Al-Qaeda in Iraq, down but hardly out
http://dervishcom.blogspot.com/2011/09/al-qaeda-in-iraq-down-but-hardly-out.html
Long before U.S. officials declared al-Qaeda to be on the ropes, taking hits to the body and the head, they were making similar declarations about a more discrete enemy: the group's affiliate in Iraq. In 2008, with American forces making substantial gains in the war, the CIA's director at the time, Michael V. Hayden, pointed to a "near-strategic defeat" for al-Qaeda in Iraq.
More than three years on, there's little doubt that the U.S.-led effort to counter al-Qaeda in Iraq has vastly weakened the group. Its members now number no more than 1,000 and it lacks the ability to challenge the slowly strengthening Iraqi state.
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