04 January 2010

Al Qaeda weakened? Or wishful thinking?

The DNI is sounding off about AQ's diminished capacity and being criticized for that statement not seeming to match reality.

Blair, a retired four-star admiral who has been under fire following intelligence lapses that led to the attempted Christmas Day sky bombing, had written in a letter to the employees of the U.S. intelligence community: "The Intelligence Community should be proud of its role in weakening al Qa'ida’s ability to plan, organize, finance, and carry out highly orchestrated attacks conducted by well trained teams, like those on 9/11. Al Qa’ida is diminished as evidenced by the fact they are sending inexperienced individuals without long association with al Qa’ida, but susceptible to jihadist ideology. Unfortunately, even unsophisticated terrorists can kill many Americans."


What do you think?



By: Brant

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