Any traction at all would come from Hekmatyr and the Haqqanis and Omar. There have been quite a number of Saudi's and other arabs that, knowing they are in UBL's address book, that we're reading, have headed home after finding a new religion: saving their own hides.
Our very Special Ops forces put out the party lights.
Any hope that AQ has lost is due to the loss of funds that UBL and his network used to hand out. That is what UBL had devolved into.
I wholeheartedly agree.