Al-Qaeda could lose ‘operational capabilities’ within 2 years, U.S. official says

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Source: The Washington Post

The nation’s top intelligence officials said Tuesday that al-Qaeda’s affiliates have eclipsed the terrorist network’s core as national security threats and that, within two years, continued pressure could render al-Qaeda remnants in Pakistan incapable of carrying out attacks.

Michael G. Vickers, the undersecretary of defense for intelligence, said at a defense conference that if the current pace of U.S. operations continues, “within 18 to 24 months, core al-Qaeda’s cohesion and operational capabilities could be degraded to the point that the group could fragment.”

Vickers’s remark represents the first time that a senior U.S. official has offered a time frame for achieving the collapse of the organization responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. His comments were consistent with assessments delivered to Congress on Tuesday by the nation’s top two intelligence officials.

In his first public testimony as CIA director, David H. Petraeus said that the killing of Osama bin Laden and subsequent operations have opened “an important window of vulnerability for the core al-Qaeda organization in Pakistan and Afghanistan.”

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/al-qaeda-could-lose-operational-capabilities-within-2-years-us-official-says/2011/09/13/gIQAzwXgQK_story.html

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1. weve been screwed out of a trillion dollars by our government & it will take 2 more years?????? nt

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3. Yep

because you know - they know that no one who has had lost a family member at the hands of the US over the past decade wont
carry out a revenge attack.


Um. Do they even think we listen to this shit ?

[Javaman]

6. And after 2 more years, they will "reassess" the situation and conclude...

that it will take 2 more additional years. And after those 2 years pass, they will "reassess" the situation and conclude that it will take 2 more additional years.And after those 2 years pass, they will "reassess" the situation and conclude that it will take 2 more additional years.And after those 2 years pass, they will "reassess" the situation and conclude that it will take 2 more additional years.And after those 2 years pass, they will "reassess" the situation and conclude that it will take 2 more additional years.And after those 2 years pass, they will "reassess" the situation and conclude that it will take 2 more additional years.And after those 2 years pass, they will "reassess" the situation and conclude that it will take 2 more additional years.And after those 2 years pass, they will "reassess" the situation and conclude that it will take 2 more additional years.And after those 2 years pass, they will "reassess" the situation and conclude that it will take 2 more additional years.

[webDude]

2. What, no Boogeyman? The empire will crumble! If you believe this, I got...

...some swampland in Arizona that I want to sell ya!

[RandySF]

4. Unless a Republican is elected president.

And starts fucking everything up again like Bush.

[MADem]

5. Good. NT

[EFerrari]

7. Late last night I saw a report that the feds think Ayman Al Zahwari

is in Yemen or Somalia. It sounds like there's a vigorous hunt on for him.

[buckrogers1965]

8. Don't they always say "2 more years?"

And 2 years from now, it will still be, "Two more years."

There is no such group as "al Qaeda." What our government calls al Qaeda are individuals or small independent groups that spontaneously form, they build a bomb or get a gun and kill a few people and then quit on their own.

The more we bomb civilians, the more spontaneous attacks there will be.

Imagine if the Chinese invaded the United States.

How long would Americans fight the Chinese? It would be 100 years or more.

Would we need to be organized in large easy to attack groups? No, we would act independent of any organization, acting alone or in small groups.