As with previous cases where I have read news stories about some "secret" document, and later read the document myself when it was declassified, I'll take this with a grain of salt. Still...

Exactly WHERE is al Qaeda resurging? From the MSNBC story you linked:

The primary development that has allowed all this to happen, U.S. officials say, was the peace agreement signed last year between the Pakistani government of President Pervez Musharraf and pro-Taliban tribal leaders in the remote region of North Waziristan.

I've been following the western Pakistan problem for months, and it has been tracked province by province, treaty by treaty, failure by failure, by Bill Roggio among others.

It is a crystal clear, textbook example of the results of giving up military action against al Qaeda and the Taliban, and relying on "negotiation," "discussions," "peace treaties," "soft power," and all the rest of those things that are utterly useless against fanatics. Recent events there

Not the message you wanted to hear, was it?

I want to point out something else:

One of the biggest talking points on the Left lately is that there IS no "worldwide al Qaeda organization." No overall terror group running things. That it's all a bunch of largely unconnected terror groups with individual goals and not being coordinated in any manner that might require a "war on terror."

That talking point is completely incompatible with the premise of that report. Just so you know.