US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said that al Qaeda is the primary enemy of the United States in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region and Taliban factions supportive of al Qaeda are also a target, US media reported on Thursday. “The Taliban is a very broad group. Our primary enemy in that part of the world is al Qaeda. The Taliban elements, the terrorist elements that support al Qaeda, are also our enemy,” Panetta said at a congressional hearing.
‘Al Qaeda is US’ enemy No 1, not Taliban’
