Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once battered worldwide terror network and over the past year have set up a band of training camps in the tribal regions near the Afghan border, according to American intelligence and counterterrorism officials.

But I thought that the Pakistanis were our friends?

American officials said there was mounting evidence that Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, had been steadily building an operations hub in the mountainous Pakistani tribal area of North Waziristan. Until recently, the Bush administration had described Mr. bin Laden and Mr. Zawahri as detached from their followers and cut off from operational control of Al Qaeda.

“The chain of command has been re-established,” said one American government official, who said that the Qaeda “leadership command and control is robust.”

Geez, the six-foot bearded guy pulling the kidney dialysis machine that Bush never could find is still in the game? I'd forgotten about him!