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Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta (right) exchanges greetings with Saudi Defense Minister Crown Prince Salman bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud.
Nearly one year ago, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta predicted the strategic defeat of al-Qaida was within reach if the United States could kill or capture up to 20 leaders of the core group and its affiliates.
In an interview with Reuters, Panetta disclosed that only a "small handful" of the individuals on that original list remained on the battlefield and that Saudi Arabia -- the birthplace of late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden -- was reporting a drop-off in recruitment.
"We've not only impacted on their leadership, we've impacted on their capability to provide any kind of command and control in terms of operations," Panetta said Thursday.
The White House has confirmed the death of al-Qaida leader Abu Yahya al-Libi in a weekend drone strike in Pakistan. NBC's Jim Miklaszewski reports.
The U.S. defense chief visited Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and, after paying U.S. condolences over the death of the late crown prince, spoke about al-Qaida with one of his sons, Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who has run the kingdom's operations against the terror network as a deputy interior minister.
"I asked him the question, ‘As a result of the bin Laden raid, as a result of what we've done to their leadership, where are we with al-Qaida?’" Panetta recounted, adding that al-Qaida and bin Laden "came out of Saudi Arabia."
"Bin Nayef said, ‘For the first time, what I'm seeing is that young people are no longer attracted to al-Qaida in Saudi Arabia,'" he said.
Panetta did not single out which leaders from his target list last year remained, but current al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri is one he named last year. He is still believed to be living in the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Al-Qaida's leader Ayman al-Zawahri in a still image from a web posting by al-Qaida's media arm, as-Sahab, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012.
Asked how many targets remained, Panetta said, "It's a small handful and it's growing smaller all the time."
Panetta to Pakistan: 'Time to move on'
On other topics, Panetta in the interview:
- Defended the U.S. decision not to arm opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but said he was concerned that shoulder-fired missiles stolen from Libya last year could make their way to Syria. He said he had seen no direct intelligence yet suggesting they had.
- All but ruled out an apology over an air strike last year that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, as Islamabad has demanded, saying it was "time to move on" in the troubled U.S.-Pakistan relationship.
- Said Iraq had given assurances to the United States that it would not release a suspected Hezbollah operative accused of killing American troops, whom the United States turned over to Iraqi custody last December just before the last U.S. troops exited the country.
Drones, computers new weapons of US shadow wars
After addressing questions about the future of al-Qaida's top leadership, Panetta shifted his focus to the group's ability to survive as a movement at all.
"We'll keep the pressure on at the top and we'll keep going after their leadership," Panetta said.
"But the real issue that will determine the end of al-Qaida is when they find it difficult to recruit any new people,” he added.
The killing of bin Laden in a covert U.S. raid in Pakistan last year has been followed by a series of unmanned aerial attacks that have crushed al-Qaida's network along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.
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The latest high-profile al-Qaida leader killed in the U.S. campaign was Abu Yahya al-Libi, the group's second-in-command, who broke out of a high-security U.S. prison in neighboring Afghanistan in 2005 and was a key strategist.
Beyond the Afghan-Pakistan region, another key figure killed last year was Anwar al-Awlaki, an American imam who became a senior leader of al-Qaida's Yemen-based affiliate.
While successful tactically, the drone strikes have further poisoned U.S.-Pakistan relations and, critics say, raise questions about international law and could boost militant recruiting.
Only about eight hard-core al-Qaida leaders are still believed to be based in the lawless borderlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan, compared with dozens a few years ago.
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Secr.of Defense Leon Panetta, Dir.FBI Robert Mueller,Dep.Dir.CIA Mike Morrell, WH/Counterterror Chief John Brennan and former CIA Dir.George Tenet were in Saudi Arabia to offer their condolences to King Abdullah on the death of Crown Prince Nayef. On behalf of Obama only. If AQ's leadership and encruitment is really ebbing as asserted by Panetta- how come that a Saudi terrorist/suicide taper was killed at Israeli border when he and an Egyptian killed a bordere fence worker and injured others? What about the Muhajeedin of Sura for Al Quds- affiliated with AQ? Al Shabaab? No Libyan arsenal in Gaza? No European double citizens waging jihad in Afgh/Pak ?
Where does this article say that Alqueda has been eliminated and terrorism is dead? That is a feeble post. Terrorism will never stop as long as there are idiots who believe they can change the course of history by being a terrorist. You can keep the lid on a bit but you will never eliminate it all together. The United States was started by terroist if you were talking to the English and So was Israel. Somtimes it all depends on what side you are on how terrorism is defined. THe AlQueda run would have not gained steam as fast as it had in the past if this Administration had not killed most of its leadership because it would have been more difficult to gain recruits because of the revolutions going on in Arab countries.
First: thank you mr. president and all your staff. All this in less then four years. But no worries, no matter how effective this president is, the right wing will still complain and demonize him. Second: If you really want to learn something about the history of terrorism, read "brothers in blood" by Ovid Damaris. like most people you have been lied to.
George....Take off the rose colored glasses...If you really think potus has done such a fine job, then take a trip to middle east and walk around and see how free everybody is, take a walk out into the food bazaars in iraq, afghanistan, egypt, libya, etc....then report back here on what a fine job your pres. has done...your an idiot
Coyotehunter, '..take a trip to middle east and walk around and see how free everybody is..". I think it is time for you to take off those rose colored glasses.
U.S. President Barack Obama also said last week that the Al-Qaeda was “on a path to defeat,” but Seth Jones, a former U.S. Special Operations Command senior adviser, says the evidence he has collected points to the contrary.
“Al-Qaeda has adopted a selective engagement strategy, and governments collapse in countries where Al-Qaeda has a support base…..
“The biggest variable is the weakness of multiple governments coming from Arab Spring,” he said. “Al-Qaeda activities, the number of attacks now, has actually increased, even around the time of [the killing of] bin Laden.”
He added that Osama bin Laden’s death had “a little bit” of an impact on Al-Qaeda, mainly in the core element in Pakistan. He noted however, that, “at the same time, and this is part of a conscious decision by Al-Qaeda, is they have established what you might call a mergers and acquisitions strategy, where they have reached out and cut deals with a range of affiliated groups.”These groups, Jones said, include Al-Qaeda in Iraq, al Shabaab in Somaila, as well as Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula based out of Yemen and Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb.He said these groups “clearly, especially with the Yemen group, have continued to plot attacks against the U.S. homeland and its interests, including U.S. embassies in Africa. If you take the formal affiliates and the less formal allies, what Al-Qaeda’s done is become a little more decentralized. The central part in Pakistan after bin Laden’s death is less important than it was.”
Al-Qaeda is regenerating. And we have got to focus our intelligence and special operations and FBI presence on probably about eight or nine countries, to work with their governments, including Afghanistan and Pakistan. We cannot leave in 2014 based on the trends right now in this area.”
"only a small handful left"
Yeah, right. This assessment coming from the same @!$%#s that told us that if Bush killed them we would just be creating more terrorists. So which rhetoric and propaganda are we supposed to believe from these morons?!
A handful equals eight (8)? More underestimation, side stepping and deceit from this administration. You can bet AQ will continue as we continue to occupy the world and continue our unconstitutional wars.
Let's see now - A pro-Obama article just before the election by msnbc - Obama's media arm.
Predictable. Of course, no mention of any credit for Bush who put the intelligence and drone programs in place.
That's one "small handful" too much.
While Bush might have laid the groundwork for Obama's current success against AQ, I sure prefer this drone war over deploying combat brigades. Take the snake's head off, don't just stomp around in the grass trying to smash the whole animal.
Breadex, theres a difference between freedom fighters and terrorists. The United States was started by Revolutionary freedom fighters, fighting against tyranny from far away England. A terrorist is distinctly different, its not just a different connotation. A terrorist organization does not restrain itself to targeting security forces, it purposely targets civilians in order to cause TERROR.
On the topic at hand, glad to see that Al-Queda is being weakened, and hopefully in another year or two we can close this chapter. However I doubt it will be that cut and dry
"Bin Nayef said, ‘For the first time, what I'm seeing is that young people are no longer attracted to al-Qaida in Saudi Arabia,'" he said."
Bin Nayef was one the most hardliner and bigoted Wahhabi.
He was responsible for a good amount of mess in most non-Muslim nations inlcuding oil price manipulations and the resultant economic mess.
If Panetta trusts him so much then one can only conclude that his make believe world has been shaped by the most bigoted, autocratic, despotic, highly corrupt and ungrateful Sunni Saudi rulers.
Realities in Africa, especially Nigeria and other places contradict Panetta!
In an interview with Reuters, Panetta disclosed that only a "small handful" of the individuals on that original list remained on the battlefield and that Saudi Arabia --................But you can bet your a$$ there are millions of grunts to keep up the terrorist activities. So what that there are only a "small handful" of leaders.
The world, unfortunately, will never run out of these A-holes.
so afraid
Right in Kabul, after 11 years NATO operations with the help of "trusted" Pakis, Paki Haqqani network, Taliban and other militants are attacking more daringly.
If Panetta is going after al-Qaida much, al-Qaida will vanish and some other Sunni Saudi invented Islamic militant faction will crop up with new labels.
Can Panetta at least tell us after 11 years of experience in Afghanistan and more (since 1991 to last December) in Iraq: how Taliban factions are there at least in Afghanistan?
A while ago they (AQ) were expanding their influence over a larger territory in pakistan. Their list is growing smaller on Lts. that have any experience to be the Gen. Not so many people are willing to sit down to dine with alla. (Don't know you all got this virgin crap from) If not so many are enlisting in AQ lately, Why are they expanding in Pakistan, territory wise? The kill ratio would be more killed than signing up. (we're winning?!?!) Somethings not jiving to me here.
Panetta is a giggling Moron.
Come back when you can contribute something other than kindergartner rhetoric and my apologies to all kindergartners.
Morons are tolerable.
But idiots, who don't learn from the past, are worse.
Saudis certify and Panetta starts lecturing and dancing!
He is proving to be a good match for Hillary.
Well the suspects keep dying, not bad eh? The POTUS keeps his back to the wind and looks into the mountains with our finely tuned drones and slams them one by one into the necks of these cowards who hide in Mosques, behind children and pose as wonderful human beings.
Keep up killing these monsters.
Obama/Biden 2012
Panetta is spreading the myth again. There is no King Roach. When killing roaches you have to spray the whole area. Perhaps when the mullahs are targeted who spread their vile philosophy, there will be some impact. Killing the leaders also cuts off sources of intelligence we'd have if they were captured.
Gotta love the fact that this president and his lemmings, who earlier wanted to prosecute Bush and Cheney, close Gitmo, end the Patriot Act, and eliminate rendition and water boarding, are the same ones who now celebrate high-altitude assassinations. Priceless!
nobody ever complained that bush killed terrorists. We complained that his targets where anything but terrorists. Like the children of Iraq. Obama accomplished all this without water boarding. Amazing. He actually let the FBI do it's job, priceless. in 7 years bush could not find bin laden with water boarding, only took Obama less then three years using true intel, priceless. If there is a god do yourself a favor, when judgement day comes, dont stand too close to bush and cheney. And for God's sake, don't stand near me either lol. I hate loud noises lol
George...who complained about anybody killing terrorists? but if you think "the skunk" did this with clean hands..Ha! your dumber than your post. Do you actually believe that "the skunk" got obl all by himself? And i would stand next to Bush/Cheney...especially Cheny, its safer next to him than 40 yads. away, he might mistake me for a quail!...don't forget to vote in november.
George, You must not have read all of the news reports immediately after bin ladens assassination. Bin laden was found by tracking and identifying his main courier. That courier was found under the bush watch.
Spin all you want, but at that time even obama acknowledged that the previous administration played a part in locating bin laden. Talk about trying to rewrite history...
For every "top target" taken down, there are 10 waiting in line to take their place. I don't believe for a moment that the "Top" will ever be taken out.
The War on Terror will never end. The best we can we can do is keep them on the run.
Janine, well stated and absolutely true! Taking out these top leaders one at a time will never ever cut the head off the muslim snake! There are very few things that can be done with these lazy, dirty, muslim terrorists, but there is one that should be begun now. Every time there is a suicide terrorist bomber his entire family should be imprisoned for life,thier home demolished and all possesions taken away. Thanks to the nature of suicide explosives and DNA identification is quite easy. If these foolish, corrupted, muslim martyrs knew that they would destroy thier entire family by thier "Heroic" act of defiance the ranks of the suicide volunteers whould shrink to nothing immediately. Now, the families of the 'brave suicide bombers' given rewards, honored by relatives and neighbors. Take all that away and watch how many 'brave' suicide bombers volunteer. If they knew they were sentencing thier entire family ( and maybe it should include extended family) to life in prison I doubt we would see many more of these. Additionally for every suicide bomber since we know they were recruited and radicalized in the mosque, we take that iman and sentence him to the same thing.
Jack-1006819 -
Responding to terrorists by becoming terrorists is going to create far larger problems than the ones we already face. Much of the world would turn against us for committing such barbaric acts as the ones you suggest. Fortunately, the US would never stoop to that level. We're not at war with Islam, we are at war with terror.
bmack, sorry, but you obviously missed the point. Taking action again the parents,and family of a terrorist killer is no different than the capture and prosecution of the get away car driver in a robbery. Even though that person didn't rob, and kill, he is equally guilty. The entire point of this is that we must take away the insane, illogical idea that blowing up innocent women and children and non believers is a wonderful martyrdom that will lead to everlasting happiness in muslim heaven. And that idiotic idea of being a martyr is what encourages these foolish,brain washed youths who have been seduced by the muslim imans in the mosques. To be a wanton killer with targets of innocents is not any kind of definition of martyrdom. If these weak, illiterate, foolish youths understood that blowing up innocent people would sentence thier families to prison, of course that takes away the perceived honor and bravery of what they had planned to do. No, it is not barbaric, it is only logical and correct. and yes, it would stop the hideous culture of the muslims killing innocents on a daily basis.
While it would be nice to believe what the so-called officials are reporting to the news it is always slanted for future use to obtain other things—never will they tell the public the truth. Pakistan may be our ally on paper but that where the buck stops—without the money flowing from the US and other countries into Pakistan they would cease as a country, same for Afghanistan and many other countries that expect/demand US and others monies to survive and carry-on their own political agenda..
Technically he did say; from the "original list" , he's not talking about the other 100 mile long list.
lol....very, very good observation.
Always watch very carefully what a politician says, and doesn't say, and then watch their actions even closer.
Some of them have "ethics", they hesitate to lie, but see no problem with fudging the truth.
ONLY A SMALL HANDFUL LEFT, Thank you President Obama.!!!
LOL royalstar, terrorism has survived for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Only the names have changed. There will never be "just a few left".
american, read the story. They are talking about al Qaita. Not terrorists all over the globe.
Thank you President Obama for fighting the War on Terror just like President Bush.
USA...killing and maiming around the globe.
Great. We've killed most of the big cockroaches in the kitchen. If you've ever had an infestation, you know what happens next. The dimwitted believe that if you cut off the head, the body will die, but this mechanism doesn't work that way. When you dig below the water table, water flows into the hole, seeking its level. You can scoop water out until you are exhausted, but new water will keep flowing in, maybe even faster than you can scoop it out again.
We need to find a solution that will work going forward, and I wish I had suggestions. It's a sure bet that the present strategy and tactic will only bring temporary relief, and encourage the terrorists to become even more clever and secretive in their operations. We need to find an avenue to total peace (preferred), or total war (last ditch) - anything else will just prolong this drawn-out agony of wasted lives and expense.
In the movie "Independence Day", a captured alien was asked about peace.
"Peace?" it replied, "There can be no peace."
The American president then asked the alien: "What do you want us to do?"
"Die." the alien replied.
I'm afraid that's the mindset we're up against here. I wish us luck.
Caution: Al-Qaidas' LEADERS are not the maniacs flying planes into buildings, committing suicide bombings, placing IEDs' , rigging car bombs, attacking Embassies, et al cowardly acts. They are not even the ones TRAINING the brainless radical idiots to "become martyrs". I don't fear the "Leaders"......it is the followers we need to be aware of and PREPARED for. Those are the threats that can easily SLIP ACROSS OUR ENTIRE BORDER WITH another "ally", MEXICO.
So good to hear, Mr. Panetta. When you've killed (with extreme prejudice) the last one of these useless ragheads over there, please bring all of my US tax dollars home with you! I'm fed up seeing another nickel of my money wasted in this hopeless cesspool of the planet!
Whoops...If this is such a hopeless cesspool of a planet...why would you want your nickel back? maybe you could use it to go to another planet.
Never would have believed it, since Vietnam truism has been that big guy with the big weapons can't win against guerilla-type tactics where the little guys hit, then run and blend back into the population. Of course we don't have a complete victory at this time, but I think the repubs who can't find a way to give their Commander in Chief any acknowledgement of anything positive, and the hard-core liberals who will never acknowledge that a military strategy actually worked need to wake up and start being a little more objective.
I was strongly against our second involvement in Iraq, strongly questioned our motives in Afghanistan as being just to get Bin Laden and am uncomfortable with the idea that part of our strategy is to go in and essentially assassinate key people in countries outside our borders, but I think that in the end, only the most stubborn can continue to say it hasn't worked. Very, very expensive, but it looks to me like we have come very close to doing something that many countries and multiple wars over many years have/has not been able to do-- break the back of a philosophy/constituency in the region that will eventually allow for real change and stability.
I am not saying whether it was right or wrong, but am beginning to think that our drones, our intelligence, our sophisticated, surgical technology and persistence may actually succeed at something that has failed for centuries, and it could put us in a position that will be very advantageous economically and globally. Only time will tell whether it was worth the cost.
Unfortunately the list grows almost as fast as they are killed off. Keep up the good work. A snake with no head is only meat.
I rather see the news headline read " only a few muslims left " I'd feel much safer ! I feel it would be a better safer world !
Ain't that a little primitive, sam?
not at all Happy ! seems Muslims cant control there teaching of hate ! it's time to turn the tables on them !
Whatever country is NOT a puppet of the International Bankers is their next target! These countries are always branded as, "rogue" or "terrorist" regimes.
Where ever freedom, individualism, or isolationism are that is the next target of the world police!
I'd trust Penetta about as far as I would Holder and Obama for that matter. Panetta is gay, holder is a liar and Obama is Muslim.
It only takes one "top al quaeda target" to Plot a dirty bomb attack or mass suicide attack. So the point of "Pin Head" Panetta's statement is? As he pals around with Saudi leaders, whose nation was the source of 17 of 19 9/11 Highjackers. When You walk with fire, talk with fire and play with fire, you Will get BURNT by fire. Another clueless IDIOT in Hussein's arsenal of IDIOT'S soon to be FIRED!
Right. All that is left is a handful of the old top al qaida leaders left. Thier not counting the ones that have replaced them. Thats why you can't get anything done with these middle east terrorist groups. Its' like a video game. knock one down another pops up. The only way to deal with it is get out and not get involved and let it be known if you hit us. Thats when we come out of our borders and eliminate you be any means possible and then come home. This country needs to be brought home and we worry about what happens within our borders.
And what about those who created Al Qaida...when will that group of terrorists be disbanded and arrested..?
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I have to wonder what kind of propaganda al qaida recruiters use? " Come, be a suicide bomber. Be a martyr for Islam to rid the world of infidels, and assure that you get 72 virgins in the afterlife." As the peon that is being recruited, I would have to think, "if being a suicide bomber is all that great, wouldn't the al qaida leadership be lining up to blow themselves up?"
LOL ! one would think so !!!! loved your post !
LOL ! one would think so !!!! loved your post !
Seriously, they probably offer suicide bombers a great retirement plan too!
There can not be any virgins left if you count how many our troops killed. They neeed to find a new recruitment tool like 75 camels or sheep.
If any of you think that Romney will do a better job you're just delusional. He can't even verbalize what his policies would be let alone develop a strategy. I guess he's waiting to see what the Koch brothers and Norquist tell him to say. I love how conservatives on this vine will hate everything President Obama does and says but don't see a problem when their so called leaders have zero alternatives to put forth. It just points to an abysmal lack of imagination and vision from Republicans. This is not surprising since everything they always want to do is a repeat of their past foreign policy failures.
Remember, they said that it was not worth the resources to go after "one man" Bin Laden. Typical Republicans. After they botch the job, they either ignore it or make up something to say it is not important even though they said it was important before they screwed up the job.