[dasboot]

Hundreds of youths belonging to such organizations as the Laskhar-i-Toiba, Jaish-i-Mohammed, Harkat-i-Jihadi-i-Islami, Harkatul Mujahideen etc, left for bases in Waziristan.

The end of AQ is near. Very near.

[dasboot]

Wahhabism will, however, keep going...and going....

[gandalftb]

They are a stubborn bunch and we have not killed enough of the first and second tier of old school muj that still run al Qaeda.

A good comparison is the Muslim Brotherhood which has been around since the 1920's and bred the likes of Zawahiri and Ramzi Yousef. After years of struggle and limited effectiveness, they had gotten political and joined the Egyptian government as did Hamas, hizb' Allah, the IRA, etc. Once insurgent organizations get political, they get beauracratized and the fighting operations get pushed to the margins.

Leadership likes it's comforts and security.