Posted on 09/11/2009 11:30:32 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The top commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan said Friday he sees no signs of a major al-Qaida presence in the country, but says the terror group still maintains close links to insurgents.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal spoke on the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States by al-Qaida that prompted the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan.
The invasion quickly toppled the Taliban regime that had sheltered al-Qaida leaders who plotted the 9/11 attacks, but has since bogged down amid a deadly insurgency.
"I do not see indications of a large al-Qaida presence in Afghanistan now," McChrystal told reporters at the Dutch Defense Ministry, where he met military officials.
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Building the predicate for pulling out...Barack “You Lie” Obama cut-and-run ploy.
but but but ..
Obama says U.S. must renew fight against al Qaeda
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2337434/posts
there is a pelosi piece or two out there as well,, support is eroding.
the dems are cowards.. they’d rather fight
AQ here.. they did such a bangup job of it in the 90s..
A map of Afghanistan showing provinces with the highest Taliban presence. The United States warned Friday that delays in resolving troubled Afghan polls would benefit the Taliban as a vote commission warned up to half a million ballots could be investigated for fraud. (AFP/Graphic)
al Qaeda has always been dispersed in several countries worldwide. If you see numbers drop in one place you can bet they are recombining elsewhere, as they did when the pressure was on in Afghanistan and Iraq and they headed to the Horn of Africa. Give current US policy they are probably having a field day constructing training camps in South America with the help of Hugo Chavez and friends, and are probably still recovering in Africa after our last hunting expeditions there.
Is that the same ‘vote commission’ that the UN created? The same UN whose chief arms inspector Mohammed el Baradei hid documents on Iran’s nuclear program, the same UN whose officials were on Saddam Hussein’s payroll?
Define “major” and “signs.”
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