Washington: The top US Intelligence official has said the next attack on America could come out of the al-Qaeda organised in Pakistan, saying President Pervez Musharraf needs to do more to come to terms with the terror outfits trying to "rebuild" in the country.
The Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Mike McConnell, told the Senate Armed Services Committee, "My belief is the attack most likely would be planned and come out of the leadership (al-Qaeda) in Pakistan" on being asked whether an attack on the US could come from terror outfits based in Iraq or Pakistan.
"The camps that have been established in Pakistan are in an area that has never been governed by any power, a state or outside power, in that region because it's such rugged country and fierce individual tribal interests.
"And so to the best of our knowledge the senior leadership, number one and number two, are there, and they are attempting to reestablish and rebuild and to establish training camps," McConnel said.
The top intelligence official told law makers Pakistan could do more in coming to terms with the al-Qaeda and the Taliban and the purpose of the visit of the US Vice-President Dick Cheney to Islamabad was to impress upon the fact that it has to be "more aggressive" in going after it.
"We believe they could do more. And the issue of being elected for the next term is the issue that that the president of Pakistan is wresting with," McConnell said.
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