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| Terror Networks |
| Al Qaeda leadership reported disrupted |
| 2002-12-13 |
| U.S. military and intelligence forces have killed or captured a major portion of the al Qaeda leadership and several key successes were won in the past few months, according to CIA Director George J. Tenet. "More than one-third of the top leadership identified before the war has been killed or captured," Mr. Tenet said in a speech Wednesday. "Almost half our successes against senior al Qaeda members has come in recent months." Usually, when they say something like this, something terrible happens not long afterward... "We are still in the 'hunt phase' of this war — the painstaking pursuit of individual al Qaeda members and their cells," Mr. Tenet said. "This phase is paying off, but is manpower intensive and will take a long time. There are no set battles against units of any size. We are tracking our enemies down, one by one." That's because they're fragmented. Fragmented at this stage means disorganized. And they're not nearly the criminal masterminds they think they are. Everytime they pop their beturbanned little heads up, we can whack them. Overall, some 3,000 al Qaeda members have been detained in over 100 nations, he said, noting that the arrests have disrupted but not stopped al Qaeda operations. Additionally, efforts against al Qaeda have led to the seizure of some $121 million in terrorist-related financial assets around the world, Mr. Tenet said. That's a lot of turbans to be holding. And a lot of jack. I do hope we're keeping it, and that we're gonna throw a national beer party if this thing is ever over... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |