[FairOpinion]

Great article.

I think journalists should write more about our successes, as this article does.

[gcruse]

It's good to have a feel for the covert war we are waging.
Terrorism can ultimately only be defeated by fear. The wanna
be terrorist has to be so afraid of the consequences of his actions,
that the impetus to do them stops in his mind before he can
articulate it. Our revenge must be absolute, swift, and terrifying.

[eno_]

It is a good article, and while you can't count on the CIA to reveal everything, the numbers ring true. Bascially the job is to find those few thousand core Al Quaida and kill them. We now know their names and many of their faces. Soon they will all be dead.

[Shermy]

The war in Afghanistan caught al Qaeda's leaders off guard. Bin Laden's top people were convinced the United States would respond to 9/11 with merely a volley of cruise missiles, interrogations later showed.

If this is true, that is, a belief held by all AQ leaders, it undermines a theory that the 9/11 attacks were a "first strike" against a perceived threat that in the months before America was organizing an attack on the Taliban, via perhaps the 6 + 2 group.

T-ban probably saw the American threats as empty. Still doesn't explain how the assassination of Massood fits in.