US action against al Qaeda in Pakistan is necessary: Experts

Former American counter-terrorism experts feel that the US action against al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al Zawahri in Pakistan is necessary.

New York, July 25 : Former American counter-terrorism experts feel that the US action against al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al Zawahri in Pakistan is necessary.

"We have failed in Pakistan, and are failing in Iraq, to achieve a primary aim of our counter-terrorism policy: Preventing the al Qaeda from acquiring safe havens," former counter-terrorism experts Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon told New York Times.

They also said that such an operation could be handled by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as Pentagon had failed to deliver.

The Daily Times quoted them as saying, that an operation inside the tribal areas to eliminate the al Qaeda leadership would be extremely difficult "but not impossible"

They also observed that the US military has shown itself to be a poor instrument for fighting terrorism, and there are now thousands of jihadis who weren't in Iraq at the time of the 2003 invasion.

However, they maintained that "with new leadership at both the CIA and the Defence Department, the Bush Administration has a chance to fix this problem.

"The missing ingredient for success with the most important kind of counter-terrorism missions is not courage or technical capacity, but organisational culture," they added.

ANI