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Title: CIA Chief Says Al-Qaida At Weakest Point In Years
Source: Associated Press
URL Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic ... /06/27/national/w080147D12.DTL
Published: Jun 27, 2010
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2010-06-27 12:38:20 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 399
Comments: 5

(06-27) 08:15 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

CIA Director Leon Panetta said Sunday that al-Qaida is probably at its weakest since the Sept. 11 attacks because of U.S.-led strikes, with only 50 to 100 militants operating inside Afghanistan and the rest hiding along Pakistan's mountainous western border.

Panetta said the U.S. hasn't had good intelligence on Osama bin Laden's whereabouts for years and that the terrorist network is finding smarter ways to try to attack the United States.

Of greatest concern, he said, is al-Qaida's reliance on operatives without previous records or those living in the U.S.

"We are engaged in the most aggressive operations in the history of the CIA in that part of the world, and the result is that we are disrupting their leadership," Panetta told ABC's "This Week."

The rare assessment from the nation's spy chief comes as President Barack Obama builds up U.S. forces in Afghanistan to prop up the government and prevent al-Qaida from returning. About 98,000 U.S. troops will be in Afghanistan by fall.

Panetta initially said in the interview that the Taliban leadership was at its weakest point since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when it escaped from Afghanistan into Pakistan. He later corrected himself to say he was talking about al-Qaida.

On bin Laden, Panetta said he was hiding amid Pakistan's rough terrain with "tremendous security around him.""If we keep that pressure on, we think ultimately we can flush out bin Laden" and other al-Qaida leaders, he said.

Good intelligence on bin Laden's location "almost goes back, you know, to the early 2000s. ... Since then, it's been very difficult to get any intelligence on his exact location," Panetta said.

Panetta defended CIA drone strikes in the region, saying that claims they violate international law are "dead wrong."

"We have a duty, we have a responsibility, to defend this country so that al-Qaida never conducts that kind of attack again," he said.

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#1. To: Brian S, mcgowanjm (#0)

Panetta initially said in the interview that the Taliban leadership was at its weakest point since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when it escaped from Afghanistan into Pakistan. He later corrected himself to say he was talking about al-Qaida.

Nobody's buying this regurgitated stuff. I've been reading it for years now and I think we're on the verge of defeat.

Whatever happened to the great Marjah offensive? It fizzled.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-06-27   23:39:25 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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Nobody's buying this regurgitated stuff. I've been reading it for years now and I think we're on the verge of defeat.

Cheney's comment that we have 'defeated the taliban' comes to mind...

Brian S  posted on  2010-06-28 00:17:58 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Fred Mertz (#1)

Whatever happened to the great Marjah offensive? It fizzled.

'Fizzled' is a very accurate word.

Especially as I remember Diane Sawyer with her narciotized gravitas declaring this to be THE battle of the Afghan War.

THIS would be the turning point. And I remember her signing off-it was a Friday heading into the weekend-with 'a pray for the troops' sig.

Then nothing for days the next week. Me finding out that Marjah was NOT a town of 80 000 but a region of maybe 35 000. That the US (ALL of the following from Int'l sites) was losing MRAPS, the Entire hwy system covered with mines. Helos shot down ( of course we have no idea how they had those hard landings but they were NOT, I repeat, NOT shot down;}.

And then SILENCE. And I havew Yet to hear Diane mention this Turning Point in the War again. Like it didn't happen. Like Every US trooper KIA/WIA'd just a ghost.

Foreign Military Copter Down In Kunar: Number, Nationality, And Severity Of Injuries Kept Secret

June 25, 2010 Reuters

KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan - A foreign military helicopter was involved in a hard landing June 25 in Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan.

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