Posted on 12/20/2016 8:39:49 AM PST by Lorianne
audio podcast 19:08
For more than six years, FDD’s Long War Journal has warned that official estimates of al Qaeda’s presence in Afghanistan were too low and inconsistent with publicly available evidence. Officials finally conceded earlier this year that the number of al Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan exceeds the US government’s longstanding claim.
Longstanding lowball estimate at odds with evidence. An analysis of the raids conducted between 2007 and 2013 indicated that al Qaeda and its closest allies maintained a far deeper and broader presence.
Bill Roggio, Thomas Jocelyn of the Long War Journal
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Bammy lied to is?? Say it isn’t so.
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