BWAHAHA... WT: "No safety in weaker al Qaeda" [View all]

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Oh you Washington (Moonie) Times... what mischief will you get into next?

Today's lead headline in America's most right-wing daily newspaper:

No safety in weaker al Qaeda

I guess we should have left al Qaeda strong so we'd be safe.

It's an interesting choice of headline for the story...

One year after Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden, a weakened, fragmented al Qaeda is collaborating with other terrorist and militant groups to target and attack U.S. and Western interests abroad, intelligence officials say.

Aggressive counterterrorism efforts - such as drone strikes and economic sanctions - have crippled the global terrorist network’s ability to replace competent leaders, attract recruits and plan devastating attacks, said John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism.

“Al Qaeda is losing - badly,” Mr. Brennan said during a speech Monday at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. “[But] as the al Qaeda core falters, it continues to look to its affiliates and adherents to carry on its murderous cause.”

U.S. intelligence officials who recently briefed reporters on al Qaeda said bin Laden’s death removed the terrorist group’s most effective and inspirational leader and hobbled its capacity for staging a complicated assault. But they said the threat from al Qaeda affiliates has increased.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/30/no-safety-in-weaker-al-qaeda/