Back in June I  wrote about the situation in Pakistan and the Taliban fractionalization we had predicted at the American Thinker last year: We predicted that some Taliban tribes would split from al Qaeda and jockey for position to align with the Pakistan government. Subsequently, inter-tribal warfare broke out and some tribal leaders did in fact side with the government. It is likely that the government-allied tribes had good intelligence into the locations of al Qaeda leadership. This was probably a main source of the intelligence for increased targeting capabilities. That intelligence led to more dead al Qaeda leaders (and allied Taliban leaders) in the last year than since the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001-2002.Today the UK Independent confirms that analysis. It reports:The British and Americans have presented the assassinations as examples of how their policy of "decapitating" the enemy leadership is working. But according to security sources, there is also...(Read Full Post)