Al Qaida stronger than last year, according to government's top analyst

Shouldn't this be the top story everywhere today?

Al Qaeda’s success in forging close ties to Pakistani militant groups has given it an increasingly secure haven in the mountainous tribal areas of Pakistan, the American government’s senior terrorism analyst said Tuesday.

Al Qaeda is more capable of attacking inside the United States than it was last year, and its cadre of senior leaders has recruited and trained “dozens” of militants capable of blending into Western society to carry out attacks, the analyst said.

Shouldn't the fact that the government's top analyst is saying we're failing against Al Qaeda get more coverage than page 12?

(But Georgia! We should be talking about Georgia, because it was Russian separatists who flew planes into US landmarks, are reportedly seeking biological/nuclear weapons, are "more capable of attacking inside the United States than it was last year....")

Also in the region, (Reuters) Another (likely US) missile strike in S. Waziristan, 9 killed.

(NYTimes) "The Taliban response was immediate and costly. A minibus carrying 18 members of the Pakistani Air Force was destroyed by a bomb on a major road in Peshawar on Tuesday morning, killing at least 13 people. The Taliban said the attack was in retaliation for the airstrikes on Monday."