| A top U.S. commander says he doubts claims a videotape purporting to show terrorist training was made in Afghanistan, the Pakistan News Tribune said Sunday. Lt Gen. David Barno heads U.S. forces in Afghanistan. During a satellite link-up from Kabul he told reporters he is skeptical the videotape of alleged al-Qaida training shown by al-Jazeera TV was actually made in a remote, mountainous area of Afghanistan as the film claims. "It is fairly unlikely that that tape was made in Afghanistan," the News Tribune quoted him as saying Saturday. Barno said the significant U.S. military presence in the rugged border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan and the "most robust" assault by Pakistani troops on suspected al-Qaida linked militants kept terrorist or remnants of the Taliban Islamic militant movement in the area on the defensive. "I think al-Qaida and its network is under tremendous pressure here," he said, and is no longer able to mount attacks on coalition or Afghan forces. |