Thursday, March 18, 2010

CIA Chief: 'Disrupted' Al Qaeda Is 'On the Run'

Short of hearing about Osama Bin Laden or any of his lovers known as Al Qaida , being killed ,
The next best thing is hearing that they are in complete disarray !
One after another the top leadership has been arrested or killed in recent months , and it has left Al Qaida scrambling for people to take their place , which leads to infighting , and gives us the pleasure of knowing that these rejects are all messed up !


Foxnews
CIA Director Leon Panetta said Wednesday an aggressive campaign has driven Usama bin Laden and other leaders deeper into hiding and left Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan's tribal regions in disarray.

"Those operations are seriously disrupting Al Qaeda," Panetta told The Washington Post in an interview. "It's pretty clear from all the intelligence we are getting that they are having a very difficult time putting together any kind of command and control, that they are scrambling. And that we really do have them on the run."

Drone strikes in Pakistan's border region, largely conducted by the CIA, have escalated in recent months, proving an effective way to target Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders hiding in the rugged mountainous border. While Pakistani officials have criticized the strikes, it is widely believed that Islamabad privately supports the attacks and works with the U.S. to provide intelligence.

The remarks came as an Al Qaeda leader believed to have played a key role in the bombing of a CIA post in Afghanistan last December was apparently killed by an American missile strike last week, a senior U.S. official said.

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