Al-Qaida’s training camps are smaller and more mobile, harder for US drones to detect
“Under growing pressure from U.S. missile strikes, the al-Qaida terror network is relying more heavily on local insurgent groups along the Pakistan border to house training camps that are growing smaller and more mobile, according to counterterrorism officials and analysts.
The changes in the terror group’s training operations – often hidden inside walled compounds deep in Pakistan’s mountains – have made them increasingly difficult to target by U.S. intelligence forces as they have stepped up drone attacks over the past year.
While the training still includes forays into deserted hillsides to practice planting and detonating explosives, al-Qaida trainers are now also taking their instruction on the road, moving temporary training operations from compound to compound, where fellow insurgents welcome them.”
