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Israel has shown that, with its effective targeted eliminations of Hamas leaders.

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Revolt Within Al Qaeda?
Aired: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 10-11AM ET

Osama bin Laden , left, and his top lieutenant Egyptian Ayman Al Zawahri, television image broadcast Sunday, Oct. 7, 2001 (AP, file)

By host Tom Ashbrook

The big news in Western media out of Al Qaeda country lately is that Al Qaeda is in trouble. That the spearhead of global terrorism is being rejected by mainstream Muslims sick of death and destruction, even rejected by onetime theorists of jihad.

New Yorker magazine reporter Lawrence Wright has gone deep on what he calls "the rebellion within," and he joins me today. Also with us, Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid, who voices skepticism on Al Qaeda's reported setbacks from the frontlines in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

This hour, On Point: Testing Al Qaeda's "rebellion within."

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I think nobody put that better than Osama himself when he was spouting about strong horse v weak horse. What percentage of military brute muscle is in the making of strong horse can be different depending on the specifics on the ground (as general Petraeus demonstrated). What is without any doubt is that opposite is true - you can’t be a strong horse if you can’t support your claim with military muscle.

Opponents of the military force usually bring a straw man of using it indiscriminately, left and right, killing everything that moves, etc. Which is stupid, of course. And our military is anything but stupid. They learned how much and where to use the force.