to action in Afghanistan: genera

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (AFP) - Al-Qaeda is believed to have called its followers to action in response to the massively attended vote last month that elected President Hamid Karzai, a top US commander said.


A sign that al-Qaeda followers may be slipping back into the country was a recent discovery of a bomb-making operation in Nangarhar province by a small group of Arab fighters killed in an encounter with US forces, said Major General Eric Olson, second in command of US forces here.


"I think there now is a call out to do something to reverse the momentum that right now is going in the direction of freely elected governments," Olson said in an interview here.


He spoke to two reporters traveling with General John Abizaid, chief of the US Central Command, who arrived here Wednesday to meet with commanders and visit with troops on the US Thanksgiving holiday.

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Notice it's now al Aqaeda....never OBL, cuz he's now irrelavent. :eyes: But oh, yeah...they're going to catch him.

Oh that's right, there's a lot more of them now.