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God Bless Those who Protect our Liberty
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Posted on 10/09/2003 7:52:44 AM PDT by katman
In this Special Analysis feature, Dan Darling demonstrates yet again why the CIA needs to hire him, as he takes us behind the scenes for a look at The New Al-Qaeda: the players, the setbacks, and the strategies:
"2003 has not been a good year so far by al-Qaeda. In the course of less than six months, key members of their military committee have been captured or killed as a result of the US-led campaign against terrorism. Their two biggest losses so far this year include that of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the head of their military committee, and Hanbali, the operations chief of Jemaah Islamiyyah. The network's terror theoretician, Yusuf al-Ayyeri, was killed in a gunfight in Saudi authorities. Ali Abd al-Ghamdi has been captured, and over 600 members of the Salafi Jihad have been arrested in Morocco. In addition, any number of senior commanders and mid-level leaders have been arrested worldwide since the beginning of the year, many of them since the fall of Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq.The capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed likely served as the catalyst to spur this reorganization of the terror network...."
Dan's ability to put these detailed briefings together by following the players and stitching together public media reports is deeply impressive. Today's feature fits nicely with his Oct. 9 Iraq Report media roundup on developments in Iraq, and his Oct. 9 "Winds of War" briefing re: the rest of the Global War on Terror.
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God Bless Those who Protect our Liberty
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