Leave it to CNN to inflate, exaggerate and otherwise refabricate what was already a think-tank's pile of Barbara Streisand to begin with:
Here's an AP version of the same spin :
Report- al-Qaida Ranks Swelling Worldwide
al-Qaida Ranks Swelling WorldwideHmm. 20,000 trained prior to 2001, camps get shut down, 2,000 Jihadis captured or killed, leaves 18,000 from 2001 and earlier. This is "swelling"?