The Pakistan Connection

The little-noticed arrests of three men allegedly planning U.S. attacks renews questions about the country’s tolerance of terrorists. The international media barely noticed when Pakistani authorities recently picked up three foreign jihadis, including two German passport holders, in the remote town of Taftan near the Iranian border. But the arrests are being taken seriously by Western intelligence agencies.
The suspects were allegedly carrying sophisticated satellite phones and traveling through a lawless region known as a hotbed of Islamic radicalism.
the suspects may have been planning to cross into Iran on their way to Western Europe —or even the United States—to act as potential “muscle” in possible terror attacks.The remote border areas of Pakistan—not Iraq—remain the prime point of origin for terror threats to Western countries, U.S. officials say. More...