Al Qaeda is back in business in Afganistan/Pakistan and training for more attacks.

I don't know about the level of immediate threat faced by the British and French, but what caught me in this Blotter piece, was this.

ABC News was told by a French foreign intelligence official today that indeed Pakistan and Afghanistan are re-emerging as al Qaeda's main training ground and that there is increasing "chatter" and intelligence coming out of those areas.

The official said "dozens" of Westerners have been trained in North Waziristan and Afghanistan in the past eight months alone and that some have already returned to the West. Most of them were British citizens, said the official, but he added there were some Americans and even a few Frenchmen who, he said, are still being trained.

I haven't seen anything I would classify as "concrete" that these statements are true, but we're hearing them from more and more sources.