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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAl-Qaida leadership almost wiped out in Pakistan, British officials believe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/25/al-qaida-leadership-pakistan-africaSenior British officials believe that a "last push" in 2012 is likely to definitively destroy al-Qaida's remaining senior leadership in Pakistan, opening a new phase in the battle against Islamist terrorism.
So many senior members of the organisation have been killed in an intense campaign of air strikes involving missiles launched from unmanned drones that "only a handful of the key players" remain alive, one official said.
However, well-informed sources outside government and close to Islamist groups in north Africa said at least two relatively senior al-Qaida figures have already made their way to Libya, with others intercepted en route, raising fears that north Africa could become a new "theatre of jihad" in coming months or years.
"A group of very experienced figures from north Africa left camps in Afghanistan's [north-eastern] Kunar province where they have been based for several years and travelled back across the Middle East," one source said. "Some got stopped but a few got through."
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xchrom
Dec 2011
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If true it seems to show that prez. Obama's policy of going after badguys in Pakistan is working.
limpyhobbler
Dec 2011
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limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)1. If true it seems to show that prez. Obama's policy of going after badguys in Pakistan is working.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)2. how many #2's have we killed now?
marmar
(77,056 posts)3. More than you'd find at the Papermate factories.
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customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)4. #2's?
Oh, I'd say a shitload.