U.S. Officials: Al-Qaida Leadership Cadre 'Decimated' : NPR
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CIA-directed airstrikes against al-Qaida leaders and facilities in Pakistan over the past six to nine months have been so successful, according to senior U.S. officials, that it is now possible to foresee a "complete al-Qaida defeat" in the mountainous region along the border with Afghanistan.
The officials say the terrorist network's leadership cadre has been "decimated," with up to a dozen senior and midlevel operatives killed as a result of the strikes and the remaining leaders reeling from the repeated attacks.
"The enemy is really, really struggling," says one senior U.S. counterterrorism official. "These attacks have produced the broadest, deepest and most rapid reduction in al-Qaida senior leadership that we've seen in several years."
Another senior U.S. official described "a significant, significant degradation of al-Qaida command and control in recent months."
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Thank you President Bush for your aggressive stance against terrorists.
Now a prediction; Obama will get "lucky" and either UBL will be captured or killed on his watch - not due to ANY effort or policy that obama actually put in place. No, Bush is the one who will make this possible due to his neverending battle with this group, by the policies, tactics and strategies he put in place - all to fall in the lap of that incompetent boob, obama.
The media and the Left will try to give obama the credit, even though he was little more than a beneficiary to bush's policies.
Remember this prediction.
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